Palestinian protesters gather as Amsterdam opens Holocaust museum
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The protest leaders emphasized they were against the Israeli president's presence, not the museum.
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland.
The protest leaders emphasized they were against the Israeli president's presence, not the museum.