The Holocaust

Daily 10 a.m.–5:20 p.m.

Extended hours:
March 25–June 7, Monday through Friday,
10 a.m.–6:30 p.m.

Exhibition passes required March through August. Passes are not required for entry September through February.

The Museum’s Permanent Exhibition The Holocaust spans three floors of the Museum building. It presents a narrative history using more than 900 artifacts, 70 video monitors, and four theaters that include historic film footage and eyewitness testimonies. The exhibition is divided into three parts: “Nazi Assault,” “Final Solution,” and “Last Chapter.” The narrative begins with images of death and destruction as witnessed by American soldiers during the liberation of Nazi concentration camps in 1945. Most first-time visitors spend an average of two to three hours in this self-guided exhibition. Recommended for visitors 11 years of age and older.

Assistive listening in the Permanent Exhibition is compatible with T-coil equipped hearing aids. Receivers with headsets for other visitors who require assistive listening may be checked out at the coat check.

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Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story

Daily 10 a.m. – 5:20 p.m.

Extended hours:
March 25–June 7, Monday through Friday,
10 a.m.–6:30 p.m.

First Floor

No passes required

Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story, an exhibition for children, opened at the Museum in 1993. It presents the history of the Holocaust in ways that children can understand. It is the main program for elementary and middle school children at the Museum. Millions of young visitors, their parents, and teachers continue to visit the exhibition and recommend it to others. Professionals in all fields of child development assisted in and reviewed the making of Daniel’s Story. Museum and classroom educators and interpreters participated in the creation of the exhibition. Three eminent child psychiatrists reviewed every detail.

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Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration & Complicity In The Holocaust

Daily 10 a.m.–5:20 p.m.

Extended hours:
April 30–June 7, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.–6:30 p.m.

Lower Level

No passes required

This special exhibition explores how countless ordinary people within the Reich and across Europe, from all walks of life, were essential to the execution of Nazi racial policies. It examines the spectrum of motives and pressures that influenced their choices to tolerate the persecution and murder of Jews and other groups. It also looks at individuals who did not succumb to the opportunities and temptations to betray their fellow human beings, reminding us that there is an alternative to complicity in evil acts—even in extraordinary times.

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A Dangerous Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Daily 10 a.m. – 5:20 p.m.

Extended hours:
March 25–June 7, Monday through Friday,
10 a.m.–6:30 p.m.

Gonda Education Center, Lower Level

No passes required

A Dangerous Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion explores the continuing impact of the most widely distributed antisemitic publication of modern times. Despite countless exposures of the Protocols as a fraud, the myth of a Jewish world conspiracy has retained incredible power for Nazis and others who seek to spread hatred of Jews. Today, technology has made the Protocols available to anyone with Internet access, and it continues to be circulated by those who promote hatred, violence, and even genocide.

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Wexner Center

Daily 10 a.m. – 5:20 p.m.

Extended hours:
March 25–June 7, Monday through Friday,
10 a.m.–6:30 p.m.

Second Floor

No passes required

From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide »
Innovative technology and compelling eyewitness testimony introduces visitors to genocide today and asks them to respond to the question: What will you do to meet the challenge of genocide?

The Nuremberg Trials: What is Justice?
How do you prosecute unprecedented crimes? Trace the legacy of the International Military Tribunal in an interactive display of film, photos, and oral history.

Genocide Emergency – Darfur, Sudan: Who Will Survive Today?
A display of photographs and extensive resource materials documenting the 2003-2005 genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Meed Survivors Registry
User-friendly touch screen monitors provide access to the Museum’s database of nearly 200,000 survivors and their families from 49 states and 59 countries.

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