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Libeskind

/ ˈliːbəskɪnd /

noun

  1. LibeskindDaniel1946MUSARCHITECTURE: architect Daniel . born 1946, US architect, born in Poland. Based in Berlin, he designed the Jewish Museum there (1999), the Imperial War Museum in Manchester (2000), and the "Freedom Tower" that will replace the World Trade Center in New York
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The plans, by renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, will include preserving some parts of the existing structure and replacing others, with spaces for worship, community activities and programming about antisemitism.

Daniel Libeskind, the architect known for memorializing historical trauma and a son of Holocaust survivors, was chosen to help turn that vision into structure.

Mr. Libeskind, who in 2003 won the competition to design the World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11 attacks, had been in New York when the attack at Tree of Life occurred.

Mr. Libeskind would soon learn that the gunman had apparently chosen Tree of Life because one of the three congregations that worshiped there, Dor Hadash, had participated in a program for refugees with the charity HIAS.

That group, under its original name, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, had given Mr. Libeskind’s family members financial assistance and helped them rent a home in Bronx public housing when they arrived as immigrants in 1959.

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