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In 1983, the Concertgebouw was found to be sinking into the damp Amsterdam earth, with several inch-wide cracks appearing in the walls, so the hall embarked on extensive fundraising for renovations. Its difficult emergency restoration started in 1985, during which the 2,186 rotting wooden pilings were replaced with concrete pillars.
Amsterdam. Amsterdam a avut mereu o populație mixtă. În trecut, în capitala Țărilor de Jos s-au stabilit mulți străini: francezi protestanți, flamanzi și evrei. Atitudinea tolerantă a locuitorilor orașului era căutată de mulți imigranți. Orașul se bucurase timpuriu de libertatea cultelor religioase.
September 25, 2018. ( 2018-09-25) –. January 17, 2023. ( 2023-01-17) New Amsterdam is an American medical drama television series, based on the book Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer, that aired on NBC from September 25, 2018 to January 17, 2023, with 89 episodes over five seasons.
Occupation of Amsterdam by Nazi Germany began 10 May 1940. Amsterdam, the largest city in the Netherlands, had an estimated 75–80,000 Jews, approximately 53–57% of the country's Jewish population. Among them was the German Jewish family of Anne Frank. Approximately 25–35,000 of the Dutch Jews were refugees.
Amsterdam Publishers added their first non-art titles in 2014. Manny Steinberg’s Outcry – Holocaust Memoirs was an early commercial success. Since 2019, the publisher has focused exclusively on Holocaust Memoirs. The founder, Liesbeth Heenk, has stated that the mission of the imprint is to fight anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.
Royal Palace of Amsterdam Amsterdam, one of Europe's capitals, has many attractions for visitors. The city's most famous sight is the 17th-century canals of Amsterdam (in Dutch: grachtengordel), located in the heart of Amsterdam, have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Museums Main article: List of museums in Amsterdam Nemo museum in Amsterdam The Rijksmuseum is the national museum ...
The Anne Frank House ( Dutch: Anne Frank Huis) is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. The building is located on a canal called the Prinsengracht, close to the Westerkerk, in central Amsterdam in the Netherlands. During World War II, when the Netherlands was occupied by Germany, Anne Frank ...
