The project seeks to refine archaeological understandings of the material expressions of ethnicity, status, gender, and religious beliefs in relation to the Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jewish inhabitants and other residents of the Vlooienburg. The project will also, significantly, enhance contemporary public understandings of the multi-ethnic roots of Amsterdam. The project is timely, as in 2016, the City of Amsterdam, office for Monuments and Archaeology will begin a new project to re-evaluate and complete the analysis of materials excavated in 1980-81 ahead of the construction of the Stopera.