5 German firms each give $1.1 million to Holocaust memorial
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Five well-known German companies, including the country's only publicly traded soccer club, are donating 1 million euros ($1.1 million) each to Israel's Yad Vashem memorial for the development of a facility to preserve, catalog and store Holocaust-related artifacts.
Borussia Dortmund managing director Carsten Cramer said Tuesday that the club thought the project important to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany, as well as fighting anti-Semitism today.
Daimler, railway operator Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Bank and Volkswagen are also donating to the construction of the "Shoah Heritage Collections Campus," which is scheduled to open in 2021.
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The memorial has collected more than 210 million documents, 500,000 photographs, 131,000 survivor testimonies, 32,400 artifacts, and 11,500 works of art since it was established in 1953.