Museum Guide News

The Virginia Holocaust Museum, established in 1997, is dedicated to preserving the history of the Holocaust. Our museum honors the victims, celebrate the survivors, and strive to educate all our visitors about the dangers of prejudice and complacency to prevent such atrocities from happening again.

We are proud to house and offer, the Dimensions in Testimony, https://www.vaholocaust.org/dimensions-in-testimony/ which features four Holocaust survivors and one US Liberator with whom visitors can interact, ask questions, and hear their stories about topics like life before the war, hiding, experiences in concentration camps, life after the war, forgiveness, family, and more.

The Dimension in Testimony is a collection from USC Shoah Foundation that enable people to have conversations with pre-recorded video images of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses to genocide - here is a link to featured survivors: https://www.vaholocaust.org/bios/

An initiative by USC Shoah Foundation to record and display testimony in a way that will preserve the dialogue between Holocaust Survivors and learners far into the future. Collaborating within the project are Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, with technology by USC Institute for Creative Technologies, and concept by Conscience Display. Funding for Dimensions in Testimony℠ was provided in part by Pears Foundation, Louis. F. Smith, Melinda Goldrich and Andrea Clayton/Goldrich Family Foundation in honor of Jona Goldrich, and Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. Other partners include CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center.

We welcome you to not only explore the Virginia Holocaust Museums various exhibits, but we especially look forward to showing you our Dimensions in Testimony collection - a must see!  https://www.vaholocaust.org/