NARRATOR Looking towards the museum from the front, at the left you can see the three-story Lester and Sue Smith Campus, so named in appreciation of a $15 million dollar gift, the largest in the museum’s history. As part of a nearly $50 million dollar capital campaign, the donation allowed the museum to more than double the size of the original building and expand the museum’s mission to educate visitors about the Holocaust, remember the 6 million Jews and other innocent victims, and honor the survivors’ legacy. The design of the building itself also furthers that mission. Architect Mark Mucasey: MARK So, when we designed the original facility of the brick on the box was a very light tan brick. Part of our expansion was that that brick box needed to be three stories tall. So, what we did on that box is that we used inlays of the dark, burnt brick, as stripes going through. And if you'll notice the pattern of those stripes, you have the same stripes going through a, a traditional Jewish prayer shawl. But if you look at those stripes, they start the base and they get closer and closer together until they join at the very top in a complete burnt, dark cap. And that represents the transition that that European continent went through, with the Holocaust. MARK It's a sequence where the spacing gets smaller and smaller. So, it's that same concept of squeezing, of running out of time, of running out of room.