Hollandsche Schouwburg

About the Hollandsche Schouwburg

The Hollandsche Schouwburg is the former theatre that was used by the German occupiers during World War II. The building held tens of thousands of Jewish men and women before their deportation to concentration and extermination camps. After the war, the theatre became a place of remembrance and reflection.

Jewish Cultural Quarter

In March 2024, following renovation, the Hollandsche Schouwburg reopened as a memorial site. Voices of people who were persecuted and murdered and of those who survived guide the visitor around. They talk about the theatre in the years before, during and after the war. A new work of art enhances the visitor experience at this charged place of memory.⁠

The National Holocaust Museum also opened its doors in March 2024. The museum is located across the street from the Hollandsche Schouwburg, in the building of the former Reformed Kweekschool, at Plantage Middenlaan 27

Read here why it is important that the National Holocaust Museum has been established and how you can be involved.

The Hollandsche Schouwburg, together with the National Holocaust Museum, the Portuguese Synagogue, the Jewish Museum and the Jewish Museum Junior, is part of the Jewish Cultural Quarter.