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The Raamgracht is a canal and street in the center of Amsterdam. The canal runs from the Kloveniersburgwal to the Zwanenburgwal. The Groenburgwal, Verversstraat and Zanddwarsstraat all lead to the Raamgracht. The name of the canal recalls the textile industry that dominated this area in the Middle Ages, when it was still outside the city. Here lay cloth mills, where the woolen fabric, after washing, carding, spinning, weaving and dyeing, was stretched onto wooden frames for stretching. The Verversstraat, among others, also reminds of this textile industry. In the 17th century, the cloth dyers moved to the Bloemgracht in the Jordaan. The Raamgracht used to be located in the middle of the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam. During the Second World War, many Jewish residents of the Raamgracht were deported to the concentration camps and did not survive the war. The weekly magazine Vrij Nederland has been established for many years in a monumental building from 1914 at Raamgracht 4, on the corner with the Kloveniersburgwal. Weekpladpers (owner of Vrij Nederland) and other Weekbladpers magazines such as Opzij and Hollands Diep are also located at Raamgracht 4. The journalist Igor Cornelissen wrote the book Raamgracht 4 about his time as editor of Vrij Nederland in the 1960s. Salomon Meijer painted the Raamgracht. This painting was purchased by the government in 1957 on the occasion of his 80th birthday. There was a Raamgracht in The Hague that was filled in around 1850. There was also a Raamgracht in Haarlem, now the Gedempte Raamgracht. page: 493 pages, index, photos b / w
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