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Article: Life, not death, is main focus of Amsterdam Jewish museum
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 26, 1987
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AMSTERDAM "So often when visitors, especially Americans, think of
Jewish sites in Europe, they think of concentration camps, cemeteries
and death," said Edward van Voolen.
"Those certainly exist and must be respected. But there is
life here, also. With this museum we want to say that the Jewish
community still lives. Life must go on and it is."
Van Voolen, a conservator of the newly opened Jewish Historical
Museum, was stirring his thick coffee and eating a sticky, spicy
kosher pastry in the small coffee shop-bookstore of the pristine
museum. Created out of four Jewish houses of worship dating from the
17th century, the museum is an elegant mix of post-modern steel and
glass and ...