Netherlands opens Holocaust museum

AMSTERDAM — The Netherlands opened the National Holocaust Museum on Sunday with a ceremony presided over by the Dutch king as well as Israeli President Isaac Herzog

The museum tells the stories of some of the 102,000 Jews who were deported from the Netherlands and murdered in Nazi camps, as well as the history of their persecution under German occupation.

The museum “gives a face and a voice to the Jewish victims of persecution in the Netherlands,” the Dutch King Willem-Alexander said at the inaugural ceremony on Sunday.

“That is why we must continue to be aware of how things began and how they went from bad to worse,” the king said.

Herzog hailed the Netherlands’ creation of the museum amid what he called rising antisemitism around the world.

“At this pivotal moment in time, this institution sends a clear powerful statement,” Herzog said. “Remember! Remember the horrors born of hatred, antisemitism, and racism, and never again allow them to flourish.”