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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ( USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM provides for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history. It is dedicated to helping leaders and citizens of the world confront hatred, prevent genocide ...
The Holocaust Memorial at California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park (San Francisco) Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust [6] The Museum of Tolerance [7] ( Los Angeles) The Pink Triangle Park (San Francisco) The Simon Wiesenthal Center (Los Angeles) The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation at University of Southern ...
The Zekelman Holocaust Center, founded as the Holocaust Memorial Center (The HC), [1] the first free-standing institution of its kind in the United States, [2] was founded by CEO Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzveig with his fellow members of Shaarit Haplaytah ("the Remnant," survivors of the Holocaust). It took nearly twenty years of planning and ...
The St. Louis Holocaust Museum & Learning Center was founded in 1995, publicly opening on May 1, 1995. It operated as a department of Jewish Federation of St. Louis. The museum's opening was dedicated to Gloria M. Goldstein, the wife of museum benefactor Samuel Goldstein. Samuel Goldstein would die five years later at the age of 82.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with that town. Hawthorne entered Bowdoin College in 1821, was elected to Phi Beta ...
Speaking at the U.S. Capitol, Biden gave the keynote address for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual commemoration of Germany’s attempt to annihilate European Jews during World War II.
Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280436-5. Further reading. Fogelman, Eva (1994). Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-42027-7. Phayer, Michael (2000). The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930–1965. Bloomington and Indianapolis ...
The Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum ( Romanian: Sinagoga din Șimleu Silvaniei) is located in Șimleu Silvaniei, Sălaj County, Romania, and was opened September 11, 2005. The museum is operated and maintained by the Jewish Architectural Heritage Foundation of New York and Asociația Memoraliă Hebraică Nușfalău (a Romanian ...