History
The Museum of Jewish Heritage was incorporated and chartered in 1984, dedicated in 1986, and built between 1994 and 1997 in New York City's Battery Park City. The Museum's $21.5 million building, designed by architect Kevin Roche opened to the public on September 15, 1997.
Its origins go back to Mayor Ed Koch's appointment of a Task Force on the Holocaust in 1981. The Task Force recommended the creation of a Museum. The New York City Holocaust Memorial Commission, established in 1982, was reincorporated in 1986 as the New York Holocaust Memorial Commission, with Governor Mario Cuomo and Mayor Ed Koch, as well as George Klein, Robert M. Morgenthau and Manfred Ohrenstein and Peter Cohen as chairmen of its board.
In 1990, the Museum merged with the Center for Holocaust Studies in Brooklyn. Architect Kevin Roche begin designing the Museum in 1993. In the same year, Howard J. Rubinstein also joined the Museum's board.
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