WOODBINE – Mayor William Pikolycky is pleased to announce that the Planning Board of the Borough of Woodbine has issued a final approval of the expansion plans for the Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage. The museum is now home to The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey’s Cape May County extension site.
The addition’s redbrick exterior will match the main portion of the building, which was built in 1893 as both a synagogue and community meeting place by the original settlers. The community itself was founded in 1891 as a haven for Eastern European Jews fleeing the pogroms of Czarist Russia. Woodbine was incorporated as a separate municipality on March 3, 1903, and has just celebrated its 109th anniversary.
The Sam Azeez Museum was established in 2002, and was designated as Cape May County’s official Holocaust education site. Last year founder Michel Azeez, who named the museum after his late father, a Woodbine native, donated the building and its new addition to Stockton, along with a $5 million endowment.
Stockton will be using the expanded facility for educational programs, especially those relating to Holocaust studies.
Pinelands approval for the expansion is expected in the near future.
“Woodbine was established as a refuge from the horrors of the pogroms of the nineteen century; this facility now serves as a education site concerning the horrors of the genocides of the twentieth century,” noted Mayor Pikolycky.
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