The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will present its National Leadership Award to Renee Firestone, Deborah Oppenheimer and Dana M. Perlman at the “2020 Los Angeles Dinner: What You Do Matters” on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Firestone, Oppenheimer and Perlman will be recognized for their contributions to preserving Holocaust history and fighting anti-Semitism, genocide and Holocaust denial.
Making a special appearance to honor her colleague and friend, actress, author and activist Jamie Lee Curtis will present the award to film and television producer Oppenheimer (“Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport,” who was twice appointed by President Barack Obama to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council in 2012 and 2017.
The museum will present the awards to Holocaust survivor Firestone, who has spent her lifetime providing a voice to Holocaust atrocities and appeared in the Academy Award-winning documentary “The Last Days” in 1998; and Perlman, an attorney and L.A. City Planning Commissioner who was appointed in 2013 by Obama to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. In 2016, Perlman became the museum’s National Legacy of Light Society Chair, which is the museum’s national planned giving and endowments recognition society.
“We are fortunate to have three outstanding recipients this year set to receive the museum’s National Leadership award,” said Marla Abraham, director of the Western Regional Office of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Each in his or her own way strives to bring awareness to the past, creates an urgency to recognize the lessons Holocaust history teaches us today and moves us toward the future, fulfilling the museum’s mission.”
The “2020 Los Angeles Dinner: What You Do Matters” is open to the public, but advance registration is required. Individual tickets are $500. The Beverly Hilton Hotel is located at 9876 Wilshire Blvd. For information, call (310)556-3222, or email western@ushmm.org.
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