Holocaust Museum Wins Preservation Grant

From The Holocaust Museum: The Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education is proud to announce that it was awarded a generous grant to aid in the preservation of its Holocaust-era artifacts. This prestigious award from the National Endowment of the Humanities comes to the Museum at a critical time in its reconstruction. Since the Museum's founding in 1984, it has amassed a rich collection of more than 1,500 artifacts from local Holocaust survivors. Now, as the Museum undergoes renovations in its new space at Rockland Community College, this grant will provide a preservation assessment of our artifacts so that generations to come can bear witness to this history.

Museum President and Holocaust Survivor Paul Galan proclaimed, "This award from the National Endowment for the Humanities is an honor of the highest caliber for the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education. It is recognition of the work that the Museum performs in educating our community on the significance of tolerance and acceptance of one another as human beings, regardless of religious beliefs, race or cultural differences." Executive Director Andrea Winograd affirmed, "This grant is the highest recognition from the preeminent federal institution funding the humanities. We are very proud of this grant and are grateful that it will allow us to preserve this history for generations to come."

The Museum is pleased to accept this grant in partnership with Rockland Community College. The Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education is a non-profit organization dependent on support from the local community and funding agencies such as the NEH.

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