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20TH ANNIVERSARY

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MUSEUM FACTS AND FIGURES »

20 ACTIONS TO MARK 20 YEARS »

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20TH ANNIVERSARY BROCHURE »

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20TH ANNIVERSARY SPOKESPERSON BIOS »

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20 ACCIONES PARA CONMEMORAR LOS 20 AñOS DEL MUSEO »

BACKGROUND

For 20 years, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has inspired millions by teaching the lessons of the Holocaust. To mark its 20th anniversary, the Museum will hold a historic gathering of Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans in Washington, DC, and a four-city tour to engage the public with its work and demonstrate the continuing relevance of the Holocaust.

On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, individuals around the world are invited to join in the Museum’s work to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive and bring its lessons to current and future generations. A special 20th anniversary website, ushmm.org/neveragain, provides 20 actions people anywhere can take to raise awareness about the Holocaust and its continuing relevance. Visitors to the website can share stories, photographs, or videos about how the Museum or the memory of the Holocaust has inspired them to take action to confront hate or antisemitism today. They can also take an online pledge to meet the challenge of genocide.

These are images that reflect some of the programming going on the road as a part of the 20th tour stops.

Niusia Gordon’s false papers; her parents’ marriage registration; photos kept in hiding; postwar photos; three postcards sent to Niusia by her mother, Basia, from the Vilna ghetto; and the violin of Boruch Gordon,who was murdered in 1943 by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Ponary forest near Vilna, Lithuania.
Passengers board the SS St. Louis.
Group portrait of Jewish refugee preschoolers at the Christobal Colon school in Sosua.
Jews are boarded onto the back of a truck during a deportation action from Kerpen, Germany. Before their deportation the Jews were assembled at the”Judenhaus” on the Hindenburgstrasse. On July 18, 1942 the last 31 Jews were deported from this location.
Artifacts donated to the Museum by Anthony Acevedo, a medic with the US Army’s 70th Infantry Division during World War II.
Detail of the Museum’s Children’s Tile Wall.
14th Street Entrance of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Pages from the diary of Helen Baker.
Procession of US Army liberating division flags at the National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance in the US Capitol.
Philadelphia police recruits tour the Museum during their Law Enforcement and Society training.
American soldiers at Dachau, April 1945.
One of the three milk cans used by Warsaw ghetto historian Emanuel Ringelblum to store and preserve the secret “Oneg Shabbat” ghetto archives.
A portrait of Gerda Weissman Klein.
Detail from a 1936 poster with the heading “All of Germany Listens to the Führer with the People’s Radio.”
Claude Lanzmann interviews Peter Bergson, Abraham Bomba, and Ruth Elias for SHOAH, 1978-1979.
Typewriter used by Pastor Martin Niemöller to compose sermons critical of Nazism.
Shoes confiscated from prisoners at Majdanek, on loan from the State Museum of Majdanek, Lublin, Poland.
Years of international Museum advocacy result in ratification of the agreement to open the International Tracing Service archive in Bad Arolsen, Germany. Copies of more than 100 million documents with information on more than 17 million people are now available to Holocaust survivors, their families, and scholars. To date, the Museum has provided information in response to more than 14,700 requests.
Chairman Harvey M. “Bud” Meyerhoff, President Bill Clinton, and Founding Chairman Elie Wiesel light the eternal flame during the Museum’s dedication ceremony on April 22, 1993.
A Holocaust survivor donates her personal artifacts at a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 20th Anniversary National Tour stop.
After touring the Permanent Exhibition, Washington, DC, Police Chief Charles Ramsey works with the Museum to create training programs that apply the lessons of the Holocaust to the challenges of law enforcement. Nearly 80,000 police, FBI agents, prosecutors, and judges have participated in these programs.
A Holocaust survivor marks his location at the end of the War at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 20th Anniversary National Tour stop.
The Museum and the National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco sign an archival agreement transferring thousands of pages of documents related to the wartime life experiences of Morocco’s Jewish population. The agreement, the first of its kind between a Holocaust Museum and an Arab country, was signed with the support of His Majesty King Mohammed VI and helps researchers study the Holocaust’s impact on North Africa.
Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans were recognized with special pins on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 20th Anniversary National Tour.
For the first time, the Museum declares a “genocide emergency,” warning that hundreds of thousands could perish in Darfur, Sudan. The declaration follows a May 2004 visit by Museum staff to Chad to bear witness to and document refugees’ accounts of violence firsthand.
A ceremony during United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 20th Anniversary National Tour honored Holocaust survivors and WWII veterans and featured the presentation of the liberating division flags and the national colors.

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