The Hollandsche Schouwburg was officially recognized as a historic building in 1962. A few years later, the residents of the Plantage-Weesper neighbourhood decided to organize an annual event there for National Remembrance Day, 4 May. The ceremony in the Hollandsche Schouwburg on 4 May is mainly intended for and organized by people who live nearby. For instance, the victims of Nazi terror will be commemorated by a guest speaker and by students at what is now the IVKO School, who will read poems. The school was located at Plantage Middenlaan 27 until 2011 and was once a teacher training school through which many Jewish children escaped the German-run crèche.

In view of the history of this site, the ceremony normally includes several Jewish elements, such as the Yizkor (Jewish memorial prayer) and the Kaddish. At 20.00, two minutes of silence will be observed, after which the ceremony will close with the Dutch national anthem.

Programme for 4 May 2013
Starting time: 19.30

• Music: Eric Vaarzon Morel, flamenco guitarist, plays Sefardim
• Speech by Marja Vuijsje, journalist and author of the book Ons Kamp. Een min of meer Joodse geschiedenis ('Our Camp: A more or less Jewish history')
• Jedinja Michelson, student at the IVKO School, reads her poem aloud
• Music: Eric Vaarzon Morel, flamenco guitarist, plays Fandanguito
• 20.00: Two minutes of silence
• National anthem
• Wreath-laying by representatives of the Jewish Police Network
• Flower-laying by the memorial

Because the ceremony will take place on Shabbat, Yizkor and Kaddish will not be recited this year.

11.30 hrs: Forgotten Transports to Estonia (86 min)
13:30 hrs: Forgotten Transports to Poland (90 min)

When the Holocaust is mentioned, most people recall images of tattooed numbers on forearms, footage of children in striped uniforms in Auschwitz or Hitler's speeches. Dispelling our notions of a "Holocaust documentary", Forgotten Transports have none of that. Based on 400 hours of interviews recorded in twenty countries on five continents and ten years of work, each of the four films describes one destination of Nazi transports and one unique "mode of survival" in extreme conditions - told, for the first time, by Czech and Central European Jews deported to unknown ghettos and camps in Latvia, Belarus, Estonia and Poland. (Source: http://www.forgottentransports.com)

The series has won numerous awards at film festivals, including the Czech Lion Academy Award for best documentary. All four films will be shown in the Netherlands  for the first time as part of Holocaust Memorial Week 2013.

On Tuesday, January 22, the first two parts will be shown:
Forgotten Transports to Estonia
Forgotten Transports to Poland
The films have English subtitles.

Forgotten Transports contains footage that viewers may find disturbing.  The management of the Jewish Cultural Quarter recommends that children between 12-16 years should only watch the series if accompanied by an adult, who will be advised to discuss the footage afterwards.

The film screening in the Hollandsche Schouwburg has been made possible by the Czech Centre.

 

Location: Süskindzaal of the Hollandsche Schouwburg
Admission: Free on presentation of your ticket to the Jewish Cultural Quarter
More information: Email events

11.30 hrs: Forgotten Transports to Latvia (86 min)
13:30 hrs: Forgotten Transports to Belarus (90 min)

When the Holocaust is mentioned, most people recall images of tattooed numbers on forearms, footage of children in striped uniforms in Auschwitz or Hitler's speeches. Dispelling our notions of a "Holocaust documentary", Forgotten Transports have none of that. Based on 400 hours of interviews recorded in twenty countries on five continents and ten years of work, each of the four films describes one destination of Nazi transports and one unique "mode of survival" in extreme conditions - told, for the first time, by Czech and Central European Jews deported to unknown ghettos and camps in Latvia, Belarus, Estonia and Poland. (Source: http://www.forgottentransports.com)

The series has won numerous awards at film festivals, including the Czech Lion Academy Award for best documentary. All four films will be shown in the Netherlands  for the first time as part of Holocaust Memorial Week 2013.

Forgotten Transports contains footage that viewers may find disturbing.   The management of the Jewish Cultural Quarter recommends that children between 12-16 years should only watch the series if accompanied by an adult, who will be advised to discuss the footage afterwards.

The films have English subtitles.

The film screening in the Hollandsche Schouwburg has been made possible by the Czech Centre.

 

Location: Süskindzaal of the Hollandsche Schouwburg
Admission: Free on presentation of your ticket to the Jewish Cultural Quarter
More information: Email events

Every year there is a special gathering of schoolchildren in the Hollandsche Schouwburg. Elementary schoolchildren, who have prepared for the occasion with lessons at school and a visit to the monument, talk about what the Hollandsche Schouwburg means today, about the purpose of remembrance and how important it is to remember the persecution of the Jews during World War II in today's multi-ethnic society.

More information about the remembrance will be announced on this website soon.

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The Hollandsche Schouwburg was restored and established as a national memorial centre in 1962. A few years later, residents in the Plantage-Weesperdistrict decided to hold the annual memorial service in the theatre on Remembrance Day - 4 May in the Netherlands. The ceremony held in the Hollandsche Schouwburg on 4 May is especially planned for and organized by those from the immediate neighbourhood. School students from the nearby IVKO School at 27 Plantage Middenlaan (a former teacher training college attached to the day care centre from which many Jewish children were helped to escape) recite poems; a guest speaker recalls the Naziterror and those who were murdered. Each year at eight o'clock in the evening two minutes silence are observed nationwide. The remembrance ceremony closes with the singing of the Dutch national anthem.

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