The government is making 15 million euros available for the renovation and renovation of the Kamp Westerbork memorial center. This is stated in the spring memorandum that was sent to the Lower House today.
The reminder center at Hooghalen has large renovation plans. The museum itself is being renewed, work is planned on the camp site and the three -kilometer path in between is also given an important function to tell the story of history. The total costs are estimated at more than 50 million euros.
The cabinet therefore contributes 15 million to this. “With the contribution, the renewal plans that the Remembrance Center presented last year can start in phases,” says the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS).
The remembrance center says it is ‘very pleased’ with the budget. “The government provides recognition for our role to pass on the memory of the Holocaust and the layered history of this place to the next generations.”
In the Second World War, 107,000 people were transported to Kampen in Germany and Poland in the Second World War, only around 5,000 of them came back alive.
“The cabinet believes it is of great importance that the story of the Holocaust and the Second World War is permanently told,” says State Secretary Vincent Karremans (VVD). “Former Camp Westerbork is one of the most tangible places in the Netherlands where the horrors of the Holocaust have taken place. That is why we feel responsible as a cabinet to keep the remembrance center accessible to coming generations.”