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{{Organization | {{Organization | ||
|OrganizationName= | |OrganizationName=Holocaust Memorial Museum | ||
|OrganizationType=Cultural Institutions | |OrganizationType=Cultural Institutions | ||
|Mission= | |Mission=Holocaust Museum educates on the Holocaust, honors victims, and inspires action against hatred and genocide as a national institution. | ||
|CreationLegislation=Holocaust Memorial Museum Act of 1980 | |CreationLegislation=Holocaust Memorial Museum Act of 1980 | ||
|Employees=400 | |Employees=400 | ||
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== Overview == | == Overview == | ||
In 2008, the museum had an operating budget of $120.6 million.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ushmm.org/online/annualreport/a/p/2018-financial-statements.pdf |title=2018 Financial Statements |access-date=24 October 2019 |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420010719/https://www.ushmm.org/online/annualreport/a/p/2018-financial-statements.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> a staff of about 400 employees, 125 contractors, 650 volunteers, 91 Holocaust survivors, and 175,000 members. It had local offices in | In 2008, the museum had an operating budget of $120.6 million.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ushmm.org/online/annualreport/a/p/2018-financial-statements.pdf |title=2018 Financial Statements |access-date=24 October 2019 |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420010719/https://www.ushmm.org/online/annualreport/a/p/2018-financial-statements.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> a staff of about 400 employees, 125 contractors, 650 volunteers, 91 Holocaust survivors, and 175,000 members. It had local offices in New York City, Boston, [[Boca Raton]], Chicago, Los Angeles, and [[Dallas]].<ref name="Press Kit">{{cite web |url=http://www.ushmm.org/museum/press/kits/details.php?content=99-general |title=Press Kit |publisher=Ushmm.org |access-date=2012-05-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120705130142/http://www.ushmm.org/museum/press/kits/details.php?content=99-general |archive-date=2012-07-05}}</ref> | ||
Since its dedication on April 22, 1993, the museum has had nearly 40 million visitors, including more than 10 million school children, 99 heads of state, and more than 3,500 foreign officials from over 211 countries and territories. The museum's visitors came from all over the world, and less than 10 percent are Jewish. In 2008, its website had 25 million visits, from an average of 100 countries daily. Thirty-five percent of these visits were from outside the United States.<ref name="ushmm1"/> | Since its dedication on April 22, 1993, the museum has had nearly 40 million visitors, including more than 10 million school children, 99 heads of state, and more than 3,500 foreign officials from over 211 countries and territories. The museum's visitors came from all over the world, and less than 10 percent are Jewish. In 2008, its website had 25 million visits, from an average of 100 countries daily. Thirty-five percent of these visits were from outside the United States.<ref name="ushmm1"/> | ||
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In 2002, [[2002 white supremacist terror plot|a federal jury convicted white supremacists Leo Felton and Erica Chase]] of planning to bomb a series of institutions associated with American black and Jewish communities, including the USHMM.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2002/07/26/Jury-convicts-white-supremacists/UPI-67151027718854/ |title=Jury convicts white supremacists |last=Haskell |first=Dave |date=2002-07-26 |work=[[UPI]] |access-date=2009-10-31 |archive-date=13 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111213190147/http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2002/07/26/Jury-convicts-white-supremacists/UPI-67151027718854/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | In 2002, [[2002 white supremacist terror plot|a federal jury convicted white supremacists Leo Felton and Erica Chase]] of planning to bomb a series of institutions associated with American black and Jewish communities, including the USHMM.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2002/07/26/Jury-convicts-white-supremacists/UPI-67151027718854/ |title=Jury convicts white supremacists |last=Haskell |first=Dave |date=2002-07-26 |work=[[UPI]] |access-date=2009-10-31 |archive-date=13 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111213190147/http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2002/07/26/Jury-convicts-white-supremacists/UPI-67151027718854/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
On June 10, 2009, 88-year-old [[James von Brunn]], an [[Antisemitism|antisemite]], [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting|shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns]]. Special Police Officer Johns and von Brunn were seriously wounded and transported by ambulance to the [[George Washington University Hospital]]. Special Police Officer Johns later died of his injuries; he is permanently honored in an official memorial at the USHMM. Von Brunn, who had a previous criminal record, died before the conclusion of his federal criminal trial,<ref name=Post>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/10/AR2009061001768.html?hpid=topnews |title=2 People Shot at U.S. Holocaust Museum |last=Wilgoren |first=Debbi |author2=Branigin, William |date=2009-06-10 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=2009-06-11 |archive-date=26 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826051726/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/10/AR2009061001768.html?hpid=topnews |url-status=live }}</ref> in [[Federal Correctional Complex, Butner|Butner federal prison]] in [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Associated Press January 6, 2010, 2:03 p.m. |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-holocaust-shooter7-2010jan07,0,2069772.story?track=rss |title=LA Times article on von Brunn's death |work= | On June 10, 2009, 88-year-old [[James von Brunn]], an [[Antisemitism|antisemite]], [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting|shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns]]. Special Police Officer Johns and von Brunn were seriously wounded and transported by ambulance to the [[George Washington University Hospital]]. Special Police Officer Johns later died of his injuries; he is permanently honored in an official memorial at the USHMM. Von Brunn, who had a previous criminal record, died before the conclusion of his federal criminal trial,<ref name=Post>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/10/AR2009061001768.html?hpid=topnews |title=2 People Shot at U.S. Holocaust Museum |last=Wilgoren |first=Debbi |author2=Branigin, William |date=2009-06-10 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=2009-06-11 |archive-date=26 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826051726/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/10/AR2009061001768.html?hpid=topnews |url-status=live }}</ref> in [[Federal Correctional Complex, Butner|Butner federal prison]] in [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Associated Press January 6, 2010, 2:03 p.m. |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-holocaust-shooter7-2010jan07,0,2069772.story?track=rss |title=LA Times article on von Brunn's death |work=Los Angeles Times |date=2010-01-06 |access-date=2012-05-03 |archive-date=27 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230827013827/https://www.latimes.com/world/la-na-holocaust-shooter7-2010jan07-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
==Architecture== | ==Architecture== | ||
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*Chairman [[Miles Lerman]] and Vice Chairman Ruth B. Mandel, appointed by President [[Bill Clinton]] in 1993; through 2000 | *Chairman [[Miles Lerman]] and Vice Chairman Ruth B. Mandel, appointed by President [[Bill Clinton]] in 1993; through 2000 | ||
*Chairman Rabbi [[Irving Greenberg]], appointed by President Clinton in 2000; through 2002 | *Chairman Rabbi [[Irving Greenberg]], appointed by President Clinton in 2000; through 2002 | ||
*Chairman Fred S. Zeidman, appointed by President | *Chairman Fred S. Zeidman, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002; and Vice Chairman Joel M. Geiderman, appointed by President Bush in 2005; through 2010 | ||
*Chairman Tom A. Bernstein; 2010–2017<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ushmm.org/information/about-the-museum/council |title=United States Holocaust Memorial Council (Board of Trustees) — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |website=www.ushmm.org |access-date=8 March 2021 |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029082915/https://www.ushmm.org/information/about-the-museum/council |url-status=live }}</ref> | *Chairman Tom A. Bernstein; 2010–2017<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ushmm.org/information/about-the-museum/council |title=United States Holocaust Memorial Council (Board of Trustees) — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |website=www.ushmm.org |access-date=8 March 2021 |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029082915/https://www.ushmm.org/information/about-the-museum/council |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
*Chairman Howard M. Lorber; 2017–2022<ref>{{Cite web |title=Howard M. Lorber — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |url=https://www.ushmm.org/information/about-the-museum/executive-biographies/howard-m-lorber |access-date=2021-05-21 |website=www.ushmm.org |archive-date=21 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521130620/https://www.ushmm.org/information/about-the-museum/executive-biographies/howard-m-lorber |url-status=live }}</ref> | *Chairman Howard M. Lorber; 2017–2022<ref>{{Cite web |title=Howard M. Lorber — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |url=https://www.ushmm.org/information/about-the-museum/executive-biographies/howard-m-lorber |access-date=2021-05-21 |website=www.ushmm.org |archive-date=21 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521130620/https://www.ushmm.org/information/about-the-museum/executive-biographies/howard-m-lorber |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||