AMSTERDAM - "Everyone wants to know how the Holocaust could have happened, the National Holocaust Museum to tell the story as a whole.".
That said, the Amsterdam mayor Eberhard van der Laan Sunday at the opening of the National Holocaust Museum.
The mayor suggested the Jewish community 10 million available, which can be used inter alia for the new museum and the so-called Name Wall, the Holocaust Memorial coming to Weesperstraat in the capital.
The amount of EUR 10 million for the leasehold arrears which Jewish Amsterdammers had to pay after the war over the years that they were in the camps. The municipality this money now gives back to the Jewish community.
Minister Bussemaker (Education) was also at the opening. Children from group 7 of primary school De Kraal in Amsterdam's Transvaal neighborhood told her on stage what they had learned from the Holocaust that had taken place in their neighborhood during the German occupation.
The new museum which has been debated for 25 years, is in a former training college on the Plantage Middenlaan. Here were Jewish children from a nearby day care center during the German occupation going smuggled and thus saved from prosecution.
By Editorial Telegraaf.nl/Stan Huygens Photo: Ronald Baker
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