There is one wall in the Dutch Pavilion in Auschwitz with 60,000 names of Dutch people who were murdered in Auschwitz. This inconceivable number of names demonstrates in a single glance the extent of the atrocities that took place. Everyone who
visits the Dutch Pavilion experiences the overwhelming effect of this wall. The possibility to touch a name and say it out loud makes a deep impression on surviving relatives and everyone who visits the wall.
The Netherlands does not yet have such a place of remembrance.
The Dutch Auschwitz Committee is making great efforts to have a similar wall of names built in Amsterdam. A wall of names makes it crystal clear what it means to murder 110,000 individual people. This wall of names would symbolise a grave for all those people who were murdered and do not have a proper resting place. The old Jewish centre of Amsterdam is the most appropriate place and would do utmost justice to such a monument.
This part of the city includes several places that keep the memory of the war alive, such as the Mirror Memorial ‘Auschwitz Never Again', in the Wertheim Park, the Resistance Museum, the Hollandsche Schouwburg, and the statue of the Dokwerker. All
these monuments will reinforce each other by adding this Wall of Names.
Support this initiative by signing the petition on http://www.namenwand.nl/.