The Board of Trustees of the Virginia Holocaust Museum has announced the resignation of Executive Director, Dr. Simon Sibelman. Sibelman will leave the Museum at the end of July and assume a tenured position as Leon Levine Distinguished Professor of Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies at Appalachian State University. He will also teach French Studies related to the Second World War and the Holocaust in France.

The staff of the Virginia Holocaust Museum treasures the many people who volunteer here in the building.   Whether as docents, or in various departments within the Museum, these people help us accomplish our mission of Teaching Tolerance through Education. Our volunteers help us to accomplish much of what we are able to offer for school groups as well as the general public. We recently learned that Libby, the granddaughter of one of this Museum's  family is suffering from leukemia. 

The Virginia Holocaust Museum proudly announces the latest class of trustees recently inaugurated onto its Board. “This new class of trustees is truly exceptional in their individual and collective backgrounds, their belief in service to the community and in their dedication to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and thereby to assist the Museum in achieving its goal of Tolerance Through Education,” said Dr. Simon Sibelman, the Museum’s President and Executive Director. Members of the present class are the Honorable Betsy Carr, Ms. Miriam Davidow, Professor A. E.

Current Virginia middle and high school educators who intend to teach for the next three years are invited to apply to attend a six-day class taught at the Virginia Holocaust Museum. The class is designed to educate teachers, librarians, counselors, and administrators about the Holocaust.

On 6 December 2012, the Austrian parliament unanimously resolved the deadlines for the deposit of monetary compensation for victims of National Socialism which has been awarded but could not yet be disbursed. As a result, by the end of 2018 the work of the General Settlement Fund shall be completed and the remaining funds transferred to the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for programs benefitting the victims of National Socialism.