Chai – Leven – Life Conversations with trailblazers of the National Holocaust Museum

Marc Noyons spoke with hundreds of people who want to bring this history to the present and the future and decided to contribute to the creation of the National Holocaust Museum. Among them are friends from the Jewish Cultural Quarter, CEOs, city administrators, museums and funds from the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Israel, Switzerland and the United States. This book is a tribute to everyone who contributed to the realization of the National Holocaust Museum.

‘The Holocaust is a benchmark in our national and Amsterdam history: it is an inky past that our city will not let go of. The way in which our Jewish residents, Roma and Sinti were removed from here, what it meant for their fate, what it meant for the relations in this city – that is historic and future generations must also know that.’ – Femke Halsema, mayor van Amsterdam

‘If you show the process through which this murder took place, you can understand what processes of exclusion can lead to in the most ultimate case. To genocide. As far as I’m concerned, that’s a huge warning sign. That is the core message.’ – Emile Schrijver, director of the Jewish Cultural Quarter.