LATRUN, Israel (AP) — Two years after Israel’s prime minister vowed to complete the establishment of a museum honoring Jewish World War II veterans, funds have dried up and an abandoned construction site is all that remains of the grand project.
“The picture is not complete if we don’t understand that together with the 6 million victims, the Jewish people also had a decisive role in defeating the Nazis,” said Yitzhak Arad, a 90-year-old former Soviet partisan fighter who blew up 16 German supply trains as a teenager during the war.
With the backing of then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the Israeli government …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
