Nationaal Holocaust Namenmonument
Nationaal Holocaust Namenmonument stands in Amsterdam’s former Jewish quarter, near Weesperstraat and other places of Holocaust remembrance. Red brick walls create a labyrinth of passages, while four sections form Hebrew letters when viewed from above.
The memorial commemorates approximately 102,000 Jewish victims from the Netherlands and 220 Roma and Sinti victims murdered during the Holocaust. Each brick carries a victim’s name, birth date, and age at death, arranged alphabetically across an area of about 1,550 square metres. Designed by Studio Libeskind and built by Rijnboutt, the site opened in 2021 as the Netherlands’ national Holocaust and Porajmos memorial.
Four horizontal stainless steel profiles rise above the walls, carrying elongated mirrors that reflect the sky and surrounding streets. At the southern entrance, the One Thousand Names Wall holds 1,000 blank bricks for names that may be discovered in the future.
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