U.S. Holocaust museum gets 30 millionth visitor

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum welcomed its 30 millionth visitor last week.

Estelle Laughlin, a Holocaust survivor and museum volunteer, reflected on the milestone in a video posted on the museum’s Web site.

“The museum to me represents the conscience of our nation. It represents the conscience of humanity,” she said. “Thirty million people who come here represent the voice and the witness of what America stands for, the best that is in us.”

The museum opened in April 1993. Its guests have included 8 million schoolchildren, 88 heads of state and some 3,500 foreign officials from more than 130 different countries, according to NBC Washington. — jta