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2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT Focusing Global Attention on Propaganda:­­ The Museum’s State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda exhibition in Paris, France IN A DANGEROUS WORLD experiencing a rise in antisemitism, hate, and extremism, the Museum’s work, and our ability to be responsive to new developments, takes on ever greater urgency. Thanks to your generous support, this past year the Museum was on the front lines— teaching the lessons of the Holocaust and their continued relevance to an expanding global audience. Students at a French high school were among the first to get a guided tour of the special exhibition State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda when it opened in Paris. A series of exhibition-related posters is available in 10 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, and Spanish, and can be downloaded for free from the Museum’s website. Vincent Huber for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Dear Friends, The entries of the international “Holocaust cartoon contest” lined the walls of a gallery in Tehran, but the hate-filled images were also spreading across social media into the hands of impressionable youth. The Museum’s condemnation, swift and targeted, was featured on Iranwire’s website and social channels—an independent online news service published to circumvent the regime’s control of the Internet— and a Museum partner in developing Persian-language resources to bring the truth The National Campus Leaders Summit to the people of Iran. brought student leaders from ten universities to dive deep into the This is just one of the many ways in which the Museum seeks to teach the lessons history of the Holocaust and explore its of the Holocaust and their continued relevance to an expanding global audience. relevance for today’s college students. Below: Holocaust survivor Alfred RAISING AWARENESS GLOBALLY As part of our initiative on the dangers of propaganda Münzer spoke at an event hosted by in the age of the Internet, our exhibition State of Deception: The Power of Nazi the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and US House of Propaganda opened at the Paris City Hall in January—it’s now traveling to three Representatives Foreign Affairs additional venues across France. We partnered with the European Commission in Committee to recognize the atrocities Brussels to host a film screening of Denial and a public discussion on attempts to and crimes against humanity suffered distort the truth in the very lands where the Holocaust happened. Our multilingual by Syrian civilians. online Holocaust Encyclopedia, the definitive digital resource on the Holocaust for students and educators, had 18 million visitors last year from some 200 countries. More than 150 cartoons comprised the May 2016 exhibition in Tehran and spread ENGAGING YOUTH We continued to expand the network of American college students like wildfire on the Internet and social media. who are being challenged to think critically about why and how the Holocaust happened and inspired to combat hate in their communities. In conjunction with Seattle-based Citizen University, our William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education hosted a National Campus Leaders Summit with student leaders from ten universities across the country. The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies created a new digital learning tool—Experiencing History—giving college faculty and students access to original documentation from the period. WORKING WITH LEADERS Engaging those responsible for shaping society is core to our mission. Our Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide continued its research and public outreach efforts to highlight the ongoing genocidal crimes of ISIS and the war crimes of Syria’s Assad regime. This included hosting a series of bipartisan briefings on Capitol Hill with photographic evidence of atrocities perpetrated against Syrian civilians, which was smuggled out of the country by a former Syrian military photographer. 2 UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM ushmm.org UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | 2016–17 ANNUAL REPORT 3 PRESERVING TRUTH The Museum’s greatest asset is the collection of record on the Holocaust. This spring the Museum’s National Institute for Holocaust Documentation moved into its new home with the dedication of the David and Fela Shapell Family Collections, Conservation and Research Center. This center will enable the Museum to continue to build, preserve, and make this body of evidence globally accessible and will serve as a dynamic hub for education and scholarship. The Museum’s greatest challenge and responsibility is keeping this singular event relevant for the future. That demands that we continue to explore the complex questions Holocaust history raises. As we approach our 25th anniversary in spring European Commission Vice President Frans 2018, we will open our next 25 years true to that legacy, with a special exhibition on Timmermans joined historian Deborah Lipstadt Americans and the Nazi threat. and Museum director Sara Bloomfield for a discussion and screening in Brussels of the film Denial. ©European Union, 2017/Source: We will accelerate our efforts to rescue the evidence of the Holocaust, generate new EC-Audiovisual Service/Photo: Lukasz Kobus scholarship, confront denial and dangerous antisemitism, reach young people in the Below: Scholars participating in a Mandel Center United States and abroad, and be a voice for victims today that was denied the Jews workshop examined rare photographic evidence of Europe. with Museum professionals at the recently opened Shapell Center. As in all of our work, we seek to challenge assumptions, deepen understanding, and provoke important questions. If we want the future to be different from the past, people need to see this history as relevant to their lives—especially young people. This is what your support makes possible. Thank you for your continued generosity. A student leader who participated in one of our leadership summits said it better than we can... “We’re the next people who are going to be in charge of this world. Thank you for giving us the tools... I know we can create positive change for the future.” Howard M. Lorber Allan M. Holt Tom A. Bernstein Sara J. Bloomfield Chairman Vice Chairman Chairman Emeritus Director 4 UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM ushmm.org UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | 2016–17 ANNUAL REPORT 5 CAMPAIGN LEADERSHIP GIVING FOUNDERS SOCIETY The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is grateful to the following individuals who have The Museum is deeply grateful to our leading donors, whose cumulative gifts of $1 million or more made an outright leadership campaign gift of $1 million or more since October 1, 2009. make our far-reaching impact possible. Anonymous (2) Susan and William S. Levine and Family GUARDIANS OF MEMORY PILLARS OF MEMORY Arthur and Toni Rock Robert* and Alice Abt Susan E. Lowenberg and David W. Lowenberg Gifts of $25 million or more Gifts of $2 million or more The Helena Rubinstein Foundation Miriam and Sheldon Adelson, Roberta and Irwin Chafetz, Estate of Peter H. Lowenthal Conference on Jewish Material Claims Anonymous Dennis Schuman Living Trust Against Germany Miriam and Sheldon Adelson, and Joan* and Ted* Cutler Maltz Family Foundation Schwarz Foundation Susan and William S. Levine and Family Roberta and Irwin Chafetz, Adelson Family Foundation and the Adelson Charitable The Nathan and Lilly Shapell Foundation Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation and Joan* and Ted* Cutler Foundation Eric F.* and Lore* Ross and the Shapell Guerin Family Foundation Alan and Amy Meltzer Adelson Family Foundation and Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation Michel F. Adler TRUSTEES’ CIRCLE the Adelson Charitable Foundation Jennifer Loew Mendelson and Dan Mendelson Gifts of $15 million or more The Curt C. and Else Silberman Foundation Estate of Bernard Aptaker The Annenberg Foundation Estate of Bella Mischkinsky The Hillside Foundation Deborah Simon Bildners—Joan and Allen z"l, Elisa Spungen and Rob, The Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Foundation Gary H. and Linda Z. Oberlender —Allan and Shelley Holt Robert H. Smith Family Foundation Nancy and Jim Bildners—Joan and Allen z"l, Elisa Spungen * Samerian Foundation The Elizabeth and Oliver Stanton Foundation Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Lucy and Murray Pantirer and Family and Rob, Nancy and Jim David and Fela Shapell Family Foundation Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Family The Crown Family Estate of Elizabeth and Lee Pearl Neil G. Bluhm Family Linda and Schuyler Sylvers Howard Unger and Family The Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pell Rena Rowan Damone* Victim List Project of the Swiss Banks Planethood Foundation The Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund Devinki, Pack, and Kolkin Families CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE Settlement (US District Court, Gifts of $10 million or more Estate of Suzette Derzavis EMC Corporation Michael P. Polsky Eastern District of New York, Estate of Bernard Aptaker Estate of Bernice and Louis Dozoretz, MD Honorable Edward R. Korman, presiding) Anne and Isidore Falk Charitable Foundation Benjamin and Seema Pulier Charitable Foundation Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel The Feil Family Hilda*, Otto*, Brenda, and Sandra Wolf Rafael Feferman* Joan and Robert Rechnitz and Family Foundation Howard L. and Judie Ganek Arthur and Toni Rock Marilyn and Sigi* Ziering The Feil Family Richard and Rhoda Goldman Foundation Eric F.* and Lore* Ross BENEFACTORS FOUNDERS Peter* and Adrienne Feuer Gifts of $5 million or more Leslie and Susan* Gonda Samerian Foundation Gifts of $1 million or more Amy and Mort Friedkin Albert Abramson* and Louis and Kelly Gonda Dennis Schuman Living Trust Anonymous (3) Ellen and Melvin* Gordon and Family The Crown Family The Alexander Grass Foundation Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Elinor A. Seevak Anne and Isidore Falk Carylon* and Julius* Hemmelstein Family The Alexander Grass Foundation Robert* and Alice Abt David and Fela Shapell Family Foundation Charitable Foundation Katz Family Dr. Donald and Sue Hecht Charles S.

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