A multimedia exhibition examining how Jews pieced their lives back together after WWII in Holland has opened recently in the Joods Historisch Museum, the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.
"Out of the Shadows. Jews in the Nethermand after 1945" and "Boris Kowadlo. Photographer between Memory and Future" looks into the decisive events for Jews in post-war Holland. How did the Jewish community come to flourish once more ?
The exhibition takes the visitors from the shadow of war, via the reconstruction and coming to terms with the Holocaust, to Jewish life in the Netherlands today.
Boris Kowadlo , a Dutch-Polish photographer who died in 1959, established in the 1940s and 1950s a unique visual archive of Jewish life in this country and in Israel.
He took moving photographs of the ravaged and deserted Jewish quarter in Amsterdam and as a journalist he followed the reconstruction of the Dutch Jewish community after 1945.
The exhibition runs until 8 May 2011.
For more information, call 00 31 20 5 310 380
The Museum is located Nieuwe Amstelstraat 1 in Amsterdam.