ABSTRACT
Among the many possible incidences of heritage dissonance those relating to the management of the genocide of European Jews have a special importance. The medium-sized city of Groningen in the northern Netherlands is typical in that it had until 1941, like most commercial cities of continental Europe, a sizeable Jewish population. In the 1900 population register the two streets, Folkingestraat and Nieuwestad were respectively 61% and 55% inhabited by Jewish households. The Folkingestraat developed as a relatively cheap rent district with shops and businesses serving both the local inhabitants and the wider city in search of a Middle Eastern 'souk' shopping experience. The Jewish heritage is memorialised in the conserved synagogue, a national monument, some regular exhibitions on the vanished Jewish community and a standardised plaque marking. Foreign tourism to the City is modest in scale, and largely attracted by the seventeenth century architectural-heritage package to which the Folkingestraat has little contribution to make.
