Virginia Holocaust Museum

By Samuel Asher, Executive Director, Virginia Holocaust Museum Our new Museum Shop and Bookstore are stocking up for Passover. Each day we get in new...

The Virginia Holocaust Museum commemoration for Yom HaShoah will take place on May 5th this year. We are honored to have Stuart E. Eizenstat,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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

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...