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Philly Holocaust Memorial Will Update Itself with a New Mural

By Peter Crimmins | WHYY
Published May 14, 2023 at 1:38 AM EDT
Eszter Kutas, executive director of the Philadelphia Holocaust Memorial Foundation, stands in the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza, at the triangle of 16th Street, Arch Street, and the Parkway.
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Eszter Kutas, executive director of the Philadelphia Holocaust Memorial Foundation, stands in the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza, at the triangle of 16th Street, Arch Street, and the Parkway.

Philadelphia’s Holocaust Memorial Plaza, in Center City, is looking to update the way it remembers the atrocity suffered by Jews during World War II. WHYY’s Peter Crimmins reports on a new mural project meant to make the Holocaust more relevant to contemporary audiences.

Read the full story here.

(Original air-date: 5/4/23)
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