September 14, 2025: European Day of Jewish Cultural Heritage 2025 in The Netherlands

Participating locations
The asterisks refer to further explanations that can be found at the bottom of the full program.

AMERSFOORT

New Memorial Monument Amersfoort: Light of Remembrance*
Address: Borneoplein
Guided tour and explanation by artistic designer Tamar Frank
Time: 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

AMSTERDAM

Jewish Cultural Quarter

Auditorium Jewish Museum (Nieuwe Amstelstraat 1, Amsterdam)

Lecture by Prof. Emile Schrijver: “People of the Book.”
Time: 2 p.m.

Registration required via: https://jck.nl/agenda/lezing-volk-van-het-boek

Please bring your museum card or Friends Lottery card and have it scanned at the ticket office.

Ets Haim – Livraria Montezinos (Portuguese Synagogue, Mr Visserplein 3, meet at the ticket office of the Portuguese Synagogue)

Lecture by Heide Warncke: “Crocodiles, matzos, and Kabbalah – the Haggadah through the centuries.”
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Registration required via: https://jck.nl/agenda/lezing-de-haggada-door-de-eeuwen-heen (FULL)

Please bring your museum card or Friends Lottery card and have it scanned at the ticket office.

Mokumse Geniza **
Lectures on ancient religious books and their stories by Channa Kistemaker
Times: 11:00 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
Location to be announced after registration.

Please register in advance at: channakistemaker@gmail.com

Old Jewish Cemetery Zeeburg
Address: Valentijnkade 124, 1095JL Amsterdam
Continuous guided tours
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

JOMA
Address: Brouwersgracht 49 1015GB Amsterdam
Time: 12:00-17:00

DEVENTER

Jewish Cemetery Deventer
Address: Diepeveenseweg 80, 7418 AS Deventer
Guided tours
Times: 13:00, 14:30, and 16:00.

Etty Hillesum Center
Address: Roggestraat 3, 7411 EP, Deventer
Open for free visits
Times: 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

GOUDA

Metaheer House***
Address: Teixeira de Mattoshof, 8 (behind Oosthaven 31)
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Continuous guided tour and lecture: the history of Jewish Gouda, mainly about the Jewish retirement home and the monuments to Jewish war victims.

Guided city walk
Address: Starts at Teixeira de Mattoshof, 8 (behind Oosthaven 31)
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Passing by: Synagogue, Stolpersteine, and other relevant places in the historic heart of Gouda

Museum Gouda
Address: Oosthaven 9, 2801PB Gouda
Time: 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
The exhibitions ‘Believing in Gouda’ and ‘Edith, an ordinary girl from Gouda’ are free to visit.

GRONINGEN

Synagogue
Address: Folkingestraat 60, 9711 JZ Groningen
Guided tours of the synagogue are available every hour on the hour.
Themed exhibition: From Remembering to Commemorating is open to visitors.
Explanation of the exhibition (2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., approx. 45 minutes)
Times: 12:00-17:00

City walk
Guided tour of the Jewish quarter, approx. 1 hour.
Times: 13:00 and 15:00
Meet at the synagogue

LEEK

Former Jewish School
Address: Samuel Leviestraat 10, 9350 AE Leek
Times: 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Explanation of the function of the Jewish school

MIDDELBURG

Synagogue
Address: Herenstraat 14, 4331 JT Middelburg,
Times: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
At 2:00 p.m.: Lecture on the history of the Middelburg Jewish community and the synagogue.

Zeeuwse Concertzaal
Address: Verwerijstraat 14, 4331 TC
Celebration in honor of the 3rd anniversary of the Etty Hillesum House: “An ode to Etty”
Time: 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Program:
Concert by flutists Eleonore Pameijer and Henriëtte Bosmans and pianist Tobias Borsboom: playing music by composers persecuted by the Nazis: Leo Smit, Dick Kattenburg, and Mischa Hillesum (see also www.leosmit.org)
Singer Sarà Gutvill with pianist Maarten Hillenius, singing songs by composer Leibu Levin, among others.
Lecture by writer Judith Fanto, “Living between the lines”

OVERVEEN

Old Jewish Cemetery
Address: Tetterodeweg 13, 2051 EG Overveen
Times: 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., continuous guided tours

TIEL

Jewish cemetery “Bet Olam”
Address: Voor de Kijkuit 7, 4001 HG Tiel
Program in honor of the rededication of the Metaheerhuisje** at Beth Olam in Tiel:
12:30 p.m. – presentation of the restored Metaheerhuisje to Alderman Frank Groen
12:50 p.m. (immediately following) – introduction by art historian Peter Schipper on the (neoclassical) characteristics of the building
1:10 p.m. (immediately following) – presentation of the redesigned exhibition in the metaheerhuisje
Immediately following – guided tour of the Jewish cemetery with an introduction to the new information signs
Continuous tours and demonstration of the maintenance and restoration of matsevot (gravestones)
3:30 p.m. – walk ‘Discover Jewish Tiel’ (if there is sufficient interest) starting at the Jewish cemetery

TILBURG

Synagogue
Address: Willem II Straat 20, 5038 BG Tilburg
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Guided tours plus explanations in the synagogue

WIERINGERMEER

Jewish Work Village Museum
Address: Nieuwesluizerweg 42, 1774 PE Slootdorp
Exhibition: open all day
Times: 11:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., at which times a guide will be available to provide explanations.

WINSUM

Former Synagogue
Address: Schoolstraat 24, Winsum
Exhibition in words and images: 30 years of the “Een Joodse Erfenis Winsum” Foundation 1995-2025
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

ZUIDLAREN

Synagogue Zuid Laren
Address: Zuiderstraat 1, 9471 KJ Zuidlaren
Guided tours of the synagogue, Jewish book market, and Shabbat table with explanations
Time: 11:00 a.m.

ZWOLLE

Synagogue
Address: Samuel Hirschstraat 8, 8011 PT Zwolle

2:00 p.m. Lecture by Prof. Eric Ottenheijm “From story to story. Jewish parables as intangible heritage”

3:00 p.m. Lecture by Shaja Groenewoudt: “People of the Book? No! The Torah that was not allowed to be written down”

4:00 p.m. Guided tour of the synagogue

Both lectures are free to attend.

Further explanation for some locations

* Amersfoort
Amersfoort Memorial Monument: Light of Remembrance
A special design by artist Tamar Frank.
On the date of death of each victim—and the evening before—a light burns in the corresponding cube. On May 4, during Remembrance Day, and on January 27, during Holocaust Memorial Day, all the lights burn. In this way, the memory of the victims lives on daily in the monument. The beacon in the pond always burns, symbolizing eternal light.

**Amsterdam
The Mokumse Geniza Foundation
The Mokumse Geniza Foundation was established by Channa Kistemaker in 2017.
The People of the Book have a deep reverence for their religious books. They often last for generations, and when they can no longer be used, they are buried. Or they are stored in a quiet place to slowly decay into dust. The caves of Qumran were such a quiet place. Think also of the famous Geniza of Cairo, where centuries later, fragments of old parchment revealed secrets about Jewish life in the Middle Ages.
At home, Channa collects old religious books in which generations before us have left their mark, bearing witness to who they were and what their Jewish lives were like. Often, they are the only tangible remnants of people who were murdered during the Shoah.

*** Gouda and Tiel
* A Metaheerhuis –Beet Tahara, House of Purification, is a building where Jews are taken when they die. There, while prayers are recited, they are ritually washed, dressed, and laid in a wooden coffin.

Gouda

The Metaheerhouse is no longer in use as such, but has been converted into a memorial and makes an important contribution to preserving the memory of the Jews of Gouda who were killed during the war years.

Tiel

Official rededication of the metaheer cottage on September 14, 2025:
12:30 p.m.: presentation of the restored metaheer cottage to Alderman Frank Groen (responsible for the maintenance of the Jewish cemetery) and Coen Abram, representative of the owner of the Jewish cemetery, the NIK. Also present will be the owners of the construction company ‘Aanpak Bouw en Riool’, which was responsible for the restoration, and several native Tiel residents who survived the Shoah.