LONDON: The British government on Thursday approved a plan to build a national Holocaust commemoration in addition to Parliament, refusing to claim by campaigners that the location was not suitable.
The government said building a Holocaust Memorial and Learning Center at Victoria Tower Gardens, a garden in the shadow of Parliament, will send “a strong associative message.
” Memorial was announced in 2016, but the choice of location has faced opposition.
A group of campaigners argue that it will Eliminating valuable green space in the heart of the city and will be built better elsewhere.
After last year’s public question, the government said the benefits of the location exceeded the “low loss of open space ‘in the park.
The 100 million pound warning ($ 140 million) designed by leading architects David Adjaye and Ron Arad is scheduled to open in 2024 and will be free to visit.
This was intended as a focal point for England’s national warnings against 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust and all the victims of other Nazi persecution, and to provide a place to reflect on “next genocide ‘in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
Marie van der Zyl, President The British Jewish Deputies Board, said, “There will be something unique about finding a warning for the Holocaust right next to the center of the British democracy.
“While the Holocaust is a certain crime against Jews, Nazis also cruelly persecuting Rome, gay and people with disabilities, and this warning will talk to it,” he said.