ABSTRACT
‘Not only is the entire Jewish community sitting there in card indexes, it’s also registered in the heads of the people who earn their living in these offices. The community is so small that every member of it is known, directly or through acquaintances, to one of the sixty office workers in the street.’ Max Snijders, later a famous journalist, made that observation about the Johannes Vermeerstraat in Amsterdam in 1958. He was not exaggerating; many Jewish institutions had their offices in that street in Amsterdam‐Zuid and many Jewish youth movements came together there too.
