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15-531: AHMA may refer to: Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award , an Austrian award given in memory of the Holocaust American Hardware Manufacturers Association , a former American trade association Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title AHMA . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

30-510: A congratulatory letter, conferred by the Australian MP Michael Danby . Virginia Holocaust Museum The VHM first opened in 1997, founded by Mark Fetter, Devorah Ben David, Jay Ipson , and Al Rosenbaum . Housed in the former Education building at Temple Beth El, the museum became an attraction for school field trips. Within a few years, the museum outgrew the space at Temple Beth El, and required additional space to handle

45-650: Is a Holocaust survivor from Lithuania , who was deported to the Kovno Ghetto at the age of six. On October 28, 2010, the Austrian ambassador to Australia, Dr. Hannes Porias, conferred the award to the Austrian-born Holocaust survivor Eva Marks in Melbourne and read a letter of congratulations from the president of the Austrian parliament, Barbara Prammer . Also the prime minister of Australia, Julia Gillard , sent

60-731: Is rooted in the acknowledgment of responsibility by the Republic of Austria for the crimes committed by the Austrian National Socialists . On October 17, 2006, the Chinese historian Pan Guang was awarded the first AHMA prize. Michael Prochazka and Austrian Servand Abroad of the Year 2006 Martin Wallner attended the reception in Shanghai. The Brazilian journalist Alberto Dines was crowned as

75-760: The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service and initiator of the AHMA. Robert Hébras is one of only six survivors of the massacre of Oradour and is still giving tours at the age of 84. For 2009 Jay M. Ipson received the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award. Austrian Ambassador to the United States of America Dr. Christian Prosl visited the Virginia Holocaust Museum and presented the award to the co-founder and Executive Director. Ipson

90-555: The AHMA 2007 winner on October 24, 2007 at the Austrian consulate in Rio de Janeiro for his effort to establish Casa Stefan Zweig , a museum devoted to Stefan Zweig in Petropolis , and his book Morte no paraíso, a tragédia de Stefan Zweig . In March 2008, Robert Hébras was assigned with the award at the Austrian embassy in Paris in presence of Beate Klarsfeld and Andreas Maislinger , founder of

105-571: The atrocities of World War II . Through exhibits, programming, and outreach, the Museum uses the history of genocide to teach the dangers of prejudice and indifference. Located on the first floor of the museum, the core exhibits narrate the history of the Holocaust. As visitors progress through these exhibits—and chronologically through the events of the Holocaust—they are presented with a glimpse into

120-561: The constant dangers Jews faced during the Holocaust. The Nuremberg Trials were the first international trials of major Nazi war criminals . As such, they served as a major source of documents and testimony for early Holocaust scholarship. The Nuremberg Courtroom exhibit gives visitors the chance to see a full recreation of Room 600 at the Palace of Justice , used during the International Military Tribunals , and to experience

135-1122: The crimes of Nazism , commemorating its victims and contributing to Jewish life. Example partner institutions are the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Poland, Yad Vashem in Israel, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in the United States, the Jewish Museum Berlin in Germany, the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Australia, the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center in Russia and the Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai in China. The Gedenkdienst service

150-802: The growing number of visitors and school groups. The Virginia General Assembly offered the American Tobacco Company Warehouse for the relocation of the museum. After restoration and reconfiguration of the building, the expanded Virginia Holocaust Museum was dedicated on Yom HaShoah , the Holocaust Day of Remembrance, 2003. The Virginia Holocaust Museum has grown steadily since 2003, and now has an average of over 42,000 visitors each year. The VHM remains an important location for Virginia field trips, with students from over 100 middle and high schools visiting yearly. The museum began an extensive ongoing exhibition renovation project in 2015. Much of

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180-565: The opportunity to enter the artifact and imagine the conditions experienced by the people transported in this type of rail car. At the center of the VHM's core exhibits is the story of a single family, the Ipsons. The Ipson Saga exhibition shares the experience of a family of local Holocaust survivors whose confinement in the Kovno Ghetto and harried escape to a farm in the Lithuanian countryside highlight

195-498: The permanent exhibition had never been updated since opening in 2003, and the renovations serve to both update the information contained with newly uncovered facts and figures, as well as update the core exhibition space to modern standards. The VHM hopes these renovations will be completed by 2020. Founded to educate the community about the tragedies of the Holocaust, the Virginia Holocaust Museum memorializes and archives

210-490: The systematic destruction of European Jewry. 300 artifacts and the testimonies of local Holocaust survivors expand upon this history, representing the tangible and personal realities of this event. In 2004, the VHM acquired an authentic "goods wagon," or freight car, used during the Third Reich . Alexander Lebenstein , a local Holocaust survivor, worked with the museum to bring this important artifact to Richmond. Visitors have

225-511: Was founded by the Austrian Service Abroad in 2006. The prize is annually conferred to a person, a group of individuals or an institution, which has shown special endeavors for the memory of the Shoah and / or made special contributions to Jewish life. Since 1992 Austria has annually sent young Austrians abroad to serve in form of Gedenkdiener in many places around the world remembering

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