Amsterdam Quote by Josh Pais

I was born in Amsterdam.

— Aleister Black

My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister…

— Julie Salamon

My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an…

— David Lee

My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers…

— Elif Batuman

I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.

— Jon Stewart

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy…

— Marta Kristen

I was born in Washington, D.C., where my father was working for the Federal Trade Commission, and my mom was editor for the National…

— Joanna Going

I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors…

— Els Borst

My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the hospital there,…

— Tom Stoppard

I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University.

— Bozoma Saint John

My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and…

— Naomi Klein

I was born in Holland, Rotterdam, and lived there most of my life. I started my acting career there, but to really be successful,…

— Robert Wolders