05.06.2011                      3.Siwan, 5771                      Tag 47 des Omer

Sobibor-Museum:

Poland says it will reopen Nazi death-camp museum

Government announces museum's reopening a day after closing due to lack of funds; Poland to step in as of January 2012.

The Polish government on Friday announced it would reopen a museum at the former Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor, which closed the day before for lack of funding.
Museum spokesman Mark Bem announced the museum, which relied on funding from philanthropists and local government, had shuttered because it could not pay annual costs of $361,000….