Architect Daniel Libeskind to design new Tree of Life synagogue
Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life congregation has chosen internationally renowned architect Daniel Libeskind to design a new building for the site where 11 Jews were gunned down nearly three years ago in the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history.
Libeskind was the unanimous choice of the steering committee as well as of Tree of Life’s board of trustees, and for reasons beyond his architectural qualifications: Libeskind was born to Holocaust survivors living in a homeless shelter in Lodz, Poland, after the war.
Since the massacre, the congregation has not reentered the building it had occupied since the early 1950s. Several other congregations that met in the synagogue have also found other homes.
