FAU receives 'significant gift' to create Holocaust museum in Boca Raton

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Florida Atlantic University is planning to begin construction this summer on a Holocaust museum after receiving a "significant gift" from Craig and Barbara Weiner.

The university is planning to build a 2,000-square-foot museum within the Kurt and Marilyn Wallach Holocaust and Jewish Studies Building in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters on the Boca Raton campus. It will be called Craig and Barbara Weiner Holocaust Museum of South Florida at FAU.

The news release didn't include the donation amount.

The gift includes funding for the interior of the museum, including display cases and donated authentic artifacts from the Holocaust.