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MUSEUM FACTS AND FIGURES

VISITORS TO THE MUSEUM

Total: More than 34.1 million since the Museum opened in April 1993.
Demographics: 34% school-age children; 12% international; approximately 90% non-Jewish.
Dignitaries: 96 heads of state; more than 3,500 foreign officials from over 132 countries.

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS

Wexner Learning Center: From Memory to Action: From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide; The Nuremberg Trials: What Is Justice?
Gonda Education Center (Lower Level): A Dangerous Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Meyerhoff Theater Entrance (Lower Level): Abandoned at Srebrenica: Ten Years Later.
Traveling Exhibitions: From October to December 2011, Museum traveling exhibitions were on display in eight cities and states, including South Dakota for the first time.

COLLECTIONS AND REFERENCE SERVICES

Art and Artifacts: More than 16,385 objects, with an average of six to seven new items acquired each week.
Archives and Photo Archives: 64.6 million pages, with an additional 135 million digital images from the International Tracing Service; 87,200 historical photographs and images, of which 25,900 are available on the Museum's website.
Meed Survivors Registry: 204,760 survivors and their descendants registered.
Film and Video: More than 1,027 hours of archival footage; 220 hours of outtakes from the groundbreaking film SHOAH; 1,050 research requests annually.
Library and Oral History: Over 93,132 items in 57 languages; more than 12,500 oral history testimonies; access to 52,000 oral histories from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.
Senior Historian’s Division: 940 research requests fulfilled from January through September 2011.

EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

Regional Education Corps: 35 advanced teachers of the Holocaust in 20 states.
Museum Teacher Fellows: 293, from every state, since the program began in 1996.
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies: 431 Fellows-in-Residence from 30 countries since 1994; 728 campus outreach lectures in 49 states since 2001; 652 faculty seminar participants from 49 states; 35 Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies seminars held at the Museum since 1999.

ADMINISTRATION, STAFF, AND MEMBERSHIP

Base Operating Budget: FY 2012: $81.2 million ($50.7m federal appropriation pending; $30.5 private donations and investment income).
Staff: Nearly 400 staff; 150 contractors (security and cleaning services).
Volunteers and Interns: More than 400 volunteers, including 74 Holocaust survivors, donated more than 30,000 hours of service in 2011; 128 interns also provided help.
Members and Supporters: 170,000
Regional Development Offices: Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, New England, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Western.

Quarterly statistics as of 8/1/2012

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.

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.

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.

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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