Holocaust 'Education Center' to be Built in Center City
by KYW's Jim Melwert
On this the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation introduced plans for a new building at 16th and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in center city.
Mayor Michael Nutter says the Center for Human Rights Education building won't be a museum, instead an education center reminding us of the horrors of the Holocaust:
"Because as time passes, you know that human nature allows us to forget certain things. And certainly the worst imaginable things. I'm here to say one more time, we can never forget. We can never forget."
About 30 Holocaust survivors were on-hand for the announcement, including Mariam Caine:
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