(JTA) — The mayor of Chisinau, Moldova, said he would restore a landmark structure, largely destroyed during the Holocaust, as a monument to local Jews who died in the genocide.
Dorin Chirtoaca on Monday said he would restore the dome-shaped Tahara room located at one of Europe’s largest Jewish cemeteries to commemorate this year’s 70th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat, the news site of the Jurnal broadcaster reported.
“We have examples of how other synagogues and cemeteries were restored and if the Jewish community agrees, it will be gradually rebuilt,” said the mayor of the capital city of the republic, bordered by …read more
Source: JTA
