76 years after the end of World War II, and after more than 15 years of controversy and delays concerning the site, the Dutch Auschwitz Committee and King Willem-Alexander are today unveiling the Dutch Holocaust Memorial of Names in Amsterdam:

The individual bricks bear a total of more than 102,000 names of Dutch Jews, Sinti and Roma with the dates of their birth and death engraved on them. These were the Holocaust victims who were deported to the concentration and extermination camps to be murdered by Germans. The memorial was designed by the famous artist and architect Daniel Libeskind. In Berlin Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee said:

"The decades-long struggle against complacency and the sidelining of history has been worthwhile. Thanks to the many years of tireless determination by the Dutch Auschwitz Committee and its chairperson Jaques Grishaver, the Netherlands will now have a Holocaust Memorial bearing the names of the murdered Jewish families and the murdered Sinti and Roma from that country. The memorial will carry their names into the future and constantly warn the world of what anti-Semitism, hatred and racism have already once led to."