Quoit Club | Virginia Holocaust Museum

The Membership Drive is a FREE event open to everyone interested in joining the 2016 season.
Registration is required. RSVP to [email protected] or 804.643.7407.

The Virginia Holocaust Museum was founded in 1997 by Mark Fetter, Al Rosenbaum, and one of Richmond’s youngest Holocaust survivors, Jay Ipson, in an effort to preserve and educate people on the atrocities of the Holocaust. Housed in five rooms in Temple Beth El’s former Brown Education Building, the exhibits immediately attracted substantial numbers of visitors, notably school children.

Three years after the dream became a reality, the Museum required additional space to house exhibits and to handle guests. The Virginia General Assembly stepped forward and offered the Museum the abandoned “Climax” American Tobacco Company Warehouse known as the “extra attic.” Located in Richmond’s historic Shockoe Bottom, the restoration and reconfiguration of the new interior space took almost three years to achieve. The expanded Museum was dedicated in 2003 and has continued to educate the public, seeking to touch both the heart and the mind.