AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A monument listing 102,163 Dutch victims of the Holocaust was unveiled by King Willem-Alexander in Amsterdam on Sunday, the first national memorial to be built in the Netherlands. It is the first memorial to commemorate all the victims from across the Netherlands in one place. “It gives the feeling that they really existed,” said Hetty de Roode, a Jew whose parents, brother and sister all died in the camps. De Roode, who attended the unveiling, survived by hiding with a family in the north of the Netherlands. The 15 million euro ($17.5 million) monument was funded by private donations and Amsterdam and other municipalities.

Source: MetroXpress September 19, 2021 13:52 UTC