Founded in 1997, the Virginia Holocaust Museum views its primary mission as educating the world-wide community about the historical and personal realities of the Holocaust. Through its permanent exhibitions, the Museum remembers the atrocities of the Shoah, the sacrifices of its victims, the bravery of its heroes and the courage of the survivors. The Museum's commitment to Tolerance Through Education, encapsulates its goal to combat intolerance, anti-Semitism, racism, prejudice, fear and hatred with knowledge, understanding, compassion and acceptance.
Charlie is my first cousin. His father was my mother's brother. He is remarkable and was one of the reasons I went into academe and got my PhD at 30 from Penn State. He's had an incredible career. He is an inspiration to many.
Dear Sam: 75 years ago my father help liberate Dachau. What he saw stayed with him for the rest of his life. What he told me is one of the reasons I became a History teacher and a member of the VA Holocaust Museum, Thank for keeping the memory of this forever as my Dad said we should. WTO
As Assistant Executive Director at the Jewish Federation of Richmond in Virginia in 1990, I was the Executive Producer for the documentary, "Through Our Survivors Eye's." In conjunction with the Jewish Federation, survivor community in Richmond and Circut City, the electronic superstore, we captured the oral histories of 40 Holocaust Survivors, of which six of those survivors agreed to be featured in this video. The script for this video was vetted by the head archivist (historian) for the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. before the Holocaust Museum was open to the public. All forty individual oral histories averaged two hours in length and reside in the archives of the U.S. Holocaust Museum and Richmond Holocaust Museum.
