Virginia Holocaust Museum

Virginia Holocaust Museum The Virginia Holocaust Museum is committed to Holocaust education and honoring Holocaust victims.

Located in downtown Richmond, the Museum details the Holocaust while telling stories of local Survivors. We are open year-round except for Easter, the first day of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

Are you a Holocaust survivor—or a child, grandchild, or great-grandchild of one?We invite you to take part in the Legacy...
09/02/2026

Are you a Holocaust survivor—or a child, grandchild, or great-grandchild of one?

We invite you to take part in the Legacy Portrait Project, a Museum initiative documenting survivors and their families. ing survivors and their familiy in Virginia.

Portrait sessions will take place across the Commonwealth of Virginia - in Richmond, Tidewater, Roanoke, Charlottesville and Northern Virginia. There is no cost to participate.

The completed portraits will be exhibited next year at the Virginia Holocaust Museum and at locations across the Commonwealth.

Be photographed. Be remembered. Help ensure these stories endure.
Sign up through our website to reserve your portrait session or visit: https://www.vaholocaust.org/legacy_interest_form/

September 1, 1939 - Germany Invades Poland On this date, World War II began with the N**i invasion of Poland. Polish for...
09/01/2026

September 1, 1939 - Germany Invades Poland

On this date, World War II began with the N**i invasion of Poland. Polish forces were vastly outnumbered by the N**is (and by the Soviets who would invade Poland from the east two weeks later), and by early October Poland was divided between the N**is and Soviets. Nearly 3 million Jews lived in Poland, a number which, from the N**is viewpoint, required a shift in tactics regarding the Jewish Question. Up until this point, the N**is had targeted Jews with ostracization, harassment, and legal measures aimed at subjugating them. From September of 1939 onward, the focus would become and remain extermination.

Picture: Hi**er (bottom right) salutes victorious German troops in Warsaw on October 5, 1939.

Something exciting is happening at the Virginia Holocaust Museum today!Large graphics are being installed in our reimagi...
09/01/2026

Something exciting is happening at the Virginia Holocaust Museum today!

Large graphics are being installed in our reimagined Kristallnacht exhibit. Four years ago, the previous exhibit was damaged by water, and since then, we’ve spent a LOT of time designing, rethinking and imagining what this space could become.

One of the most special parts will be an alcove dedicated to Holocaust survivor Alexander Lebenstein, who was just 11 years old on Kristallnacht.

The graphics are going in today, but we still have a few weeks to go as the fixtures, lighting and finishing touches are added.

After four years, it is pretty amazing to finally see this space come to life.

If you haven't visited the museum in a while, now is the perfect time!

This September, meet Alan Moskin.At 18, he was part of the unit that liberated Gunskirchen concentration camp — one of t...
09/01/2026

This September, meet Alan Moskin.

At 18, he was part of the unit that liberated Gunskirchen concentration camp — one of the first Americans to witness what had happened there. He spent the rest of his life making sure people never looked away from it.

Now, using Dimensions in Testimony, you can ask him your own questions and hear him answer — in his own words, in real time.

Alan is the first in our new monthly Featured Witness series at VHM. Free with admission, all September.

Today is the last day this month to ask Eva Kor your question — and get her answer.Step into our Dimensions in Testimon...
09/01/2026

Today is the last day this month to ask Eva Kor your question — and get her answer.

Step into our Dimensions in Testimony Theater for a rare kind of conversation: one where you ask the questions, and history answers back.

Sit down with Eva Kor, a survivor of Auschwitz's most notorious experiments — her responses drawn from hours of recorded testimony, pulled up in real time by whatever you want to know.

No two conversations are the same. Each one is shaped by the people in the room.
Showings run daily, on the hour, 11 AM – 3 PM (30–45 minutes)

Seating is by reservation — stop by our front desk when you arrive

This is one of the only ways left to ask a survivor your own question and hear them answer. Don't miss it.

Last year, over 7,000 students walked through our doors on a field trip to learn about the Holocaust. That's 7,000 stude...
08/30/2026

Last year, over 7,000 students walked through our doors on a field trip to learn about the Holocaust.

That's 7,000 students who left with a deeper understanding of history, empathy, and why "never again" still matters today.

Now's the perfect time to book your class's fall visit — spots are filling up fast, and we don't want your students to miss out on this powerful learning experience.

📅 https://www.vaholocaust.org/school-field-trip-request/

This August, ask Eva Kor your question — and get her answer.Step into our Dimensions in Testimony Theater for a rare kin...
08/29/2026

This August, ask Eva Kor your question — and get her answer.
Step into our Dimensions in Testimony Theater for a rare kind of conversation: one where you ask the questions, and history answers back.

Sit down with Eva Kor, a survivor of Auschwitz's most notorious experiments — her responses drawn from hours of recorded testimony, pulled up in real time by whatever you want to know.

No two conversations are the same. Each one is shaped by the people in the room.
Showings run daily, on the hour, 11 AM – 3 PM (30–45 minutes)
Seating is by reservation — stop by our front desk when you arrive
This is one of the only ways left to ask a survivor your own question and hear them answer. Don't miss it.

On this day in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and reminded us that hate ca...
08/28/2026

On this day in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and reminded us that hate cannot be defeated with more hate — only love has that power.

His words carry the same weight today as they did over 60 years ago. As we reflect on the history of hatred and discrimination that we work to teach and prevent, we hold onto this truth: light and love are still the answer.

August 27, 1941 - Kamenets-Podolsk Massacre Between August 26-28, 1941, Einsatzgruppen and local police units murdered 2...
08/27/2026

August 27, 1941 - Kamenets-Podolsk Massacre

Between August 26-28, 1941, Einsatzgruppen and local police units murdered 23,600 Jews at Kamanets-Podolsk, a city in the former Soviet Ukraine. Nearly 70% of the city’s Jews—men, women, and children—were shot and left in mass graves. The Massacre at Kamenets-Podolsk is recognized as the first large-scale killing of the Holocaust by Bullet, the N**i goal of addressing the so-called “Jewish Question” through massive shooting operations across Eastern Europe. Although open-air pit shootings ultimately were replaced by gassing as the preferred method of industrialized killing, roughly 1.5 million people were murdered by firing squad between 1941 and the war’s end.

Photo: Jews await ex*****on at Kamenets-Podolsk.

Photo Credit: US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ivan Sved

Four years ago, water damage shut down our Kristallnacht exhibit. Today, we're rebuilding it — and the storefront going ...
08/27/2026

Four years ago, water damage shut down our Kristallnacht exhibit. Today, we're rebuilding it — and the storefront going up right now stopped us in our tracks too.

It looks like a real shop pulled straight from 1938 Germany. It's not. It's a hand-built reproduction of a storefront vandalized by the N**is — whose original owner survived, escaped, and eventually settled right here in Richmond.

The team at Crux Scenic, a Richmond-based studio that builds sets and display pieces for museums, theater, and more, spent three weeks bringing it to life: wood framing, hand-sculpted urethane "stone," epoxy clay detailing, a faux stucco finish painted to look exactly like weathered brick — even the windows, which look like glass but are actually acrylic, so the piece can stand up to years of visitors.

We caught one of the builders right after installation to talk about how it came together.

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2000 East Cary Street
Richmond, VA
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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
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