Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
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 Location of LAMOTH in Los Angeles
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| Established | 1961 |
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Pan Pacific Park 100 S The Grove Dr Fairfax District, Los Angeles,, CA 90036 |
| Coordinates | 34°04′29″N 118°21′22″W / 34.074609°N 118.356230°W |
| Website | www |
The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) is a museum in Pan Pacific Park, within the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, California
It is dedicated to the remembrance and preservation of the history, stories, victims, and tragic events of the Holocaust during World War II. Founded in 1961, the museum is purported to be the oldest museum of its kind in the United States.
LAMOTH is always free for visitors and students because the founding survivors insisted that no one ever be turned away from learning about the Holocaust.
In 1961, a group of Holocaust survivors at Hollywood High School taking English as a second language classes found one another and shared their experiences. They discovered that each of them had a photograph, concentration camp uniform, or other precious primary source object from the Holocaust era. They decided that these artifacts needed a permanent home where they could be displayed safely and in perpetuity. They also wanted a place to memorialize their dead and help to educate the world so that no one would ever forget. Some of these founding survivors remain active on the LAMOTH Board of Directors today.
On October 14, 2010, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust opened the doors to its new building in Pan Pacific Park. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, with museum representatives and Holocaust survivors, opened the doors. City officials including City Council President Eric Garcetti, Councilmember Tom LaBonge, Assemblyman Michael Feuer and Supervisor Zev Yaroslovsky also participated in the opening ceremony.
“I have the privilege to walk through the museum's doors every day. We live at an important time in post-Holocaust history. In Los Angeles, the second largest Holocaust survivor community in our country and the fifth in the world, we live among an extraordinary group of elders. In the Museum, these survivors speak daily about this chapter in modern history that is both unprecedented and lifetimes late, still equally incomprehensible and heartbreaking,” said Samara Hutman, previous Executive Director of LAMOTH.
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