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Global NewsManchester abandons plan for new Holocaust museum05 March 2008 Plans to build a museum in memory of victims of the Holocaust in the northern English city of Manchester, have been abandoned, according to the ‘Manchester Evening News’newspaper. Some of the estimated US$ 1 million already raised to fund the project will now be used to pay for a new lecturer's post on Holocaust Studies at Manchester University, the paper reports. Trustees for the project have said that building costs have forced ambitious plans for the center, designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind, to be put on hold. Bill Williams, the driving force behind the center and a part-time lecturer at the university's Centre for Jewish Studies, was quoted by the newspaper as saying: "The trustees decided this was the best option and most in keeping with what the center was going to be about: to widen knowledge of the Holocaust and the lessons of the Holocaust”. |
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