For six days and five nights, hundreds of Dutch read the names of all 102,000 Jews sent from the Netherlands to extermination camps - live • "It's not just a number"

The Westerbork Commemoration Center, a Nazi forced-labor camp during World War II in the Netherlands, launched an exciting initiative: Starting yesterday (Wednesday) and for six days and five nights, 116 hours in a row, public figures, students and citizens will read the names of all 102,000 Dutch Jews sent to the death camps.

The initiative explains: "Of the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust, 102,000 came from the Netherlands. They died unnamed in Auschwitz, Sobibor, Theresienstadt, Bergen-Belsen and all those other horrible places. 102,000 times a unique person was murdered, with a name and face. "102,000 is not a number, it's 102,000 fathers, mothers, grandparents, brothers, nieces and friends."

As mentioned, the name-calling is carried out non-stop for six days and five nights, exactly where the trains left Westerbork camp to the extermination camps. The names are mentioned in alphabetical order, first name, last name and age of each victim. The names are based on data from the A Name and A Face database of the Westerbork Memorial Center. Tonight (Thursday) was also named Anna Frank.

Who joined the initiative is the Dutch television station NOS, which broadcasts live commemoration on the Internet, can also watch the live broadcast on the memorial website Facebook. The project arouses great interest in the Netherlands, alongside numerous reports of the Dutch king, Willem Alexander, in Israel on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.