Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

The Holocaust Museum LA announced Monday it has received a $5 million gift from The Smidt Foundation that would move the institution closer to its goal of breaking ground this summer on a campus expansion.

A virtual commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day will be conducted Sunday by the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, remembering those who perished, honoring those who survived and marking the 75th anniversary of liberation and the end of the Holocaust. The program, titled “75 Years After Liberation: Turning Memory into Action” will begin at 2 p.m. Registration can be made…