WWIIWWII - Jewish History and Dutch Experience

Building behind the boys is in the Jewish area of Amsterdam and the building was a concert hall before the war and center for Jewish deportations during WWII.

We spent most of the day at the Duutch Resistance Museum.  It explores the war using the question: how to respond to the Nazi occupation? Collaborate? Adapt? Resist? 

It explored how and why Dutch people responded in all these ways. Ir has a fantastic children's area that told the stories of 4 children. The stories were so well told that Elliott was engaged for several hours and he was the last person ready to leave.

We then visited the Portugguese synagogue,  annorthodox congregation dating from the 17h century. Both boys are wearing kappas/yarmulkes to enter the sanctuary.

Listening to audio guide stories in the sanctuary. 

Then we visited the Jewish Hisorical Miseum where they mentioned Oma's mother's family the Spanjaard textile factory in Borne. We looked for pictures of Oma's father's family but could only find him by looking at the library collection.

Thie evening we had a delicious Ethiopian dinner- the restaurant owner has a brother and sister in Minneapolis. 

Tonight we went out to Amsterdam after dark. It was quite a different vibe from he daytime city.