Tag: Holocaust Museum
How a Jewish museum in Florida landed the Wiesel Collection
For about a year, officials at the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) in downtown St. Petersburg kept a closely guarded secret that the museum was seeking to become the permanent home of a treasure trove...
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ohio museum is free
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held annually on Jan. 27, and in response to “the unprecedented rise in Holocaust denial and antisemitism,” the Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati...
Gaza rocket damages Holocaust museum
KIBBUTZ YAD MORDECHAI — A Holocaust museum in a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip has been damaged by a Hamas rocket.
The From Holocaust to Revival Museum, which is located less than two miles from the...
Holocaust museums and memorials have work cut out for them attracting non-Jews
In a study published in the Journal of Travel Research last year, scholars from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that a visit to the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, which they dubbed “dark tourism,” made...
‘Real-time’ testimonials from survivors to highlight new Orlando Holocaust center
The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida, north of Orlando, will expand, relocate and be renamed as its mission shifts to preserving the testimonials and memories of survivors of the Shoah.
The new...
Couple plans to build first Holocaust museum in Boston
Jewish philanthropists Jody Kipnis and Todd Ruderman of Massachusetts bought a 15,000-square-foot building in Boston to create a Holocaust museum.
“Look what’s going on in Europe again,” she said, referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...
Virginia museum unveils memorial honoring child victims of the Holocaust
The Virginia Holocaust Museum has opened a permanent Children’s Memorial dedicated to young victims of the Holocaust, the first of its kind in the United States, reported the local NBC 12.
The memorial, which took more...
Montreal Holocaust Museum initiates $80 million project to relocate to Jewish Quarter
The Montreal Holocaust Museum has undertaken an $80 million project to relocate into a new space in the city’s historic Jewish community.
The building on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal will feature interactive holograms of Holocaust survivors...
Los Angeles Holocaust museum secures $2.5 million in new state funding
California state lawmakers on Thursday announced $2.5 million in funding to support the expansion of Holocaust Museum LA, including for a new learning center pavilion and new programming for younger learners at the Los Angeles...
Hundreds rally against hate, anti-Semitism post-graffiti at Florida Holocaust Museum
One week to the day after the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg was vandalized, hundreds gathered on Thursday to say no to anti-Semitism and stand up for the Jewish community.
It was back on May 27...