News item | 04-12-2023 | 10:00
The National Holocaust Museum will receive an additional two million euros in subsidy from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science for the development and operation of the new museum. This is in addition to the 5.6 million subsidy that the museum has already received from the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in the period 2019-2023. Due to rising construction costs, the Jewish Cultural Quarter, which is developing the National Holocaust Museum, has requested an additional contribution.
The National Holocaust Museum will open on March 11, 2024 in a historic building, the former Hervormde Kweekschool in Amsterdam. During the Second World War, the Nazis used the adjacent Crèche as a collection and deportation place for Jewish children. Director Henriëtte Pimentel helped hundreds of them escape, also through the Training School.
The National Holocaust Museum focuses on the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands. The focus is on the steps leading up to the mass murder and the experiences of those persecuted. The Netherlands is one of the few European countries that does not yet have a Holocaust museum.