Burgerweeshuis Amsterdam

Truus Wijsmuller-Meijer became involved in helping Jews before and during the Second World War. From 1938, when she manages to get Adolf Eichmann to allow her to organize the first transportation, she starts organizing the evacuation of Jewish children from Nazi Germany. She manages to get thousands out of the country. One of the places where she houses the children is the Burgerweeshuis on the Kalverstraat in Amsterdam.