Check out the new Museum Shop and Bookstore at VHM

By Samuel Asher, Executive Director, Virginia Holocaust Museum Get ready for Purim on March 23rd this year! The sweet aroma of freshly baked Hamantaschen always reminds...

Planting ‘seeds’ everyday

The 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar—which was celebrated this year on Thursday, January 25, —is Tu BiShvat, the day that marks the...

A new year with hope, optimism and gratitude

As the calendar changed from December to January, the Virginia Holocaust Museum (VHM) looks to the new year with hope, optimism, and gratitude. We are...

Never again is truly now in Israel and around the world

By Samuel Asher, Executive Director, Virginia Holocaust Museum“Israel was not created in order to disappear- Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child...

Stand by Israel

By Samuel Asher, Executive Director, Virginia Holocaust Museum In 1948, at the end of the Holocaust, Israel was the only country to open its arms...

An exhilarating chapter in the VHM’s history

 By Samuel Asher, Executive Director, Virginia Holocaust Museum Every day we march a little closer to having the renovations to our first floor complete. The construction...

Virginia Holocaust Museum – Preserving history, shaping the future ...

By Samuel Asher. Executive Director, Virginia Holocaust MuseumI’m excited for our renovations to be complete and for the public to see what we have...

VHM is truly a place to pursue knowledge

By Samuel Asher, Executive Director, Virginia Holocaust Museum In his autobiography, "Songs My Mother Taught Me," Marlon Brando uses the word “seichel” to sum up...

VHM to recognize its Capital Campaign Donors

By Samuel Asher, Executive DirectorVirginia Holocaust Museum Every day I get excited to walk into the Museum and see progress from the past 24...

VHM awards prizes to students in Annual Visual Arts Contest.

At the Yom HaShoah Remembrance program on April 23, the Virginia Holocaust Museum awarded prizes to students who won awards in the Annual Visual...