September 11, 2024
Amsterdam’s Holocaust Memorial is made up of more than 100,000 bricks—each with the name and date of birth of every Netherlands Jew, from infants to the elderly, who was swept up after the Nazi invasion and shipped off to die in concentration camps.
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My wife and I have been visiting her family relatives in the Netherlands prior to a cruise we will be taking from Amsterdam to Rome. Last Friday, Sept. 6, one of those relatives and his wife took us to the Holocaust Memorial Monument in the heart of Amsterdam, which opened on Sept. 19, 2021. It’s next door to the Museum of the City of Amsterdam. The memorial is dedicated to “the murder of the Jews, Sinti, and Roma from the Netherlands.” And to visit it is heartbreaking.
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