![Dr. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky, Space Shuttle Discovery Commander Mark Polansky , and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum chief of ... [LCID: bear2]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/e446f3b5-ba46-4a0f-8d67-be4b8257a62c.jpg)
Dr. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky, Space Shuttle Discovery Commander Mark Polansky, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum chief of staff Bill Parsons. They are holding a replica of "Refugee" bear and a photo of a Darfurian child refugee, items taken by Commander Polansky on a December 2006 Space Shuttle mission.
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