Dutch Jews

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Dutch Jews are the Jewish population of the Netherlands, historically centered in cities like Amsterdam and tragically decimated during the Holocaust.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Dutch Jews canonical 2
Jewish community of Amsterdam 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (76)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish community
ethnoreligious group
citizenship often Dutch citizens
contributedTo Dutch literature
Dutch music
Dutch philosophy
Dutch politics
Dutch visual arts
country Netherlands
culturalInstitution Auschwitz Monument Amsterdam
Hollandsche Schouwburg memorial
Joods Historisch Museum
surface form: Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam

National Holocaust Names Memorial
Portuguese Synagogue Amsterdam
currentPopulationApproximate 30000–50000
deportationFrom Amersfoort camp
Vught
surface form: Vught concentration camp

Westerbork transit camp
deportationTo AuschwitzBirkenau
surface form: Auschwitz concentration camp

BergenBelsen
surface form: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Sobibor
surface form: Sobibor extermination camp

Theresienstadt concentration camp
surface form: Theresienstadt ghetto
diasporaDestination Canada
Israel
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
experiencedEmancipation 19th century Netherlands
grantedFullCivilRights 1796
heritageSite Beth Haim Jewish cemetery
surface form: Beth Haim cemetery Ouderkerk aan de Amstel

Joods Cultureel Kwartier
surface form: Jewish Cultural Quarter Amsterdam
historicalOriginAshkenazi Central Europe
Eastern Europe
historicalOriginSephardi Iberian Peninsula
languageHistoricallySpoken Dutch
Hebrew
Portuguese
Yiddish
mainCenter Amsterdam
Rotterdam
The Hague
Utrecht
mainDenomination Liberal Judaism (UK)
surface form: Liberal Judaism

Masorti movement
surface form: Masorti Judaism

Orthodox Judaism
mainOrganization Centraal Joods Overleg
Nederlands-Israëlitisch Kerkgenootschap
Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam
surface form: Portugees-Israëlitische Gemeente Amsterdam

Verbond voor Progressief Jodendom
majorSubgroup Ashkenazi Jews
Sephardi Jews
memorialDayObserved Remembrance Day (Dodenherdenking)
surface form: Dutch National Remembrance of the Dead

Yom HaShoah
notableFigure Baruch Spinoza
Henri Polak
Jacques Presser
Job Cohen
Jonas Daniel Meijer
Max Tailleur
Menasseh ben Israel
notableProfessionTraditionally commerce
diamond trade
finance
printing
notableVictim Anne Frank
Etty Hillesum
persecutionBy Nazi Germany
persecutionPeriod 1940–1945
postWarPopulationSignificantlyReduced true
preWarPopulationApproximate 140000
proportionMurderedInHolocaust high
religion Judaism
significantEvent Holocaust in the Netherlands
significantMigrationPeriod 16th century
17th century
19th century
subjectToAntiJewishMeasures Nazi occupation of the Netherlands

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lodewijk Asscher ethnicGroup Dutch Jews
Merwedeplein 37, Amsterdam associatedWith Dutch Jews
this entity surface form: Jewish community of Amsterdam