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Press Kit
GENERAL MUSEUM INFORMATION
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FACTS AND FIGURES
THE EXPERIENCE BEGINS WITHIN OUR WALLS
THE IMPACT EXTENDS FAR BEYOND THEM
Since opening in 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has welcomed more than 27 million visitors from all walks of life and reached millions more through a growing range of outreach programs The Museum’s programs have a meaningful, enduring impact on the individuals who participate in them- students, teachers, law enforcement officers, students at military academies, and others.
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VISITORS AND SUPPORTERS
- Visitors: More than 27 million, including 8 million schoolchildren. Current non-Jewish visitation is about 90%.
- International leaders: 88 heads of state/ government; more than 3,500 officials from 132 countries.
- Members: 145,000.
- Volunteers: More than 400, including 85 Holocaust survivors, donating more than 60,000 hours of service annually; nearly 50 interns annually.
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LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS
Law Enforcement and Society, developed in conjunction with the Anti-Defamation League, is a program for police officers that teaches the history of the Holocaust, examines the role of police in Nazi Europe and explores the challenges of balancing the rights of individuals with the protection of the society as a whole.
- Police officers and the FBI: more than 32,000 police officers and recruits; 7,000 FBI agents.
- Judges: 300 Maryland State Judges and similar programs for the New York and Illinois benches.
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MIDSHIPMEN AND WEST POINT CADETS
Thousands of these future military leaders visit the Museum as part of their education.
- Naval Academy: All plebes visit the Museum, approximately 1,200 annually.
- West Point: Nearly 100 cadets tour the Museum each year.
- U.S. Coast Guard Academy: About 30 Coast Guard Cadets visit the museum annually.
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STUDENTS
Bringing the Lessons Home: Holocaust Education for the Community, a student-driven program, provides an opportunity for Washington, DC-area, high school students to learn Holocaust history, share it with their community and apply the lessons to their lives.
- Visits: More than 70,000 students, teachers and parents have toured the Museum.
- Internships: 364 students have completed intensive after-school courses at the Museum, including an independent study project, and earned summer internships to work in various Museum departments, such as Education, Visitor Services, Oral History and the Committee on Conscience, which addresses issues of contemporary genocide.
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EDUCATORS
The Museum provides in-depth training to experienced and novice Holocaust educators both on-site and through programs nationwide.
- Belfer Conferences: 3,215 teachers from all 50 states have attended these annual training sessions.
- Museum Teacher Fellows: A national corps of 246 experienced educators from 50 states and the District of Columbia who serve as leaders in Holocaust education in their communities, participate in Museum teacher training programs and serve as mentors to other educators.
- Regional Education Corps 30 highly trained educators nationwide who bring Holocaust education to their schools and communities.
- Workshops: More than 100 education workshops in 46 states ranging from Vermont to California, Alaska to Florida.
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NATIONAL OUTREACH
- Holocaust survivors: Through the Museum’s Office of Survivor Affairs, Museum survivor volunteers have spoken to thousands of people in Washington, D.C. and throughout the country. These diverse audiences include students and teachers/faculty at schools, colleges and universities; military bases, West Point, and the U.S. Naval Academy; government agencies; regional teacher training workshops organized by the Museum; and a wide variety of public forums in communities with little or no access to eyewitness accounts of this history.
- Traveling exhibitions: Since 1991, eight exhibitions have traveled to 131 cities in 40 states, to Canada and to Germany.
- Web site: In 2007, more than 23 million visits from every country except North Korea. Portions of the Web site are available in French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Russian, and additional languages are in development.
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CENTER FOR ADVANCED HOLOCAUST STUDIES (CAHS)
- CAHS has hosted 267 research fellows from 25 countries since 1994.
- University/College Campus Visiting Lectures: 401 visits to 41 states, the District of Columbia and Canada since 2001.
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COLLECTIONS
- Artifacts and Artwork: More than 12,530 items.
- Archival materials: 46 million pages of documents in addition, the museum recently received 68 million pages of documents from ITS (International Tracing Service.)
- Reference photographs: More than 79,000; over 17,000 publicly available on Museum Web site.
- The Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors: 197,631 survivors and their families; from 48 states and 59 countries.
- Oral histories: More than 9,000.
- Film & Video: Over 1000 hours of historical footage; 220 hours from outtakes from the Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection; 250 hours available online (http://resources.ushmm.org/film.)
- Library holdings: More than 79,000 items in 55 languages.
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SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS
- A Dangerous Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
- Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936
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Wexner Learning Center
- Witness to History: Documenting the Path of American Liberators.
- Genocide Emergency- Darfur, Sudan: Who Will Survive Today?
- The Nuremberg Trials: What is Justice?
- State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda (Opening January 2009)
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REFERENCE SERVICES
- Archives: 17,000 requests annually.
- Photographic reference: 1,750 requests annually.
- Library: 11,000 requests annually.
- Film & Video: 900 requests annually.
- Senior Historian’s office: Over 850 requests annually.
- The Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors: 40,000 requests annually, in addition, the museum has received about 6,000 ITS research requests.
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ADMINISTRATION
- Base operating budget: $73.2 million for FY08 ($44.8 Federal; $28.4 private).
- Staff: Nearly 400 staff; 125 contractors (security and cleaning services).
- Regional Development Offices: New York City; Boca Raton, Florida; Chicago; Los Angeles; Dallas; Boston.
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Related Links
Plan a visit
Belfer Conference
Professional Development
Bringing the Lessons Home
Wexner Learning Center
Survivor Affairs
Registry
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