Members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council pose with two milkcans containing a Scroll of Remembrance signed by Holocaust ... [LCID: n05396]
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Symbolic groundbreaking ceremony

Members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council pose with two milkcans containing a Scroll of Remembrance signed by Holocaust survivors at a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Benjamin Meed is second from the left. Washington, DC, April 30, 1984.

During groundbreaking ceremonies in April 1985, the containers were buried on the site of the Museum. 

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