With an urgency to preserve memory and modernize as the remaining Holocaust survivors enter their 80s and 90s, at least half a dozen Holocaust museums are being built or plan to break ground, according to an article in The New York Times. 

Steven Spielberg’s U.S.C. Shoah Foundation, founded in 1994 to record survivors’ stories, is teaming with the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida to build a museum in Orlando that will showcase the foundation’s library of 55,000 survivor video testimonies and also have high-tech virtual installations to appeal to younger people. Seventy six years after Auschwitz was liberated, there are an estimated 350,000 living Holocaust survivors, and the Shoah Foundation is scrambling to record their stories.

Of the 16 Holocaust museums in the United States, some are teaming with the Shoah Foundation and also looking to delve into related topics like injustice and bigotry in order to reach wider non-Jewish audiences by tackling topics beyond the Holocaust.

Other museums partnering with the Shoah Foundation include the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum and the Holocaust Museum LA. Those expanding their mission include the Holocaust Museum Houston and the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. The City of Miami Beach and Greater Miami Jewish Federation aim to add to a Holocaust memorial, incorporating Shoah Foundation videos and an educational space.