The ‘Jewish Resistance Monument’ came about at the initiative of the ‘Jewish Committee for Jewish Resistance 1940-1945’, founded by Jewish resistance fighters, and initiated by one of the members of the Jewish fight club, Bennie Bluhm. During the statue’s inauguration (in 1988), Ed van Thijn, the former mayor of Amsterdam, expressed his grief that a monument was needed to uphold the memory of Jewish resistance.
- What do you think, are instances of Jewish resistance during the Second World War well-known nowadays?
- Is this monument still needed to remind us of acts of Jewish resistance?