Playing media Transport of prisoners from Westerbork to Auschwitz, 1944. Film door Rudolf Breslauer
The Jewish Monument is a monument in the form of a website commemorating each of the approximately 101,800 Dutch Jews who became victims of the Holocaust (Sjoa) during World War II. All persons who were persecuted by the Nazis as Jews in the Netherlands during this time and who died at that time. Initiator was the political scientist and historian Isaac Lipschits. About 2000 he launched the plan to establish this monument. From April 2005, it was consulted on the internet, initially under the name Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands, continuing in a renewed format as a Jewish Monument since 2016.
The objective was derived from the Jewish tradition, which states that somebody lives as long as he is remembered, as expressed in the Tenach Book Isaiah 56: 5, "I give him an eternal name, a name that is imperishable."
As the main objectives, it was mentioned as follows:
Not only the victims killed are remembered by the Jewish Monument, educational material is also offered and encouraged research to the Jewish community in the Netherlands on the eve of deportations.
The choice for a digital monument implies that it can be visited, regardless of where one is located. The website is bilingual (Dutch and English). Sinti in Rome
One of the most important sources for the Jewish Monument was the book In Memoriam, which included all Dutch Jewish victims during World War II. In this book, too, a large number of the about five hundred Auschwitz died in Sinti and Roma, because they were initially seen for German Jews. As a result, almost 75 Sinti and Roma are listed on the Jewish Monument. Externe link
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