JUN 24, 2010
Save the Dates for our Grand Opening!
Thursday, October 14, 2010
10:00 am Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony featuring local dignitaries
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Gala Dinner at our award-winning new Museum
4:00 pm Museum Preview
5:30 pm Cocktails
6:30 pm Dinner
See you there!
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MAY 24, 2010
Construction Update
View new photos and video of our construction site for our new Museum building at our Facebook page:
Scheduled construction tours are the best way to appreciate the new building’s breathtaking design. Contact Amy Cabranes, Development Director, (323)651-9915
READ MOREAPR 28, 2010
LAMOTH announces winners of 2nd annual short film competition
Film has become one of the most powerful international languages and tools for learning history. It has become paramount that we begin to interpret the Holocaust through the moving image. In light of this notion, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust invited filmmakers of all ages to submit entries into the 2nd annual short film competition.
This year's theme was "Memory, Tragedy, and Truth". Contestants...
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APR 27, 2010
Executive Director and Holocaust Survivor visit Army Fort in Arizona
Painful memories of the past
By Bill Hess
Sierra Vista Herald
FORT HUACHUCA — For nearly three years his name was a number — 110362.
Treated as a criminal, Albert Rosa said the six-digit number was a way to take away his human identity.
“It was my name,” Rosa said Wednesday, as he looked down on the faded blue tattoo on his left arm.
One would think the striped uniform he wore...
APR 6, 2010
Mind meets museum to create enduring Holocaust memories
Are you a Holocaust avoider? Not a denier, just someone like me who struggles with thinking about destruction, death and genocide.
Do you sometimes catch yourself thinking, “Can’t I just think about this another time?”
Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is observed on April 12; what should you do?
There are lectures, symposia and memorial concerts. You could attend a service...
READ MOREMAR 23, 2010
Federation Cuts Allocations
Federation Cuts Allocations
The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles handed out cuts to all of the organizations it supports in the 2010 budget approved Feb. 18, a result of a challenging fundraising year and some changes by the new president, Jay Sanderson.
Sanderson, who took his post Jan. 3, had delayed final approval on the $45.8 million budget while he reviewed...
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FEB 23, 2010
Were You On The Kindertransport ?……..
Or perhaps you are “Second Generation Kinder”?
Michele Gold is working with Gabriella Karin, a Holocaust Survivor and an artist – who is creating a train sculpture as a tribute to the Children Survivors that were saved by the Kindertransports. Gabriella & Michele are looking to receive as many childhood photographs of Survivors from the Kindertransports as possible to insert into this train...
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FEB 17, 2010
An Update on our Construction Progress
Contractors poured the cement forming the new Museum’s entrance ramp. Visitors to the construction site may now enter the building just as the thousands of students and adults will do once the Museum is complete this summer. This significant and exciting step makes it possible to experience the inter-relationship between the green roof, the Museum entrance, and the Holocaust Monument as intended...
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FEB 2, 2010
Jewish Museum Professionals Enjoy Museum Sneak Preview
The new Museum building hosted its first high-level delegation when Executive Directors, Curators, and other officials attending the Council of American Jewish Museums conference walked through the Museum.
Executive Director Mark Rothman welcomed the more than 50 conference participants. “This is a kind of shecheyanu moment,” Mark said, referring to the prayer traditionally recited on...
READ MOREJAN 18, 2010
Holocaust Institution To Expand
Site’s planners say it won’t conflict with Museum of Tolerance.
By David Haldane
Up Front Los Angeles Business Journal
A now-obscure museum of Holocaust exhibits and artifacts in
an office building on Wilshire Boulevard is about to become far more
conspicuous.
A 29,000-square-foot facility for the Los Angeles Museum of
the Holocaust is well along in construction at Pan Pacific Park,...
DEC 15, 2009
European Nations Sponsor Garden of the Righteous
Several European nations, through their Los Angeles Consuls General, committed to planting trees in the new Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust’s Garden of the Righteous. The Garden, planned to be located near the existing Monument, will memorialize the Righteous Gentiles of sponsoring countries.
Each sponsoring nation’s $5,000 commitment to the Museum’s Capital Campaign will be...
READ MORESEP 25, 2009
L.A. Holocaust Museum Announces Honorees for 2nd Annual Dinner
LOS ANGELES, CA - Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust announced today it selected Academy Award winning Producer Branko Lustig as its honoree at its 2nd Annual Dinner. The Museum will also confer a Lifetime Achievement Award upon Dr. Andreas Maislinger, founder and chairman of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service, and the 2009 Student of the Year Award on Samuel A. Rauch, a senior at Dartmouth College...
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Mayor and Holocaust Survivors Commemorate Auschwitz Liberation with Groundbreaking for New Holocaust Museum
LOS ANGELES, CA – Mayor Antonio Villaraigrosa and the Holocaust survivors who founded the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust today commemorated the 63rd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by breaking ground for the Museum’s permanent home. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, Councilman Tom Labonge, and other Museum representatives also participated in the ceremony, which was...
READ MORENOV 14, 2007
L.A. Holocaust Museum Receives $3 Million Donation After Executing Lease with City of Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA - The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust received its largest donation to date yesterday, a $3 million donation from the Schoenberg Family Charitable Gift Fund of Schwab Charitable Fund through the generosity of E. Randol and Pamela Schoenberg. The donation became possible after the City of Los Angeles and the city’s oldest Holocaust Museum signed a lease agreement allowing the...
READ MOREAUG 20, 2007
L.A. Holocaust Museum Fights U.S. Immigration Service to Force Visa for Austrian National
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust has filed an appeal challenging a visa denial by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”).
USCIS denied a visa last month to a young English-speaking Austrian man, Valentin Hofer, who elected to fulfill his national service requirement by volunteering at...
AUG 9, 2007
LAMH Awarded Prestigious Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services
LOS ANGELES, CA – Thanks to a Museum for America grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) will be able to organize and restructure its vast Archive for the benefit of the community, students, and scholars.
The Archive Project will permit the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust to thoroughly assess its Archive and complete...
JUN 26, 2007
Los Angeles City Council Approves Lease Agreement for Holocaust Museum in Pan Pacific Park
Los Angeles City Council Approves Lease Agreement for Holocaust Museum in Pan Pacific Park Led by Member Tom LaBonge (District 4), the Los Angeles City Council today voted unanimously to recommend signing a lease with Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (“LAMH”). The lease will allow LAMH to construct a permanent home in Pan Pacific Park for its exhibits and archives devoted to Holocaust commemoration...
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