‘In a world without Holocaust survivors, one needs new ways to tell the story,’ says head of Berlin-based Friends of Yad Vashem; extension also planned in Germany’s Leipzig

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Yad Vashem has selected Munich as the site for its first Holocaust education center outside Israel, with plans for the new institution to strengthen Holocaust education and combat rising antisemitism and historical distortion in Europe.

The center will be built at Karolinenplatz in central Munich, with support from the German government, and is expected to open within three years, Yad Vashem announced Thursday.…