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Jerusalem museum opens 5-star hotel for Holocaust survivors

The Friends of Zion Museum is also working on a program, through which survivors will be able to celebrate their bar and bat mitzvahs at the Western Wall, ceremonies they had been deprived of due to their circumstances at the time.

by  ILH Staff
Published on  04-21-2021 13:16
Last modified: 04-21-2021 15:16
Jerusalem museum opens 5-star hotel for Holocaust survivorsYossi Zamir

Friends of Zion founder Dr. Mike Evans and Holocaust survivors at the opening ceremony | Courtesy: Yossi Zamir

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Holocaust survivors will now be able to stay in Jerusalem at a 5-star hotel built especially for them. The Friends of Zion Museum opened Monday a guesthouse for survivors to stay at free of charge.

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The project is the brainchild of museum founder Dr. Mike Evans and was built at the cost of approximately 10 million shekels ($3 million).

The guesthouse can accommodate up to 14 visitors and will be operated jointly with the Yad Ezer La-Haver foundation that works with survivors. The site includes seven units, tailored and accessible for the survivors, featuring 5-star hotel amenities including a clubroom, kitchen and dining hall, laundry rooms and warehouses.

The museum is putting together a program to be launched in the coming months, through which the survivors will be hosted for a visit to Jerusalem, lodging at the guesthouse, and will participate in an event at the Western Wall, where they will celebrate their bar and bat mitzvahs of which they had been deprived of due to their circumstances at the time.

Some 300 Holocaust survivors have already registered for the project and will be participating in it in groups this coming year. First occupants checked in this week, and on Monday, the first bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies took place at the Western Wall together with the site's chief Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz.

"I am proud and thrilled to inaugurate this guest house today," Evans said at the opening ceremony. "This home will always be open to them, and we are deeply honored to be their hosts. The Holocaust survivors are close to our hearts, and we are working hard to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive."

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