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.
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| 52°21′56.64″N 4°54′17.61″E / 52.3657333°N 4.9048917°E | |
| Location | Weesperstraat, Amsterdam |
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| Designer | Daniel Libeskind |
| Type | walls with four steel Hebrew characters on top |
| Material | brick, stainless steel, mirror glass |
| Length | about 80 m, area about 1,550 square meters |
| Width | about 20 m |
| Height | brick walls: 2.43 m, steel parts: up to 660 cm high |
| Beginning date | 19 June 2020 |
| Dedicated date | 19 September 2021 |
| Dedicated to | Holocaust and Porajmos victims from the Netherlands |
| Website | https://www.holocaustnamenmonument.nl/en/home/ |
| Oorlogsmonument ID 4417 (Dutch war monument ID) | |
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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.[1][2][3][4]
Design
editThe 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.[1] 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".[4]
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. [1][2]
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A brick column dedicated to the Kroonenberg family, 2021. -
A corridor between brick walls with names, 2022. -
Visitors walking around the memorial viewed from the north, 2022. -
Franco Mendes Pimentel to Carolina Frank, including Anne Frank, 2023.
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Related monuments and museum
editFurther 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.[5] 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.[6] On the internet a searchable database of all Dutch Jewish victims is available as Joods Monument (Jewish Monument).[7]
Book
edit- Wim de Wagt, Vijfhonderd meter namen De Holocaust en de pijn van de herinnering, Boom, Amsterdam, 2021. ISBN 9789024443383. In Dutch.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Holocaust Namenmonument Nederland". holocaustnamenmonument.nl. Dutch Auschwitz Committee / Nederlands Auschwitz Comité. 2021. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
King unveiled National Holocaust Names Memorial On Sunday 19 September 2021, His Majesty the King, together with Jacques Grishaver, chairman of the Dutch Auschwitz Committee, unveiled the new Holocaust Names Memorial in Amsterdam.
- ^ a b "Studio Libeskind. Dutch Holocaust Memorial of Names, Amsterdam, the Netherlands". libeskind.com. 2023. 2023. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
Situated along the Weesperstraat, an important axis within the Jewish Cultural Quarter, the Dutch Holocaust Memorial of Names is adjacent to the Hermitage Museum, East of the Diaconie's verdant Hoftuin garden and café, just a stone's throw from the Amstel River and in close proximity to important Jewish cultural institutions such as the Jewish Historical Museum and the Portuguese Synagogue.
- ^ Siegal, Nina (16 December 2016). "Holocaust Memorial Is Closer to Reality in Amsterdam". www.nytimes.com. New York Times. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
The architect Daniel Libeskind unveiled his design on Friday for a Dutch national Holocaust memorial in Amsterdam, to be laser-etched with the names of some 103,000 Jewish, Roma and Sinti residents of the Netherlands who were killed by the Nazis during World War II. The names monument will consist of four walls made of red brick — a common material in Amsterdam houses — shaped into the form of the Hebrew word "Lizkor," which translates to "in memory of."
- ^ a b "De nieuwe wand (Translation: The new wall)". niw.nl (in Dutch). NIW Nieuw Israelitisch Weekblad. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
Ruim 100.000 namen, verwerkt in het Hebreeuwse woord lizkor, 'herinneren'. ( More than 100,000 names, incorporated in the Hebrew word lizkor, 'remember'.)
with a design overview photograph demonstrating the Hebrew characters used in the memorial. - ^ "National Holocaust Museum Opens early 2024". jck.nl. Jewish Cultural Quarter. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ^ "Hooghalen, 'De 102.000 stenen'". 4en5mei.nl (in Dutch). Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei (National Committee for 4 and 5 May. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ^ "Dossier Tue 28 Mar 2017 About the Jewish Monument". joodsmonument.nl. Jewish Cultural Quarter, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 28 Mar 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
The Jewish Monument (www.joodsmonument.nl) commemorates the more than 104,000 persons who were persecuted as Jews in the Netherlands and who did not survive the Holocaust.
External links
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- 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.