Cindy Crawford and Ella Mandel receive Award of Courage at Holocaust Museum

(Beverly Hills, CA) Holocaust Museum LA honored Cindy Crawford and Holocaust survivor Ella Mandel with the “Award of Courage” at its annual gala on Oct. 28, 2025.

Crawford and Mandel collaborated on the “Borrowed Spotlight” campaign to raise awareness about antisemitism and Holocaust history.

“I want to be a voice for light, love and acceptance — for seeing the humanity in one another,” Crawford said in accepting the award. “This museum, and survivors like Ella, remind us where hatred leads when we stop seeing each other as part of the same human story.”

Jonah Platt received the first Roz and Abner Goldstine Advocacy Award for his podcast “Being Jewish with Jonah Platt,” highlighting the importance of Holocaust remembrance.

Marissa Lepor, granddaughter of survivors and president of 3G@HMLA, earned the Jona Goldrich Visionary Award, stressing the responsibility of descendants and society to preserve survivors’ stories.

Mandel, who lost her mother, father and two sisters in the Holocaust, said, “‘Never again’ is not just my promise — it must be yours, too. Together, we can make sure that the world remembers, and that the future is safer than the past.”

The gala raised $1.3 million to fund museum education programs. The museum’s expanded campus, opening June 2026, will double its size and increase visitor capacity to 500,000 annually, featuring advanced technology to preserve survivor testimonies.

Source Holocaust Museum LA