by Camelia Caton-Garcia In 1939 one of our founders, Holocaust survivor Werner Gellert, fled Nazi Germany with his parents. As stateless refugees they were denied residence throughout Europe but were eventually accepted into the burgeoning European community of Shanghai, China. The Gellert family remained in Read More …

By Lyn Berner By way of Brigham Young University-Idaho, we welcome 22-year old business management major Melanie Dickson into our museum family. In a few short months using a variety of skills, including marketing, her college minor, she has researched and created proposals to bring Read More …

    Recently I was elected board president of your New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum.   It seems like only yesterday, in 2004, that Werner Gellert first asked me to serve on the board.  It’s amazing to think how far the museum has come.  I still Read More …

In an impressive ceremony, designed and led by Doris Fields, five new board members were greeted and installed, and officers were elected on January 16.  Jennie L. Negin, president for the past four-and-a-half years, told the 40 persons in attendance that she has served on Read More …