One and a half million knots. The new Knot Monument at the Camp Westerbork Memorial Center was unveiled today. At the entrance to the center you will see large containers containing 1.5 million knots. Each knot represents a child’s life. “Now you see how much one and a half million is as a number,” says initiator Jeroen Krabbé.
“A knot is so personal. Because you dress and undress with it,” says Krabbé. He brought the Button Monument, which is part of the exhibition ‘A suitcase full’, to Camp Westerbork. The artist and actor was born in the winter of 1944 and grew up with the consequences of the Second World War. 81 of Krabbé’s relatives were murdered, including his grandfather.
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