Past Tours

July 25, 2010:

The 2010 National Scout Jamboree will be held at Fort A.P. Hill, located in Northern Virginia. A contingent of Boy Scouts will visit the Museum. A special show of Jewish War Veterans and Boy Scouts at work and play will be displayed in the Museum Lobby for the month of July.

July 6, 20, 27, 2010:

Tuesdays Noontime Notes Lecture Series. 12:30–2pm; 7/6: Ethnic History and its Discontents, Part 1 – Jews in the U.S. Military; 7/20: Ethnic History and its Discontents, Part II – Black Soldiers in the Civil War; July 27: The Crisis of Islamic Civilization. Admission is free. Bring your lunch!

June 24, 2010:

Jewish Study Center class, – The Abayudaya, Jews of Uganda – check Jewish Study Center website to register. 7:15-8:30pm.

June 23, 2010:

Debbie Levy, author of A Year of Goodbyes pays a visit to the museum. Accompanying her is Jutta Salzberg, her mother and the heroine of the book. Planning for a special event/book signing in October with local day schools will be the topic at hand. Welcome Debbie and Mrs. Salzberg! For information on the book and author, click here.

May 23, 2010:

WCC American Jewish Friendship Club and White Plains Post

April 27, 2010:

Ocean/Monmouth Federation

March 22, 2010:

A delegation of Polish teachers and advisors from the State Deparment’s International Visitors Program

January 17, 2010:

Leisure World of Virginia, Northern Virginia

December 9, 2009:

12:30 pm – Leisure World of Maryland, Silver Spring, MD

1:30 pm – Charles E. Day School (Rockville, MD) Twelfth Grade students
Members of Post 592 Sheldon Goldberg and Chester Kneller will provide program of their military service in World War II and Viet Nam.

December 2, 2009:

Senior Center at Cascades, Sterling, Virginia

November 11, 2009:

Congregation Etz Hayim Religious School (VA)
The Art of Arthur Szyk: Curator of the Arthur Szyk Society (www.szyk.org), lectures on the Art of Arthur Szyk.

October 20, 2009:

Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School (CA)

September 29, 2009:

An American Girl book club — Field Trip

September 16, 2009:

Vatikim-Prime-timers from Temple Rodef Shalom

September 15, 2009:

Members of Maryland Free State JWV Post 167

May 13, 2009:

Hillel Day School of Boca Raton (FL)

April 29, 2009:

Arthur Meyer Jewish Academy of West Palm Beach Florida – 8th grade students

March 25, 2009:

Greenfield Hebrew Academy (GA)

March 6, 2009:

Professor Bruce Campbell and his students of William and Mary College, Washington DC campus, will further their studies on "the Memory and Commemoration of WWII and the Holocaust" by participating in a program hosted by museum leadership and concentration camp liberators Bernhard Storch and Alan Moskin and survivor Anita Stern.

March 3, 2009:

Elderhostel - lecture and museum tour

February 22, 2009:

Members of the Harvard Club of Washington DC

January 30, 2009:

the Israeli Embassy – Members of the Defense Attaché and their staff will host a reception and briefing from General Benjamin Gantz. Museum President, PNC David Magidson will provide the opening remarks and a brief history of the Jewish War Veterans and the Museum. Exhibits tour will follow.

January 26, 2009:

U.S. Department of State hosts an International Visitor Leadership Program for teacher-trainers from Poland. U.S. Embassy in Warsaw has nominated these visitors to participate in a program to focus on "Education and the Holocaust”. Program lead by Holocaust Camp survivor and liberator Bernhard Storch. Reception and exhibits tour.

November 13, 2008

The HAZAK chapter of congregation Kol Shalom of Rockville, MD. HAZAK is an organization of senior members (age 55 plus) of synagogues associated with the United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism (USCJ). 11am

November 9, 2008: OPEN to the Public

In Remembrance of Kristallnacht: the museum will host Dr. Louis Maier (author of From the Golden Gate to the Black Forest), who will provide a lecture on his experiences during WWII. Dr. Maier arrived in San Francisco on the Kamakura Maru in Sept. 1940 and was inducted into the army in June 1943. He saw combat when his division crossed the Moselle and Rhine rivers. As an infantry rifleman he was transferred to the CIC detachment of the 89th infantry division to serve as German interpreter. After the war he worked with the JDC and as Chaplain's assistant in Linz, Austria. He assisted Jewish survivors in the displaced person camps in Upper Austria.Throughout his army service and beyond, he searched for the fate of his parents who had been deported from Germany to France and in August 1942 "to the East". These memoirs of this experiences are described in his most recent book which will be available for sale during the lecture. See http://drmaier.home.comcast.net for more information on Dr. Maier. Lecture begins at 1pm and is open to the public. A museum tour will follow the lecture at 2pm.

November 9, 2008:

Harold E. Greenberg Post 692: Post business meeting, luncheon, lecture and tour 10:00am-3:00pm
Potomac Charter of Hadassah: 1:00pm

November 1, 2008:

Har Zion Temple, Penn Valley, Pennsylvania. Mens Club 2:00 pm.
The National Museum will host a tour of the museum to the members of the Elderhostel (Adventures in Lifelong Learning's) program: Understanding differences Across Religious Boundaries: Christianity, Judaism and Islam 3:30pm.