The memorial was designed by Studio Libeskind of the American architect
Daniel Libeskind and built by Rijnboutt architects Amsterdam with bricks donated by Rodruza brick company,
Rossum, Gelderland. The 1,550 square meter monument consists of four sections representing the letters in the Hebrew word
לזכר (from right to left
Lamedh,
Zayin,
Kaph and
Resh,
lizkor, pronunciation "lizachàr") meaning "
In Memoriam". Visitors entering the excavated area via stairs from the south or north can wander through a labyrinth of corridors between red brick walls. Inscribed on each of these 102,000 alphabetically ordered bricks is a name, date of birth and age at death of a victim. A separate wall called
1000 Names Wall of 1,000 bricks at the southern entrance was left blank to accommodate additional names of victims found later. On top of the brick walls four huge horizontal stainless steel profiles are mounted in the shape of the four Hebrew characters. Attached elongated mirrors reflect the environment. > File:Holocaust Namenmonument - Namen (Amsterdam) - Kroonenberg.jpg|A brick column dedicated to the Kroonenberg family, 2021. File:Holocaust Namenmonument (Amsterdam).jpg|A corridor between brick walls with names, 2022. File:Amsterdam, people walking in the new Holocaust Namenmonument with its red walls of named bricks; free photo Amsterdam by Fons Heijnsbroek, 04-2022.jpg|Visitors walking around the memorial viewed from the north, 2022. File:Franco Mendes Pimentel to Carolina Frank - National Holocaust Names Memorial, Amsterdam 2023.jpg|Franco Mendes Pimentel to Carolina Frank, including
Anne Frank, 2023. ==Related monuments and museum==