Movies

• Turks Fruit (1973, aka Turkish Delight), by Paul Verhoeven with Rutger Hauer.
• Keetje Tippel (1975), by Paul Verhoeven.
• Still smokin' (1983), with and by Cheech & Chong.
• Amsterdamned (1987).
• Zusje (1996, aka Little Sister).
• Hufters & Hofdames (1997, aka Bastards & Bridemaids).
• Siberia (1998), with Nicole Eggert (?).
• Buena Vista Social Club (1999), by Wim Wenders

Population

• 1995: 722.350
• 1996: 718.091
• 1997: 715.063
• 1998: 718.175
• 1999: 727.095
• 2000: 731.289

Source: O&S, Amsterdam (Dutch only)

Historical figures

• Anne Frank (writer)
• Johan Cruijff (football player)
• Rembrandt van Rijn (painter)
• Hendrick Petrus Berlage (architect)
• Freddie Heineken (entrepeneur)

Cultural presence

• Surinam
• Morocco
• Turkey
• Dutch Antilles
• Indonesia
• China
• Ghana
• Israel
• England
• Ireland
• United States

Historical events

• Second world war - 1940/1945
  
  From 22 February 1941 onwards, virtually the entire Jewish community [of Amsterdam] of 80,000 people was transported to concentration camps by freight train. The Nazi's victims also included many German immigrants, as Amsterdam had become a refuge from 1933 onwards for Jewish and left-wing writers and artists fleeing the German Reich. The Jewish Quarter of Amsterdam never recaptured its Jewish way of life after 1945. Just six out of every hundred Jewish Amsterdammers survived the Holocaust. The city lost over a tenth of its entire population in the concentration camps.
  
  From: Amsterdam Atlas
  
  When S.D. officer Herbert Oelschagel was murdered by the Dutch resistance on October 23, 1944 in Amsterdam, the Nazi reprisal was swift and severe. Next day, 29 civilians were arrested and pedestrians on the Apolloaan were forced at gunpoint to witness their execution. At the same time, several buildings were deliberately set on fire.
  
  From: massacres of the second world war
  
  
• El Al plain crashes on flats in the Bijlmer - 1992
  
  
• Beatrix-Claus wedding - 1966
  
  Anti-German protests marred the wedding of Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands to Claus von Amsberg, a West German diplomat
  
  From: CNN Almanac
  
  
• Ajax' European supremacy in football - 1971, 1972, 1973
  
  
• Paleis voor Volksvlijt (Palace of Popular Industry) destroyed after a fire - 1929.

Read more

• Geert Mak - Amsterdam (history, 1999, translated from Dutch)
• John Irving - A widow for one year (fiction, 1999)
• Ian McEwan - Amsterdam (fiction, 1999)
• Anne Frank - The diary of a young girl (diary, 1997, translated from Dutch)
• Simon Schama - Rembrandt's eyes (history/biography, 2000)
• Hendrik Petrus Berlage - Thoughts on style (art, 1996, translated from Dutch)
• Henk van Dorp & Frits Barend - Ajax, Barcelona, Cruyff (sports, 1999, translated from Dutch)

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