• Source: National Holocaust Names Memorial (Amsterdam)

The National Holocaust Names Memorial (Amsterdam) (Dutch: Holocaust Namenmonument) is since 2021 the Dutch national memorial for the Holocaust and the Porajmos at Amsterdam. It commemorates the approximately 102,000 Jewish victims from the Netherlands who were arrested by the Nazi regime during the German occupation of the country (1940-1945), deported and mostly murdered in the Auschwitz and Sobibor death camps, as well as 220 Roma and Sinti victims.
The monument founded by the Nederlands Auschwitz Comité (Dutch Auschwitz Committee) is located in the former Jewish quarter (Dutch: Jodenbuurt) on a roughly north–south strip along the west side of the Weesperstraat, clockwise from the north between Nieuwe Herengracht, Weesperstraat, Nieuwe Keizersgracht, and Amstel river, east of the H'ART Museum Museum and the Hoftuin garden.




Design


The memorial was designed by Studio Libeskind of the American architect Daniel Libeskind and built by Rijnboutt architects Amsterdam with bricks donated by Rodruza brick company, Rossum, Gelderland. The 1,550 square meter monument consists of four sections representing the letters in the Hebrew word לזכר (from right to left Lamedh, Zayin, Kaph and Resh, lizkor, pronunciation "lizachàr") meaning "In Memoriam".
Visitors entering the excavated area via stairs from the south or north can wander through a labyrinth of corridors between red brick walls. Inscribed on each of these 102,000 alphabetically ordered bricks is a name, date of birth and age at death of a victim. A separate wall called 1000 Names Wall of 1,000 bricks at the southern entrance was left blank to accommodate additional names of victims found later.
On top of the brick walls four huge horizontal stainless steel profiles are mounted in the shape of the four Hebrew characters. Attached elongated mirrors reflect the environment.





















Related monuments and museum


Further monuments and a museum commemorating the Holocaust are the nearby Auschwitz Monument by Jan Wolkers in the Wertheim Park to the east of the Holocaust Names Memorial, and the Dutch National Holocaust Museum at Plantage Middenlaan 27, Amsterdam, opened on 11 March 2024. At the former Westerbork transit camp (Dutch: Kamp Westerbork) in Hooghalen, Drenthe, there is the 102,000 Stones Monument (Dutch: De 102.000 stenen), with a stone without a name for each victim. On the internet a searchable database of all Dutch Jewish victims is available as Joods Monument (Jewish Monument).




Book


Wim de Wagt, Vijfhonderd meter namen De Holocaust en de pijn van de herinnering, Boom, Amsterdam, 2021. ISBN 9789024443383. In Dutch.




See also


Dutch National Holocaust Museum
List of Holocaust memorials and museums in the Netherlands




References






External links



Official website
Jacques Grishaver about the Dutch Holocaust Memorial of Names on YouTube. Video duration 2 minutes 0 seconds. Founder of the monument Jacques Grishaver briefly details the motivation for the memorial project. Holocaust Namenmonument, 31 January 2014. In Dutch with English subtitles.
Het ontwerp voor het Holocaust Namenmonument Nederland (The design of the memorial) on YouTube. Video duration 1 minute 35 seconds. A walk through the memorial. Holocaust Namenmonument, 28 February 2018.
Live stream Holocaust Namenmonument Nederland on YouTube. Live stream video affording a realtime overview. Holocaust Namenmonument, 9 September 2021.
Huijsmans, Linda; Tolenaar, Paul (Fall 2021). "Nationaal Holocaust Namenmonument onthuld". 4en5mei.nl (in Dutch). Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei (National Committee for 4 and 5 May). Retrieved 25 April 2023. Na een jarenlange strijd is op 19 september 2021 het Nationaal Holocaust Namenmonument onthuld. Alle namen zijn er vereeuwigd van de meer dan 102.000 Nederlandse Joden en 220 Sinti en Roma die weggevoerd zijn en vermoord en nooit een graf hebben gekregen. Drie generaties nabestaanden vertellen wat dit monument met hen doet.. Three generations of surviving Jewish relatives tell what this monument means to them.

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