Three-quarters of the Dutch Jewish population – 102,000 people – were killed by the Nazis during the second world war, the highest proportion in western Europe. But, unlike some other countries, the Netherlands has never had a national museum devoted to those horrors. That will change on Sunday when, eight decades after the second world war and in the presence of the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, the Dutch king, will open the country’s first Holocaust museum on the site of a creche and former teaching college where 60,000 children were smuggled to safety. “We will give these weighty national events,...