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National Holocaust Names Memorial (Amsterdam)
The National Holocaust Names Memorial (Amsterdam) (Dutch language, Dutch: Holocaust Namenmonument) is since 2021 the Dutch people, Dutch national memorial for the Holocaust and the Porajmos at Amsterdam. It commemorates the approximately 102,000 Jewish victims from the Netherlands who were arrested by the Netherlands in World War II, Nazi regime during the German occupation of the country (1940-1945), deported and mostly murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz and Sobibor extermination camp, Sobibor death camps, as well as 220 Romani people, Roma and Sinti victims. The monument founded by the ''Nederlands Auschwitz Comité'' (Dutch Auschwitz Committee) is located in the former Jewish quarter (Dutch: ''Jodenbuurt'') on a roughly north–south strip along the west side of the Weesperstraat, clockwise from the north between Nieuwe Herengracht, Weesperstraat, Nieuwe Keizersgracht, and Amstel river, east of the H'ART Museum Museum and the Hoftuin garden. with a desi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect. He is known for the design and completion of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, that opened in 2001. On February 27, 2003, Libeskind received further international attention after he won the competition to be the master plan architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. Other buildings that he is known for include the extension to the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin, the Imperial War Museum North in Greater Manchester, England, the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany, the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, Reflections in Singapore and the Wohl Centre at the Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
