A multicultural couple living in Busan opened a cultural center and museum focused on Israel and the Jewish people for the first time in Busan on March 4.
Jay and Keum Kronish opened The Busan Israel House, an Israeli-Jewish culture center and Holocaust memorial museum, with help from the Israeli Embassy in Korea and the personal encouragement of Israeli Ambassador to Korea Tuvia Israeli.
The Busan Israel House focuses on the Holocaust in which some six million Jews were killed during World War 2 and how the attempted genocide affected Judaism and European Jewish people.
“The special Holocaust emphasis of the Busan Israel House intends to teach the lessons humanity must learn from this worst of all genocides,” the Kornishes said in a press statement about the opening ceremony on March 4. “A special area of the Busan Israel House is dedicated to the Holocaust.”
“We wish for children of all ages, escorted by their teachers, university students and other adults to come to Israel House,” the couple said.
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