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The Holocaust, the Museum’s three-floor main exhibition, presents a comprehensive history of the period through artifacts, photographs, films, and eyewitness testimonies. Divided into three sections and presented chronologically, it begins with life before the Holocaust in the early 1930s, continues through the Nazi rise to power and subsequent tyranny and genocide, and concludes with the post-1945 aftermath of the Holocaust. It is suitable for ages 11 and older. Passes are required but are free.
State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda This exhibition reveals how the Nazi Party used modern techniques as well as new technologies and carefully crafted messages to sway millions with its vision for a new Germany. This groundbreaking exhibition presents rare posters, photographs, artifacts, and film documenting the pivotal role of propaganda in the Nazi effort to achieve and consolidate power and drive the world into a war that cost some 55 million lives, including six million Jews, in the Holocaust. The legacy of this era continues today, influencing debates about hate speech and the dangers of propaganda in democratic societies, as well as efforts to prevent and punish the crime of genocide.
Remember The Children, Daniel’s Story This exhibition is a history of the Holocaust for families and young people, ages eight and older, told from a youngster’s point of view. The exhibition is based on experiences of children who survived the Holocaust and who recorded what happened to them between 1933 and 1945. The exhibition has many interactive components that engage children in the learning process. As they walk through the exhibition, the young visitors witness the increasing restraints of Nazi policies on one family’s life, from smaller food rations to deportation to a ghetto and finally up to, but never through, the gates of a concentration camp. At the end of the exhibition visitors are invited to express their feelings about the exhibition by writing a letter to Daniel. As a memorial to the approximately one-and-one-half million children who died in the Holocaust, Remember The Children, Daniel’s Story is an unforgettable experience for all audiences.
A Dangerous Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion This exhibition outlines the history of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the most widely circulated antisemetic work of modern times. Written in 1903, the fictitious document outlines the alleged Jewish plot for world domination and was a major source of “evidence” against the Jews in the rise of Nazi Germany. Fully discredited multiple times, The Protocols is nevertheless used to this day to incite violence and hatred around the world, though the conspiracy and the elders themselves are entirely fabricated. With new technologies, access to The Protocols is now available to anyone with internet access, making it more widely distributed than ever before.
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.
On the Museum’s second floor, the hexagonal Hall of Remembrance is a place for both individual contemplation and formal ceremonies. It serves as the national memorial to all Holocaust victims.
Within the Gonda Center, the Wall of Remembrance (Children’s Tile Wall) serves as a memorial to the approximately 1.5 million children killed in the Holocaust. It includes more than 3,000 tiles hand painted by American school children.
The Holocaust Memorial Museum extends its “walls” through special traveling exhibitions that circulate to other sites, accompanied by programming and educational materials. The Museum circulates six traveling exhibitions throughout the United States.
• NAZI OLYMPICS Berlin 1936
• Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 - 1945
• Varian Fry, ASSIGNMENT: RESCUE, 1940 - 1941
• Schindler
• Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings
• Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
