The Holocaust Museum & Studies Center of the Bronx High School of Science

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We have heard the praises of notable people such as: Prof. Elie Wiesel, First Lady Barbara Bush, Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Governor of New York George Pataki, Mrs. Miep Gies, who hid Anne Frank (Holland), Simon Wiesenthal, The Anti-Defamation League, the Museum of Resistance and Deportation (France), the Director of the Hiroshima Museum (Japan), the British Minister of Scientific Education, the Board of Regents, the Chancellor of Education of New York State, former New York City Mayor Edward Koch, and Swiss Holocaust hero Gerhardt Riegner.

We wish to express our appreciation to the Museum's Mentors: deceased State Senator Abraham Bernstein and Prime Minister Menachem Begin, former Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir, NOBEL LAUREATE Professor Elie Wiesel, as well as: Simon Wiesenthal, Abraham H. Foxman, Gerhardt Riegner, THE ENTIRE BRONX NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION, Assemblymen Jeffrey Dinowitz and Jeffrey Klein, Superintendent of Bronx High Schools Joseph DeJesus, Mel Meehan, Carmen Vazquez-Hartman, The Parents Association and Alumni of the Bronx High School of Science, Sculptor Alexander Tibor, William Donat, the Bronx Science librarians and staff, and most especially Councilwoman June Eisland, David Kirschenbaum (deceased), former Bronx Science Principal Stanley Blumenstein, Principal Valerie Reidy, Elliot Welles, and Carole Elenko.

Their efforts and those others too numerous to mention, have made our pioneer program on of the most significant in the United States.

"THIS MUSEUM'S COLLECTION OF MATERIALS IS EXTRAORDINARY, IT IS VERY SPECIAL AND MOST IMPORTANT. IT MUST BE PRESERVED!"

            - Chaim Potok (Author) 1999

"YOUR OUTSTANDING EFFORTS IN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION IS A MODEL FOR OUR STATE."

            - New York State Governor George Pataki, 1996.

"THE VERY POWERFUL ITEMS YOU HAVE HERE AND THE WAY THEY ARE ARRANGED IS POSITIVE PROOF TO ANYONE THAT THE HOLOCAUST REALLY DID HAPPEN. THIS IS SUCH AN AMAZING LEARNING CENTER. YOU SHOULD BE MOST PROUD OF IT."

            - Barbara Bush, Former First Lady, 1991

"THE CENTER'S OUTSTANDING WORK IN EDUCATING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS HAS MADE MY JOB BOTH MORE UNDERSTANDABLE AND A LITTLE EASIER TO ACCOMPLISH. THANK YOU."

            - Neal Sher, Director, Office of Special Investigations U.S. Justice Department 1988

"THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WERE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH SO MUCH AND IN SUCH A POWERFUL WAY IN THE VERY LIMITED SPACE THAT YOU HAVE."

            - Mark Berkowitz, a surviving Dr. Mengle child experiment twin at Auschwitz, 1987

"YOUR VERY IMPORTANT MATERIALS MARK THIS PROGRAM AS A MAJOR HOLOCAUST RESOURCE IN THE U.S."

            - Menachem Begin, 1984

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Last modified: 03/06/04