Presented the Pinnacle Award for our outstanding videoconferencing program from the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration for two consecutive years. HMTC preserves Holocaust Survivor’s testimony and ensures that students are able to hear first-hand testimony from Survivors and their descendants. HMTC provides educational programming that empowers students and adults to safely and effectively combat antisemitism, bullying and bias in their schools and communities. Here are just a few of the many reasons to support HMTC:Īntisemitism, hate speech and other acts of hate are on the rise on Long Island and throughout the region. HMTC needs your support now more than ever to be able to continue to provide Holocaust and Tolerance Education Programming to students and adults. When you support the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center with your tax-deductible gift, you help preserve the history of the Holocaust by honoring the victims and by teaching lessons that combat hatred, intolerance and bullying.
Featuring a contemporary museum, the Center is one of the largest and most comprehensive providers of Holocaust and Tolerance education programs in the region. He and Lore devoted their lives to family and extensive philanthropy.Founded over 25 years ago, the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County is the preeminent Holocaust resource on Long Island. After the war, he founded Alpha Chemical & Plastics in Newark, and ten years later founded Mercer Plastics Company, based in Florida. He was one of the “Ritchie Boys,” a group of German-speaking soldiers who received special training at Camp Ritchie in Maryland, and was awarded a Bronze Star for his service. Eric and Lore were reunited as young refugees in New York.Įric returned to Europe in 1942 as a soldier in the U.S. She was able to escape and fled over the Pyrenees Mountains, ending up in Lisbon, and from there made it to America. As a stateless person, she was sent to a camp at Gurs in southern France. Shortly after that, Lore Blumenthal, whom Eric had known in Germany, left for Paris. In 1938, he fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the U.S. Bush.Įric Ross was born in Dortmund, Germany. These challenge grants raised more than $4 million and resulted in 1,500 new Museum donors.Įric Ross also held a leadership role in the institution, having been appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council in 2003 by President George W. In addition to these unparalleled gifts, during their lifetimes, they made a unique contribution to the Museum by sponsoring four challenge grants, offering to match others’ donations to the Museum. Over the next eight years, the Museum’s goal is to raise an additional $200 million for its endowment fund. This gift will support the Museum’s endowment fund, which will provide permanent resources to secure the Museum’s future and global impact, ensuring that the timeless lessons of the Holocaust remain a transformative force in the 21st century. In total, they have contributed more than $30 million to the Museum.
Eric and his late wife, Lore, both of whom were refugees from Nazi Germany, donated more than $12 million to the institution during their lifetimes. It is the largest single gift to the institution. Ross of Palm Beach, FL, and West Orange, NJ. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has received a gift of $17.2 million from the estate of Eric F.
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