Walled Garden is held at Location: Lloyd Hotel,
Amsterdam and my personal favourite historical fact/function: 1940 - 1989: prison The isolated location combined with the sturdy construction made the former hotel an ideal prison. The German occupier, who only days after the February strike of 1941 converted the building into a prison, recognized this. The name ‘Lloyd Hotel’ therefore would get a gruesome meaning during wartime. Initially only members of the resistance were being kept prisoners at the Lloyd Hotel. Once the place became a regular house of detention, all kinds of people served time there; people active in underground activities, short sentenced people, people awaiting their trial and after the war so-called NSB’ers (people who had co-operated with the Germans). Characteristic of detention in the Lloyd Hotel was the fact that prisoners did not have their own cell, but instead were locked together in large spaces. This was creating big problems for the house of detention’s management. In 1963 the Lloyd Hotel ceased to exist as a detention centre for adults. In 1964 the building was turned into a detention centre for juveniles. Rather than locking them up as adults in an isolated cell in those days an alternative treatment was being looked for. The characteristics of the Lloyd Hotel neatly fitted the requirements for such alternative treatment. more information: Web: http://www.lloydhotel.com/ Source image: Website Lloyd Hotel  |
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