by Mark Weber
After several delays, the largest and costliest Holocaust Museum anywhere is finally scheduled to open in Washington, DC, in April 1992. The "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum" will be formally dedicated on April 22, and will open to the public on April 26.
Major political figures will att the formal dedication ceremony. President Bill Clinton has been invited to speak. (As we go to press, he has not yet responded to the invitation.) Newspaper and television journalists from across the United States and many foreign countries will also be present.
The Museum is being built on federal government land by the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, a taxpayer-funded federal government agency created by Congress in 1980.
Museum construction costs are being covered by donations. So far more than $130 million has been pledged -- almost all of it from wealthy Jewish donors.
The US Holocaust Memorial Council and its friends in the media have been unable to generate widespread support for the Museum project. More
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