Professor Emile Schrijver is General Director of the Jewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam, which includes the Jewish Museum, the Jewish Museum junior, the Portuguese Synagogue, the Holocaust memorial site Hollandsche Schouwburg and the National Holocaust Museum. He is also a professor of the “History of the Jewish Book” at the University of Amsterdam.
Holocaust Museums Commemorate Victims and Provide Perspective for the Future
In the summer of 2023, Amsterdam’s Jewish Cultural Quarter will open the National Holocaust Museum in the former Teacher School and the Hollandsche Schouwburg. The new museum will not only deal with the history of the Holocaust proper, but it will also show the enormous effect that it had on Dutch society, Jewish and non-Jewish alike.