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Dutch dog-walkers say no to Jewish Holocaust memorial

Amsterdam

June 4, 2015 11:24
Memorial plan: Grishaver

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Dutch residents are objecting to the construction of a Holocaust memorial in their local park.

Reasons given by a community group opposing the erection of the Dutch Holocaust Memorial of Names in Amsterdam's Wertheim Park - in the city's Jewish Quarter - include the fact that they do not want to be confronted with the victims' names every time they take the dog for a walk.

The residents also say that they have no appetite for the 200,000 tourists expected to visit the memorial each year.

There is currently no memorial in the Netherlands that lists the names of the 102,000 Dutch Holocaust victims.