March 12, 2020
As concern about the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues, in the interest of preventing community spread, The Florida Holocaust Museum is temporarily closed to the public. We look forward to announcing the reopening of the Museum and rescheduling our programming. Why is The Florida Holocaust Museum temporarily closing? As always, the health and safety of our visitors, volunteers, and […]
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March 10, 2020
Here at The Florida Holocaust Museum, education is and has always been one of our top priorities. In order to successfully complete our mission of teaching members of all races and cultures the inherent worth and dignity of human life, we offer a wide variety of educational programs and events. One such program is a monthly […]
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February 28, 2020
Sara M. McDonald, Special Projects Coordinator What gives you hope for the future? It’s a question many of us ask ourselves repeatedly. Hope. It’s such a powerful and timeless word. If you look back throughout history you can find pieces of hope scattered throughout, and one could say it is the very root of […]
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December 11, 2019
***STATEMENT ON HOLOCAUST DENIAL*** The Florida Holocaust Museum has issued the following statement: On April 12, 1945, General Dwight D. Eisenhower entered Buchenwald. He described what he saw as “beyond the American mind to comprehend.” He immediately ordered photographs to be taken, afraid that someday people might deny the existence of barbarity at such scale. He wanted […]
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November 1, 2019
Sara M. McDonald, Special Projects Coordinator When Eula Mae Mitchell Perry started working here at The Florida Holocaust Museum in October 2016, she had no idea what her new job would have in store for her. She started out working on the Visitor’s Welcome Team, but quickly became an integral part of The FHM family […]
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October 25, 2019
Sara M. McDonald, Special Projects Coordinator Bill White didn’t plan on breaking barriers in baseball, but it just happened. Coming from a family of sharecroppers, Bill White’s education was of the upmost priority, especially to his mother, Edna Mae Young. She wanted him to become a doctor. So, he went to Ohio State […]
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October 21, 2019
Sara M. McDonald, Special Projects Coordinator On October 27, 2018 antisemitism and hatred reared its ugly head in the form of the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States, when a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and left eleven members dead and six injured. In the hours […]
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October 2, 2019
The Florida Holocaust Museum is saddened by the recent passing of Holocaust Survivor Philip L. Gans. Philip Gans was born in Amsterdam, Holland on January 23, 1928. His father owned a successful textile business and Philip was the youngest of three children. Following the defeat of the Dutch and the subsequent occupation by German forces in 1940, […]
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September 17, 2019
The Florida Holocaust Museum is saddened by the recent passing of Marietta Sobel Drucker. Marietta left her homeland of Vienna, Austria at the age of nine on the Kindertransport. After arriving in Great Britain, she was greeted by the first of six foster families that she was placed with over the next six years. Both her mother […]
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August 7, 2019
The Florida Holocaust Museum’s mission is to honor the memory of millions of innocent men, women and children who suffered or died in the Holocaust. The Museum is dedicated to teaching the members of all races and cultures the inherent worth and dignity of human life in order to prevent future genocides. In order to […]
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