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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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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> | ||