A New York Holocaust museum broke ground Thursday for a $60-million expansion that will more than triple its exhibition and teaching space and showcase survivor testimony compiled by Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation. The Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust opened in downtown Manhattan in 1997 and depicts Jewish life before, during and after the Holocaust.
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