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In early 1941 there was a conviction that all Jews had to register.

There were signs “forbidden for Jews” and signs “Jewish Quarter”.

This condemnation aroused much anger. The illegal newspapers was fiercely argued against here. The way the liability (a division of NSB) this conviction upheld went all limits to outside. There were smashed in the “Jewish Quarter” windows, ransacking and people mistreated by the WA.

On February 10, it came to a confrontation between the WA and Jewish thugs. After this, the Jewish quarter was completely sealed off. On 22 February, 425 Jewish men arrested in retaliation and taken to the Mauthausen death camp .. This was the reason for the large and massive “February strike” a grand protest of the Amsterdam population against these atrocities.

This is annually commemorated by the statue of the Docker.

After the war, the horrible truth about the destruction urged camps only well. The Jewish quarter (the Jewish neighborhood) was empty, the houses that were vacated were looted by the German occupying forces demolished or instigated in the cold winter of 1944. And of the Jewish population has just returned a bitter small part. They were gone, those traders, street trading, the crowds. It was quiet in the neighborhood. The wederopbouwwet of 1950 has begun to make the neighborhood inhabitable again .. It would take many years before near a habitable received appearance again, the Nieuwmarkt riots, the opposition to the construction of the subway and the City Hall building caused a lot of commotion.