On the night of 27 March 1943 a group of men in borrowed police uniforms talked their way into the Amsterdam population registry on the Plantage Kerklaan, a former concert hall across from the zoo. They overpowered the guards, moved […]
Early, before work, a woman walks her dog to the field at the end of the street. The field is empty. Halfway across she unclips the leash and the dog runs, nose down, in long loops through the wet grass. […]
In 1569 the Duke of Alba, governing the Netherlands for Philip II, asked the States General for three new taxes. The first, the Hundredth Penny, was a one-time levy of one percent on all property. The second, the Twentieth Penny, […]