Address: 2000 East Cary St.
Richmond, 23223
Phone: 804-257-5400
Fax: 804-257-4314
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Website: https://www.vaholocaust.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VHMrichmond
Twitter: http://twitter.com/VaHolocaust
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/vaholocaust/
Director/Person-in-Charge: Samuel Asher, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members:
Megan Ferenczy, Director of Education
Matthew Simpson, Director of Guest Services
Tim Hensley, Director of Collections
Year Established: 1997
Staff: Salaried - 19
Type of Organization or Mission: The Virginia Holocaust Museum preserves and documents the Holocaust in exhibits and its archival collections. Through the permanent exhibits, educational programming, and outreach, the Museum employs the history of the Holocaust and other genocides to educate and inspire future generations of Virginians to fight prejudice and indifference.
Publications: De Malyene; To See, To Feel, To Know: Experiencing the Holocaust through the Virginia Holocaust Museum by E.A. Custalow
Services: Docent led tours through exhibitions; Film Screenings, and other special programs; Outreach Requests; Carol M. Weinstein Holocaust Research Library and Archives; Collect, records of oral histories from Survivors of the Holocaust & modern genocides; Alexander Lebenstein Teacher Education Institute (TEI); Professional Development Workshops for educators and law enforcement; Lectures from historians, Survivors of the Holocaust &modern genocides; Collect, record and transcribe oral histories of Holocaust survivors, Liberators and victims of other genocides
