Teen becomes 100,000th visitor at Holocaust center in Japan

HIROSHIMA, Aug. 29 Kyodo -
A teenager became the 100,000th visitor Saturday at the Holocaust Education
Center in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, officials of the facility said.
Eri Inagaki, 15, from Tsu, Mie Prefecture, received a certificate and ''The
Diary of a Young Girl'' of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who died at age 15 in a
Nazi concentration camp, from the center's vice director general, Akio Yoshida.
The junior high school student visited the facility as part of a peace
education tour, they said.
''We hope many children will continue coming here to think about peace,''
Yoshida said.
The director general of the center, Makoto Otsuka, opened the facility in 1995
to convey the tragedies of the Nazi Holocaust after he met Anne Frank's father
Otto Frank, who is now deceased.
Among the displays of the center are items left by slaughtered Jews and a
reproduced room of the Amsterdam house where Anne and her family hid until they
were captured by the Nazis.
==Kyodo