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  • HOLOCAUST RESOURCES

  • U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • 100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl., S.W.
  • Washington, DC 20024-2150
  • 202-488-0400
  • www.ushmm.org
  • Hours: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day. Extended hours, Tues. and Thurs., April through mid-June: 10 a.m. to 7:50 p.m.
  • Closed Dec. 25 and Yom Kippur.
  • America's national institution for the documentation, exhibition, study and interpretation of Holocaust history. The museum serves as this country's memorial to the millions murdered during the Holocaust; located at 14th Street and Independence Avenue.
  • Passes:
  • Admission is free but timed passes are required to visit the museum's Permanent Exhibition. All other portions of the museum may be visited without passes, including the museum's special exhibition, "Remember the Children: Daniel's Story," The Wexner Learning Center and other museum resources. For advance passes, call tickets.com at 800-400-9373, or visit www.tickets.com. There is a small service charge for passes obtained through this service. For same-day passes (up to four per person) with no service charge, visit the pass desk at the 14th Street entrance. The box office opens at 10 a.m.; lines form early. Museum members receive pass priority if they arrive before 10 a.m.
  • Group visits for 21 or more can be booked through the Museum's Group Scheduling office. All requests must be made online or in writing to Group Scheduling, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl., S.W., Washington, DC 20024-2130 or by fax to 202-488-0455. The museum recommends making group requests six to 12 months in advance.
  • Offices:
  • Chair: Fred Zeidman
  • 202-488-0400
  • Dir.: Sara Bloomfield
  • Communications:
  • 202-314-0323
  • Development:
  • 202-314-7866
  • Registry of Holocaust Survivors:
  • 202-488-0495
  • registry@ushmm.org
  • Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies:
  • Paul Shapiro
  • 202-488-6566
  • pshapiro@ushmm.org
  • Speakers Bureau:
  • 202-314-0399
  • speakerbureau@ushmm.org

  • HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TRACING

  • American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors
  • 122 West 30th St., Suite 205
  • New York, NY 10001
  • 212-239-4230
  • fax 212-279-2926
  • Pres.: Benjamin Meed
  • mail@americangathering.org
  • Represents more than 170,000 survivors of the Holocaust who have settled in America and Canada. Registry to document where people were from; tracing; documentation organization as well.

  • American Red Cross Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center
  • 4800 Mt. Hope Dr.
  • Baltimore, MD 21215-3231
  • 410-624-2090
  • fax 410-764-7664
  • Tracing and documentation for civilians separated from loved ones between 1933 and 1957 due to the events of the Holocaust and its aftermath, and proof of internment/evacuation for survivors seeking reparations.

  • The Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora
  • Tel Aviv, Israel 61392
  • 972-3-640-5500/93
  • fax 972-3-640-5727
  • bhgnlgy@post.tau.ac.il
  • www.bh.org.il/genealogy
  • Computerized database of Jewish family trees from around the world that currently lists almost 2 million names. Families can search for information and can register their family trees.

  • HOLOCAUST MISSIONS

  • Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization
  • In conjunction with Jewish Labor Organization
  • 212-239-4230
  • fax 212-279-2926
  • Contact: Benjamin Meed
  • Annual remembrance of the Warsaw Ghetto.

  • HOLOCAUST SUPPORT GROUPS

  • Association of Child Survivors in the Washington-Baltimore Area
  • www.wfjcsh.org
  • Support group for Jewish individuals who were children in Europe during the Holocaust.

  • Generation After, Inc. (Children of Holocaust Survivors and Friends)
  • P.O. Box 5854
  • Rockville, MD 20855
  • 301-933-4716
  • www.goecities.com/genafter
  • etfinder@juno.com
  • Pres.: Esther Finder
  • Group for children of Holocaust survivors and friends dedicated to the remembrance of the Holocaust through community service and applicable programs.

  • Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Friends of Greater Washington
  • Co-Pres.: Nesse Godin, Flora Singer
  • Call Jewish Information and Referral Service at 301-770-4848, where somone on staff will contact the presidents. Offers speakers (case-by-case basis for personal interviews); promotes remembrance of the Holocaust; bar/bat mitzvah Remember a Child program.

  • HOLOCAUST RESOURCE COLLECTION

  • Holocaust Resource Collection Center for Judaic and Educational Resources (and Isaac Franck Collection)
  • Partnership for
  • Jewish Life and Learning
  • 12230 Wilkins Ave.
  • Rockville, MD 20852
  • 240-283-6311
  • fax 240-283-6201
  • www.pjll.org
  • Resource Specialist: Rena Fruchter
  • Books, music, DVDs, videos and teaching materials on the Holocaust.

  • HOLOCAUST REPARATIONS AND CLAIMS

  • United Restitution Organization
  • 570 7th Ave., Room 1100
  • New York, NY 10018
  • 212-921-3860
  • fax 212-575-1918
  • uronewyork@yahoo.com
  • Provides legal assistance to victims of Nazi persecution who are registering claims for German Social Security.
  • Call or e-mail for eligibility information and appointments.

  • Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc.
  • 15 E. 26th St., Room 906
  • New York, NY 10010
  • 646-536-9100
  • fax 212-679-2126
  • www.claimscon.org
  • info@claimscon.org
  • Works to secure compensation and restitution for survivors of the Holocaust and heirs of victims. Since 1951, the Claims Conference, working in partnership with the State of Israel, has negotiated for and distributed payments from Germany, Austria, other governments, and certain industry; recovered unclaimed German Jewish property; and funded programs to assist the neediest Jewish victims of Nazism.

  • HOLOCAUST TWINNING

  • Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Friends of Greater Washington
  • 301-881-2454
  • Contact: Sam Spiegel, chair of Remember a Child Project of the Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Friends of Greater Washington.
  • Remember A Child Project; bar/bat mitzvah twinning. No charge, donation accepted. Symbolically twin with child who has perished in the Holocaust. Scroll of remembrance is sent to bar/bat mitzvah to commemorate this occasion. The bar/bat mitzvah can select the country of the perished child if the family has a preference.