Switzerland approves its first national memorial honoring victims of the Holocaust – The Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities umbrella group says that until now there have been only small, private sites dedicated to ‘the numerous Swiss victims of persecution’ | Timesofisrael

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s executive body agreed Wednesday to help pay for a national memorial to honor the six million Jews and other victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution, in what the leading Swiss Jewish group is calling the country’s first official monument of its kind.