PHOENIX — Aided by survivors — and with police and private security nearby — members of the Jewish Historical Society and state and local officials broke ground on a museum they hope will become a destination for students to learn about the Holocaust.

The formal event comes a year after state lawmakers approved $7 million for the facility to be built on the site of Phoenix’s first synagogue and two years after Phoenix voters approved a bond package including $2 million for the facility.

It also comes, as Gov. Katie Hobbs noted, on the heels of the killing of two staffers at the Israeli Embassy in Washington as well as an attack on Jews by a Molotov cocktail throwing assailant in Boulder, Colorado, who authorities say told them he had “no regrets.”

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