Daniel Libeskind

$6.6M awarded to Tree of Life synagogue, site of massacre

By MICHAEL RUBINKAMDecember 6, 2021 GMT

The state of Pennsylvania is pledging $6.6 million toward redevelopment of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, where a gunman killed 11 people in 2018 in the nation's deadliest attack on Jews.

The state funding will help “transform this site that has been marked by horror ...

Dutch king unveils Holocaust name monument in Amsterdam

By MIKE CORDERSeptember 19, 2021 GMT

AMSTERDAM (AP) — King Willem-Alexander officially unveiled a new memorial in the heart of Amsterdam's historic Jewish Quarter on Sunday honoring more than 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust, and the Dutch prime minister vowed that it would remind citizens today to be vigilant against antisemitism.

At synagogue targeted by violence, vision for transformation

By PETER SMITH, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteMay 15, 2021 GMT

PITTSBURGH (AP) — When he was working on the master plan for the post-9/11 World Trade Center site in New York City, architect Daniel Libeskind confronted a dilemma much like the one he will now face in helping revive another target of terrorist violence, the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill.