Holocaust Center Raises Over $850,000 As Plans for New Ivanhoe Village Museum Move Forward

The Holocaust Memorial Resource Education Center of Florida raised more than $850,000 during its annual White Rose Tribute on Wednesday, November 4, at Steinmetz Hall inside the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The evening celebrated 40 years since the museum opened in 1986 and honored philanthropist Bruce Gould with the Tess Wise White Rose Award. Gould also chairs the capital campaign for the planned Holocaust Museum for Hope Humanity in Ivanhoe Village. During the event, museum leaders shared that school field trips at the current Maitland location are fully booked for the remainder of the school year. The facility can accommodate approximately 5,000 visiting students annually, while the new museum is expected to welcome more than 30,000 students each year. That expansion is moving closer to reality. The planned 25,345-square-foot museum will transform the former Orlando Chamber of Commerce building at 75 S. Ivanhoe Boulevard into a facility roughly 3.5 t