Memorial · Amsterdam · Updated on 1 November 2026.

Memorial Levensboom in Amsterdam

Levensboom is a memorial in Amsterdam, North Holland. This place has a story in the app. Within 280 m you'll find a water point, a bench and a public toilet.

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Memorial Levensboom in Amsterdam, photo 2

The story

Story · Levensboom

You're standing at the Tree of Life, the Monument of Awareness, on Surinameplein in Amsterdam-West. It also has a Surinamese name: Bon Fu Gron Prakseri. The monument remembers the history of slavery and its abolition. And it stands for the bond between the countries that were part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Henry Renfurm designed it, and it was unveiled on the 30th of June 2003.

Read the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).

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