To Life Annual Benefit 2025

Our largest donor event each year.
Please plan on joining us!

FEBRUARY 1, 2025
The Vinoy Resort
Sponsorship and ticket information coming soon!

As one of Tampa Bay’s premier events, over 600 prominent community members and business leaders come together to support the Museum’s  mission. To Life has always been The Florida Holocaust Museum’s largest source of unrestricted operating funds, ensuring the delivery of our educational resources to teachers, students, and learners of all ages.

 

 

Become a 2025 Sponsor

To review the full sponsorship levels and benefits, please download the booklet here.

Our Mission

 

 

 

The Florida Holocaust Museum honors the memory of millions of innocent men, women and children who suffered or died in the Holocaust. The Museum is dedicated to teaching the members of all races and cultures the inherent worth and dignity of human life in order to prevent future genocides.

The Florida Holocaust Museum is a 501(C)(3) tax-exempt organization.

 

 

 

 

Impact of Your Sponsorship

Using the lessons of the Holocaust, The FHM encourages people to make a positive change in today’s world through the promotion of acceptance, inclusion, and diversity. This is accomplished through numerous programs, exhibitions, and events both inside and outside the Museum’s walls. The multifaceted programs, provided at no cost to participants, are offered throughout the Tampa Bay region, state of Florida, and the country.

Core programs

  • Speak Up/Speak Now®
  • Teaching Trunks
  • Genocide and Human Rights Awareness Movement Lecture Series
  • The Anne Frank Humanitarian Award
  • Law Enforcement and Society
  • Dimensions In Testimony(SM) from USC Shoah Foundation, featuring local survivors

Last year, antisemitic incidents reached an all-time high, fed by a rise in Holocaust denial and distortion. The mission of The Florida Holocaust Museum has never been more important and the need for Holocaust education never more critical. With your support, The FHM continues to speak out against hatred.

Together, we can fight antisemitism and other forms of hatred.

To Life 2024: From Generation to Generation Sponsors

To Life 2024 Sponsors
Platinum Sponsor
The Sembler & Kamins Families

Visionary Sponsor
Sandy Loebenberg-Mermelstein & Kent “Scooter” Bontly

Champion Sponsors
Selime & Bert Boksen
Crofton Cares/Amy & Michael Southard
Duke Energy
Judy Genshaft & Steven Greenbaum
Shanna & Bryan Glazer
Rothman Family Foundation
Slide Insurance
Rachael & Don Worthington

Humanitarian Sponsors
AllState
Corcoran Partners
Amy Epstein/Sandy & Jay Epstein
Madeira Group at Morgan Stanley
Kathryn Minette & Stan Biderman
Meg & Gary Moskovitz
Richard Rappaport
Raymond James Financial
The Raymund Foundation
Rays Baseball Foundation
Residences at 400 Central
Jan & Craig Sher
Andrea & Matt Silverman
Stein Family
The Schick, Greenberg, & Madow Families
Phyllis & Paul Tauber
Irene & Steven Weiss

Upstander Sponsors
The Abelson Group/The Sobel Group at Morgan Stanley
Alexandra & Greg Band
BayCare
Margot & Michael Benstock
Carr, Riggs, & Ingram/David Alvarez

Stacy & Will Conroy
Creative Contractors/The Bomstein Family
Dynasty Financial Partners
Jessica & Jonathan Forman
Rhonda Gerson-Hurwitz
Gary Goldring
HCA Healthcare
Donna & Neal Huneycutt
The Igel Family
Jackie & Barry Kanner
Julie & Scott Klavans
Kolter Urban
Dr. Zena Lansky
Blossom Leibowitz
Joan & Bruce Levine
Shari & Todd Mezrah/Deborah White & David Pearlman
Mullen Family Foundation
The Newman Family – Eric, Lyris, Bobby & Merideth
Sabal Trust
Shumaker/Michael Robbins
Bebe & Michael Schulman
Skipper & Ezra Singer
Toni & John Rinde
Robin Warren/Marian Winters
Weather Tite Windows
Doug & Natalie Weiland
Rachel & David Wein
Cindy & Steve Weiss/
Andi & Abe Morris
World Kinect

Ambassador Sponsors
Bank of America
Anita Treiser Bernstein & David Bernstein
Milly & Louis Chaykin
Richard S. Cohen, Marcia’s Light Foundation
Debbie & Nat Doliner and Students from Suncoast Hillel
Sheila & Richard Eatroff
Alix Franzblau & Ron Sherman
Marcia & Alan Gassman In Memory of David Loebenberg

Hennessy Construction Services
Barbara & Leonard McCue
Lois & Peter Pardoll
Debbie Rinde-Hoffman & Fred Hoffman
Deanna & Rob Schwartz
James H. & Amy G. Shimberg Foundation
St. Petersburg Downtown Partnership
Renée & Thomas Walter
Becky & Allan Weiss
Mary & Charlene Wygodski

Activist Sponsors
Mary Jo & David Baras
Tonya & Peter Benstock
Linda Biderman
Eric Lynn for Congress
Empath Health
Fitlife Foods
Andrea Graham & Geoff Simon
Greenwald-Haupt Charitable Foundation
Joni James & Joy Howerton
Dana & Michael Justus
Elisa & Rick Katzeff
Judy & Mark Klein
Jane & Jaime Kratz
Ellen & Dennis Laffer
Leslie & Stephen Levick
Frankie & Ron Linsky
Rebecca & David Nathan
Lynne & Thomas J. Nowel
Red Banyan
Lisa & Eric Reimer
Amanda & Steve Saft
Elizabeth Scarola
Sherry & Joe Schwartz
Ken Sherman
Marilyn & Bruce Smith
Vicki & Joel Sokolik
Debbie & Jeff Supowit
Bev & Arnie Tannenbaum
Lisa & Gary Teblum

To Life 2024: From Generation to Generation Honorees

Congratulations to our To Life 2024 Honorees!

2024 LOEBENBERG HUMANITARIAN AWARD

Chief Anthony Holloway

City of St. Petersburg

Chief Holloway Biography
Anthony Holloway began his law enforcement career with the Clearwater Police Department in 1985. Upon retirement in 2007, he was selected as the Chief of Police for the City or Somerville, Massachusetts. In February 2010, he rejoined the Clearwater Police Department as Chief of Police. In August 2014, he was selected and serves as Chief of Police for the St. Petersburg Police Department.
Chief Holloway earned his B.A. degree (Business Management) and his M.B.A. and graduated from the course of study in Executive Strategic Management, Police Executive Research Forum, and Senior Management Institute for Police. He was awarded a Certificate of Completion for the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Programs from Harvard University and has completed the Executive Leaders Program at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security. He completed the FBl’s National Executive lnstitute.
Chief Holloway has taught law enforcement to national and international governmental, military, educational, and community organizations. He serves as Chair of the Florida Police Chiefs Association Subcommittee on Accountability nd Societal Change and Co-Chair of the law Enforcement Committee on Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association. In May 2018, Chief Holloway was named a Distinguished Fellow at the Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) at Mac Dill Air Force Base. Chief Holloway was named the 2020 Outstanding Chief Executive of the Year by the Florida Police Chiefs Association.

2024 LEGACY AWARD

Rachael Cerrotti

Author

We Share the Same Sky

Rachael Cerrotti Biography
Rachael Cerrotti is an award-winning author, educator, and documentary storyteller. She was the Inaugural Storyteller in Residence for USC Shoah Foundation where she created and hosted The Memory Generation podcast and is now a fellow with The Witness Institute, joining an international cohort of leaders exploring how to build communities of moral reflection. She is also a Us@250 fellow at New America where her storytelling work is being supported as part of the efforts to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary.
In 2019, Rachael released the podcast We Share The Same Sky. It was the first-ever narrative podcast based on a Holocaust survivor’s testimony and tells the story of her journey to retrace her grandmother’s story. We Share The Same Sky was listed as one of the best podcasts of the year by Huff Post, a Reader’s Pick by Vulture Magazine, and as a “Show We Love” by Apple Podcasts. Her critically-acclaimed and award-winning debut memoir, also titled We Share The Same Sky, was released in August 2021. She served as guest curator for The FHM’s original museum exhibition based on this project.
Rachael’s stories have been published and featured by NPR, PRl’s The World, All Things Considered, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and various other publications. Her stories have been used in curriculums developed by and for Discovery Education, USC Shoah Foundation, Echoes & Reflections, Facing History & Ourselves, Jewish Women’s Archive and others. She has worked and consulted with various museums and sits on the board of Aegis Trust and the Holocaust & Human Rights Center of Maine.