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Sara J. Bloomfield

USHMM director · United States

Affiliated with USHMM Simon-Skjodt Center / Early Warning Project

Advocacy NGO

Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; oversees genocide-prevention programming including the Simon-Skjodt Center.

Funding & financing

Federal appropriation plus private donations to USHMM.

Affiliations

USHMM executive leadership.

Disclosures & conflicts

Leads a US federally chartered museum with congressional oversight and mixed public–private funding. Museum statements on contemporary conflicts are institutional, not judicial findings.

Credibility & caveats

Institutional leadership on Holocaust memory and atrocity prevention — not a legal genocide adjudicator.

Cases in this record

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