The Hotel Polen fire occurred on 9 May 1977 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The conflagration destroyed the Hotel Polen (Hotel Poland), a five-story hotel in the centre of the city which had been built in 1891, as well as the furniture store on the ground level and a nearby bookstore. Many of the tourists staying at the hotel (of whom the majority were Swedes) jumped to their deaths trying to escape the flames. Upon their arrival, the fire department used a life net to help people escape, but not everyone could be saved. The incident resulted in 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries. The cause of the fire is unknown. In 1986, the Polish-born artist Ania Bien created a photographic installation based on the fire which compared it to the Holocaust.
The hotel was located between the Kalverstraat (no. 15–17) and the Rokin (no. 14), near the present day Madame Tussauds. Its place is now occupied by the Rokin Plaza, originally an office building, which today houses several fashion shops.
Rossiya Hotelfire in Moscow, Russia, 42–45 killed and 50 injured. February 27 – Moscow–Leningrad (USSR) train fire killed 17. May 9 – HotelPolenfire in...
The 2023 Makkah hotelfire occurred on May 19, 2023, when a fire took place in a hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. There were many Pakistani Umrah pilgrims...
Hotel Krasnapolsky. The hotel is referred to several times in the Swedish novel Socialisten by Ivar Lo-Johansson. HotelPolenfire Het xyz van Amsterdam...
the Centennial Exposition in 1876 Chief Architect of the Netherlands HotelPolenfire Media related to Pierre Cuypers at Wikimedia Commons "Verbouwing -...
their deaths. In all, 146 garment workers were killed in that fire. During the HotelPolenfire in Amsterdam on May 9, 1977, firefighters could not successfully...
violinist Eva-Marie Kraft. Kraft died along with 32 others in the HotelPolenfire in Amsterdam. For Organ: Te deum for 2 organs (1943) [manuscript only]...
has lived in Amsterdam. One of Bien's early projects, HotelPolen, referred to the HotelPolenfire (which became "part of Bien's wider theme of destruction")...
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40 years later, in 2017. A hotelfire killed 33 people and injured 57 others in Amsterdam when the five story HotelPolen broke out in an elevator shaft...
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the offices and the interior court. The building houses many offices. HotelPolen which burned down in 1977 (causing 33 deaths) stood at the location presently...
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