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