Trip Info
Amsterdam in WW II
Duration
- 2 hours
Group size
- variable (minimum 2 adults)
Prices
- Adults € 19,- p.p. info *
- Children (age 4-12) € 9,50 p.p.
on a combination ticket: canal tour and WW II
(regular price WW II walk € 19.- and cruise € 12.- p.p.)
For online booking this combination ticket click on 'Boathouse'
(see booking below)
Extra costs for a manual whealchair: € 6,-
Departure
- at 2 PM in the Boathouse
corner Prinsengr./ Leliegr. info *
Prinsengracht and Leliegracht is located
50 mtrs. from the Anne Frank House
Booking info *
Either book the combi with the canal cruise which is mentioned on the boathouse website (click on 'Boathouse')
and pay online or pass by to book in the shop before 12 noon
on the day itself (or any day earlier).
Each tour will have only 7 to 8 participants.
At this moment there are reduced number of dates available due to ill health: no walks on Monday and Tuesday.
Michelle Steele my English collegue is doing the tour untill I am recovered.
Please call/mail the Boathouse if she is available, then you can buy your tickets before 12 AM on the day you want to walk.
Phone Boathouse: + 31 20 33 79 733
Mail Boathouse: info@boathouseamsterdam.nl
I am sorry for this inconvenience!!
Peter Schaapman
For more information please visit the website of History Walks (button HISTORYWALKS.EU)
Amsterdam
in WW II
and Holocaust Walk
Text History Walks
Experience the sights, sounds and memories of 1940-1945's Amsterdam.
Let us be your guide and bring this episode in our capitals long history alive.
Ideal for visitors looking for a tour with a difference to learn more of the cities past, this fully escorted tour seeks out the remaining tangible evidence of the German occupation combined with contemporary recordings and anecdotes passed down by those who were there.
Each walk can end in a visit to either the Resistance Museum or the Hollandsche Schouwburg (tickets for these museums are not included).
From there, it takes about 20 minutes by tram to the Boathouse nearby the Anne Frank House, the starting point of the WW II walk.
For those with a passion for history this is a tour not to be missed.
During this tour we will visit locations in the city that played an important part in the occupation during the World War Two and the persecution of the Jews.
Locations connected to the following topics will be visited, among others:
- The entry of der Wehrmacht;
- Coping with the occupation;
- The persecution of the Jews;
- The protest strike of February 1941;
- Collaboration;
- Resistance;
- The 'Winter of Hunger' of 1944-1945;
- The deadly shooting at Dam Square, May 07 1945;
- The deadly shooting at Dam Square (Movie);
- Liberated by the Canadians.
