MuseumSara Bloomfield joined the Museum in 1986 when it was a project in development grappling with the challenge of building a Holocaust museum on the National Mall. She served in a number of positions before becoming director in 1999. Under her direction, the Museum created a series of innovative leadership training programs for law enforcement, the judiciary, and the military. She established the Museum’s National Institute for Holocaust Education, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, and Academy for Genocide Prevention.
Ms. Bloomfield has played a leading role in several major international negotiations, including the opening of the largest closed archive in the world, the International Tracing Service, in Germany; the first-ever loan of Anne Frank’s original writings; and an understanding between Serbs and Croatians to preserve their mutual Holocaust history in Croatia. She is a member of the International Auschwitz Council and has advised museums around the world, such as the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Argentine government’s effort to memorialize the victims of “the Dirty War,” the Holocaust museum in Buenos Aires, the memorial committee at Ground Zero in New York, and the Iraq Memory Foundation.
She has a BA in English Literature from Northwestern University and a Masters in Education from John Carroll University. She has received a variety of awards, including three honorary doctorates.
November 19, 2008
