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B-1080 Brussels
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European Heritage Label sites linked to Jewish history
Dohány Street Synagogue, built in the 1850s, is the largest synagogue in Europe
and the second largest one in the world. Its surroundings include a museum and
archives, a memorial for 10,000 Jewish Hungarian soldiers who lost their lives in
WWI, a garden used as a cemetery for the victims of the Holocaust as well as the
Wallenberg Memorial Park. The Dohány Street Synagogue Complex is a symbol of
integration, remembrance and openness to dialogue.
Camp Westerbork in the Netherlands served as a refugee camp for Jews
persecuted by the Nazis until 1942, and then became a transit camp from which
Jews, Roma and Sinti were deported to Nazi extermination and concentration camps
in Germany and occupied territories of Central and Eastern Europe. After World War
II, Dutch nationals suspected of collaborating with the Nazis were imprisoned in the
camp. Later, it hosted people returning to the Netherlands from the former Dutch
colony of the East Indies, among them a large group of Moluccans. A museum
(providing, among other activities, educational programmes) and monuments of
remembrance (such as the National Westerbork Memorial) can today be found on
the site of the former camp.
Former Natzweiler Nazi concentration camp and its satellite camps operated
between 1941 and 1945 on both banks of the Rhine which then belonged to the
Third Reich and is part of present-day France and Germany. In the Natzweiler
network of camps, prisoners from almost all European countries were subject to Nazi
terror. Many of the prisoners were originally resistance fighters who were exploited in
forced labour. It is today both a place of remembrance and citizen’s education.
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