New Orleans Museum Unveils Liberation Pavilion, Honoring WWII Veterans and Holocaust Survivors

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New Orleans Museum Unveils Liberation Pavilion, Honoring WWII Veterans and Holocaust Survivors
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The Liberation Pavilion opened this month on the campus of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

New Orleans — On the sprawling campus of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans , the newly-opened Liberation Pavilion may be its most important exhibit hall , detailing the war's legacy and its lessons.Some of the last surviving veterans who fought for freedom attended the pavilion's unveiling last week — as was 82-year-old Eva Nathanson, a Holocaust survivor born in Budapest , Hungary . 'In 1945, somebody had turned my mother and myself in,' Nathanson said. '...

This collection can provide insight into the Israel-Hamas war in the Middle East, said museum senior historian Robert Citino. 'People need to know their history,' said Citino. 'If you don't, you can't really look to either side to know how other people got there. You're just moving ahead blindly.'Th exhibit includes relics, painful reminders and heart-wrenching accounts.

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