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The Museum's
Role
and Relevance
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Our
founders probably did not envision that the world we live
in today would be
so plagued by hate, antisemitism, and
various forms of Holocaust denial as
well as continued
genocidal threats.
They did envision the timeless
importance and relevance
of the Holocaust as an event to be memorialized with
dignity,
researched with rigor, and taught with care so that we can
accurately remember the past and responsibly learn from it.
That vision
animates the Museum’s work today and every day.
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Dalje čitajte o Muzeju:
Forty years ago in the Report of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel, the Museum’s founding chairman, stated that the Holocaust “was a unique crime in the annals of history,” and he went on to describe the importance of its lessons for the future, asserting that the Museum should present the particularity of the Holocaust as well as its contemporary significance:
“The universal implications of the Holocaust challenge Western civilization and modern, scientific culture. What threatened one people in the past could recur to threaten another people or, indeed, all humanity.”
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