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Holocaust Museum receives $5 million and community support

Holocaust Museum receives $5 million and community support

| June 30, 2022 | 0 Comments

Holocaust Museum LA has received a $5 million grant from The Smidt Foundation that will help to further the Museum’s expansion project that will double its size to 50,000 square feet. Holocaust Museum LA is not the only institution in the area that the Smidts have supported. In 2016, Susan and Eric Smidt donated $25 […]

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Plans are underway to expand campus at Holocaust Museum

Plans are underway to expand campus at Holocaust Museum

| October 28, 2021 | 0 Comments

Little did a small group of Holocaust survivors who met in the 1960s at an English-as-a-second-language class know that their efforts would lead to a major museum in the heart of the city. The group, who met at Hollywood High, each had an item from the war — a Star of David on a shirt, a […]

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Yom HaShoah commemoration ceremony, hosted by the Holocaust Museum LA

| April 11, 2021

Yom HaShoah commemoration ceremony hosted by the Holocaust Museum LA via webinar at 11 a.m. Visit holocaustmuseumla.org.

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Holocaust survivor’s book tells of fear, loss and triumph

Holocaust survivor’s book tells of fear, loss and triumph

| January 28, 2021 | 0 Comments

Holocaust survivor Gabriella Karin wrote her memoir as a 90th birthday present to herself. While her story speaks to the horrors of war, it also celebrates the triumph of the human spirit. In 1944, Karin hid in a cramped apartment for nine long months. But unlike Anne Frank — the diarist in the Netherlands who […]

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