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Photo exhibit remembers thousands of Dutch children killed by Nazis

The exhibit, on display at the Ghetto Fighters' House museum in the western Galilee, comprises 3,000 photos of 19,000 Jewish and Gypsy children who were deported from the Netherlands and liquidated.

A photo exhibit is on display for Holocaust Memorial Day at the Ghetto Fighters' House museum in the western Galilee to remember the thousands of Jewish and Gypsy children who were deported from Holland and murdered between 1942-1945.

 

 

The exhibit includes the names of 17,964 children and youths who were slaughtered by the Nazis, details about their place and date of birth, where they lived and where they perished.

 

In addition, the exhibit will comprise 3,000 photographs of the children which will be on display.

 

 (Photo: Yaakov Madar)
(Photo: Yaakov Madar)

 

During World War II, more than 19,000 children and youths under the age of 18 were deported from Holland in 102 transport loads. Close to 18,000 of them were murdered and around 1,000 returned.

 

The exhibit was held in Amsterdam in 2012 for the first time, and since then, more than 700 names of unknown children have been added to the list, along with new details about some of them.

 

During an interview with Ynet, the curator of the exhibit, Yaara Glaor, explained how the idea was conceived.

 

“The exhibit began following a situation experienced by a 5-year-old boy in 1947 when he was travelling on a bike ride with his father after the war and arrived at the neighborhood in which all the doors were smashed,” Glaor explained.

 

“He descended his bike and asked his father where everyone was. The emptiness he was experiencing was extremely strong as he was standing in the middle of the neighborhood and asked. For years he carried that feeling with him,” she said.

 

 (Photo: Yaakov Madar)
(Photo: Yaakov Madar)

 

The boy, she continued, went on to become a famous author in Holland and presided over a project that involved compiling the names of all the children who were sent to their death.

 

“The project took him six years. He didn’t believe it would be so hard for him to find the details about the children,” Glaor continued. “In the end, of course, the full lists were in the German records, and when the manifest lists were written, three duplicate copies were made in various places.”

 

Among the photos to go on display are two brothers, who were aged 3 and 5 when they were murdered by the Nazis, of Fred Altman, a Holocaust survivor

 

In an emotional interview with Ynet, he said that he is unable to visit Holocaust memorial museums such as Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

 

“Yad Vashem is for my children and grandchildren, not for our generation. My way is to turn off the television in the evening of memorial day,” Altman said.

 


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