5 German Firms Each Give $1.1 Million to Israel's Holocaust Memorial

(AP-Miami Herald) Five German companies are donating 1 million euros ($1.1 million) each to Israel's Yad Vashem memorial for the development of the "Shoah Heritage Collections Campus," to preserve, catalog and store Holocaust-related artifacts. They include soccer club Borussia Dortmund, Daimler automotive corp., railway operator Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Bank and Volkswagen. The memorial has collected more than 210 million documents, 500,000 photographs, 131,000 survivor testimonies, 32,400 artifacts, and 11,500 works of art.


2019-04-04 00:00:00

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