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Bảo tàng Holocaust mới khiến Hà Lan đối mặt với quá khứ đen tối
06 Mar, 2024
tổ chức mới ở Amsterdam là cơ quan đầu tiên kể toàn bộ câu chuyện về cuộc đàn áp người Do Thái của Hà Lan trong Thế chiến thứ hai
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Three faces stare blankly from sepia-toned passport photos, haphazardly pasted (dán bừa bãi) onto a card to an unknown recipient (người nhận). They are probably two parents and their son, but we’ll never know for sure. Under their pictures are the handwritten words: “Don’t forget us!”
It’s unclear when this card was sent. But its plea has helped shape the permanent collection at the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, which opens to the public next week. The new institution has been in the works for almost 20 years, during which time the project overcame persistent skepticism partly driven by hesitance at facing this part of Dutch history.
While other museums in the Netherlands cover aspects (khía cạnh) of the history of the Holocaust — such as the Anne Frank House, or museums that focus on World War II more broadly — the National Holocaust Museum is the first institution devoted (tổ chức đầu tiên tận tâm) to telling the full story of the persecution (áp bức) of Jews in the Netherlands.
In the Netherlands, the Nazis deported 75 percent of the country’s Jewish population to concentration camps, the highest such percentage in Western Europe. The new museum aims to answer the question of how such a large group of people — 102,000 Jews, but also 220 Romani people, also known as Roma and Sinti — could be removed from their daily lives, and what those lives looked like before and, if they survived, after the war.
At the very end of the collection, which also includes video testimonies (lời chứng) by survivors as well as pictures and videos from extermination camps (trại diệt chủng), visitors finally encounter those passport photos of the three anonymous people who asked to not be forgotten, but whose names were lost to history regardless.
The museum used that imperative — “remember us!” — as part of its own message, said Gringold, the curator. By the time a visitor faces these three individuals (cá nhân), it’s almost impossible not to remember.
source: nytimes,
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