(Jewish Group) Amsterdam's latest Holocaust memorial features the names of 102,000 victims

Amsterdam has a new Holocaust memorial that contains over 100,000 names of Dutch Holocaust victims and was designed by the famed Jewish architect Daniel Libeskind.

The Holocaust Memorial of Names, unveiled Sunday where it stands near the city’s Jewish Cultural Quarter, is made up of separate walls of bricks with the names of individual victims on them.

Mayor Femke Halsema, who attended the unveiling along with Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Dutch King Willem-Alexander, issued an unusual order banning neighbors from watching the unveiling from their balconies, and ordered all windows and terraces facing the square remain shuttered for security and “public order” reasons.

Relatives of victims commemorated at the monument said they were relieved to see it unveiled.



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