Artis Amsterdam zoo

Artis Amsterdam Zoo

During the Second World War, many Jewish people had to go in hiding in fear of being detained by the Nazis. People hide in attics, cellars, farm barns and sometimes in plain sight. Hiding in places that are prohibited to be for the Jewish people like the Zoo. The Amsterdam zoo, Artis, gave shelter to many people, 300 Jewish were hiding from the Nazis in areas above the animal cages. Similar to what happen at Warsaw the zoo in Poland ( as seen in the film "The zookeepers wife" ) where Jewish people were saved from the ghetto and deportation to the Nazi extermination camps. Many people survived the war, because they were given shelter even the risks of severe punishment.

                                                              Butterfly pavillon

Here was the big cats cages. At the storerooms above these cages 

jewish people was hiding during the second world war. 

Tapir and flower

Visiting Pisa tower

pisa-tower

Johann Cruijff

Johann Cruijff football legend was born on 25 April 1947 in Betondorp (Concrete Town)- a neighbourhood Located in south east Amsterdam on a street five minutes away from the old Ajax’s stadium, his first football club.

Johan lived at De Akkerstraat 32 in Amsterdam in a part of town called Betondorp, Betondorp is social housing experiment build after the First World War using cheap materials and simple design for the working class. Nowadays its praised for its innovative approach and clean functional design making it a modernist landmark.

Betondorp was a fantastic place to play football. On the streets, before these public spaces were cluttered with cars and traffic, Johan spent as much time out of the house as possible;  playing football everywhere he could.

Here where the road passes underneath the houses Johan used to kick the ball from side to side.

 Wal painted where the former Ajax stadium: De Meer was located and which borders Betondorp, where Johan Cruijff grew up.

 Cruijff often said: “Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest.”

Cruiff in Betondorp

ART AMSTERDAM (KunstRAI) 2017

ART AMSTERDAM (KunstRAI) 2017

is the longest running art fair for modern and contemporary art in the Netherlands

Mountains trees and flowers