The United States Holocaust Memorial Council has a new executive director, with President Reagan’s appointment of Richard Krieger, a former director of Jewish affairs in the Republican National Committee and, most recently, a State Department official
Krieger, who has also served as executive director of Jewish Federations in the U.S., wrote the original proposal for the creation of the Council, which was established by Congress in 1980 under the chairmanship of writer and Holocaust
The Council was created to coordinate "a campaign to remember," raising funds for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, which is expected to be completed in December 1988.
To date the Council has raised some $25 million — enough for construction of the building which members expect to get underway sometime soon. Although they estimate about another $75 million as the cost for completing the museum,
The Council also sponsors the commemoration of Days of Remembrance — a Holocaust memorial observance held annually at the Capitol on Yom Hashoa, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
OTHER GOALSOF THE COUNCIL
But Krieger said the Council would be pursuing other goals as well, such as expanding
The Council also plans to create a Committee on Conscience that would receive information on genocide or potential genocide anywhere in the world and for dissemination to the U.S. government.
"The issues raised by the Holocaust and by the other Nazi genocides are not just an issue for Jewish Americans but for all Americans," Krieger said. "This museum is of concern not only to Americans. The issues
Krieger will be succeeding Rabbi Seymour Siegel, Professor of Theology and Ethics at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
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