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ABSTRACT
Amsterdam’s National Holocaust Museum is due to open in March 2024. It is the first and only museum to tell the story of the attempt by the Nazis to eradicate Jews from the Netherlands, a history of segregation, persecution, and murder. Yet the story is also one of rescue, survival, and solidarity. One of the museum’s main goals is to engage visitors by involving them in a learning experience, in particular, to encourage young people to study and to develop the skills they need to be able to understand the past, to see how this impacts the present, and to recognize and challenge discrimination and antisemitism today. This article begins by sketching the presentation in the new museum and examines how the museum’s educational facilities (presentation and programs) encourage audiences to think about what they can do to combat discrimination in general, and antisemitism in particular.
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Julia Sarbo
Julia Sarbo is an educator and historian in the Jewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is responsible for the educational programs and activities at the National Holocaust Museum and the memorial Hollandsche Schouwburg, the former deportation place in Amsterdam. She earned her MA in history and education at the University of Groningen and worked for the Anne Frank House and the National Committee on May 4 and 5 that organized the Dutch National commemoration of the Second World War.