ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - More than a year after closing for $8 million in upgrades, the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg officially reopened on Tuesday. Holocaust survivors and their families cut the ribbon on Tuesday.

"The emotions are, you know, bringing back to mind what we survived and hope that future generations learn from what happened and hopefully history will not repeat itself, because history unlearned is history repeated," Holocaust survivor Dr. John Rinde said. "We see what happened in Israel on October seventh and the anti-Semitism that was exhibited by the Columbia and Harvard students, and even in my alma mater at MIT. It's very, very disturbing."

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