April 1



USA//INDIANA:

Holocaust museum to reopen


A Holocaust museum in Indiana that was destroyed by fire is reopening.

The CANDLES Holocaust museum in Terre Haute is slated to reopen Sunday.
The 4,500-foot museum (its formal name is the Children of Auschwitz Nazi
Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors) was housed in a former print shop in a
strip mall on a busy highway. Run by Eva Kor, a survivor of genetic
experiments conducted by Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz, it mostly
educated local school children about the horrors of the Holocaust.

In November 2003 someone broke into the museum after hours, set it ablaze
and scrawled "Remember Timmy McVeigh" on an exterior wall, a reference to
the Oklahoma City bomber who killed 168 people in 1995 and subsequently
was executed in a federal prison in Terre Haute.

(source: JTA)