Digital Monument honors Dutch holocaust victims
The Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands is a website set up to preserve the memory of all those who were persecuted as Jews in the Netherlands during the Second World War and who did not survive the Shoah. The Digital Monument is an initiative of the late Professor Emeritus Ies Lipschits, but the responsibility for it was transferred to the Jewish Historical Museum.
Each individual has been given his or her own personal page to which photographs, documents and biographical information can be posted. The Monument also helps surviving relatives to explore their roots and visitors to the website are invited to send in corrections to any mistakes and to provide any additional information they may have.
The home page has been designed to look like a real monument to commemorate all those whose names are included in the Digital Monument. Every coloured dot stands for one person. The colours indicate whether the person was a man (blue) or woman (red), a boy or girl between 6 and 21 years of age (green and yellow, respectively) or a child under 6 years of age (light blue or pink). Clicking a dot opens the personal page of the person concerned.
Members of the same family have been placed together. For most of the families, addresses are known. Clicking on a family’s address will take you to the address page for that family. To the left and right you will see the Jewish families who lived closest to them. Clicking on the address of one of the ‘neighbours’ will take you to that family. In this way you can take a virtual walk down the street or through the neighbourhood, village, or city.
The page of Ruth Emilie Sollinger lists several of her personal documents from the Documents Collection of the Jewish Historical Museum. You can also go on a virtual tour of the house of the Jewish De Jongh family lived at 133 Spanjaardslaan in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden, before their deportation to Auschwitz in November 1942 where all family members died. The virtual tour allows you to roam through the empty rooms, and provides an overview of all objects that were listed in an inventory before being removed by the Nazi’s.
Go to The Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands
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