Saturday, October 02, 2021

The NEW Netherlands National Jewish Holocaust Monument

"A new memorial honouring the more than 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust was unveiled on Sunday by King Willem-Alexander.

Designed by Polish-Jewish architect Daniel Libeskind, the Memorial of Names stands in the city's Jewish Quarter. It presents every victim's name, date of birth and age when they died inscribed on a brick in one of several walls.

The walls themselves are shaped to form four Hebrew letters, spelling out a word that translates as “In Memory Of.”

Before the Holocaust there were around 140,000 Jews living in the Netherlands. By the war's end, more than two thirds of the country's Jewish population had been murdered by the Nazis."








This was obviously a very sobering and somber place.  I shared grief with family members as they sought out their loved ones bricks.  Walking through the memorial you can't help but be touched.