Why was a big holocaust museum built in Washington DC?

Question

Whose idea was it, and who paid for it?

Answer 1

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I worked on it in 92, installing all the flooring including the stage, had daily bomb threats, so bad that the Bureau of Engraving(paper money is made) next door across the alley walled up their side with heavy steel just in case, we had heard they had bombed the one in Europe.

Answer 2

many countries including the USA rejected Jewish refugees from the Nazis ;research the Voyage of the Damned!!

Answer 3

Here you go, there answers you want are in the museum's FAQs.

http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/faq/details....