In October 2001, faulty wiring in one of the exhibits started a fire and the facility was destroyed, as were 80% of the exhibits and artifacts on display. In response to the tragedy, the museum rebounded by first developing a “mobile museum” to be taken to area schools and focus groups, and eventually re-establishing the museum in a temporary site located in downtown El Paso. Before the fire, EPHM possessed one of the most extensive collections of Holocaust artifacts in the country besides the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). It has rebuilt its collection and continues to receive artifacts from the ghettos, concentration camps and killing fields of World War II from individual donors as well as the USHMM and other Holocaust educational institutions and museums.
The museum’s new facility, located at 715 N. Oregon, in El Paso’s museum corridor, will open in October 2007. It will include 4,000 square feet of permanent exhibit space and an additional 1,000 square feet of traveling exhibit space. The new location will also include a library and study center, and a conference room all available for use by the public.
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