print this page  ON EXHIBIT Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race Through October 16 Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story For younger visitors Witness to History - Documenting the Path of American Liberators Wexner Learning Center Special Tribute Display Online Exhibitions THE MUSEUM NEAR YOU Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust Through July 31 Spertus Museum Chicago, IL Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945 April 11 - June 3 Broward County Library, with the Stonewall Library and Archives Ft. Lauderdale, FL Fighting the Fires of Hate – America and the Nazi Book Burnings Through April 9 The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Cincinnati, OH April 21 - June 15 Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library Oklahoma City, OK Schindler Through May 13 Muskegon County Museum Muskegon, MI Remember the Children: Daniel's Story Through September 25 Roberson Museum and Science Center Binghamton, NY Varian Fry, Assignment Rescue: 1940 – 1941 Through April 3 Ralph Foster Museum (College of the Ozarks) Point Lookout, MO Through April 16 Mission Mill Museum Salem, OR April 17 – May 12 Muskegon Museum of Art Muskegon, MI April 17 – June 5 The Sherwin Miller Museum Tulsa, OK Full Traveling Exhibitions Calendar l       i       n       k       s INSIDE THE MUSEUM Become a Member Volunteer Opportunities Group Visits Accessibility Museum Café Full Public Programs EVENT Calendar EVENT Calendar EVENT Calendar April 2005 Take a moment to reflect during your visit to the Museum. Learn how the Museum's architecture reflects the history it holds at What Makes This Building Talk?, listen to experts reflect on the special exhibition Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race and its relevance to our own time at our Insights Series, and hear the reflections of eyewitnesses at First Person, through video testimony in our exhibitions, or at Time Capsule in a Milk Can: Emanuel Ringelbum and the Secret Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto. AT THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM Special Focus on Liberation 2005 marks the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II. Please join us for special commemorative programming. Wexner Learning Center See the Museum’s special tribute display, Witness to History—Documenting the Path of American Liberators. Learn more about the trek of American troops across “Fortress Europe” and their encounter with the concentration camps through the camera lenses of U.S. Army Signal Corps photographers. Explore animated maps, wartime accounts, and historical photographs on interactive multimedia stations. Hear the voices of survivors and soldiers in eyewitness video testimony about liberation of the concentration camps Visit the Wexner Learning Center’s screening room to see documentary films about liberation and the end of World War II. First Person Helena Rubinstein Auditorium 1 p.m. Thursday, April 14 Thursday, April 21 LEARN MORE Time Capsule in a Milk Can: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Secret Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto Sundays, April 3 & 17, 2005 2:00 p.m. Helena Rubinstein Auditorium In 1939, Jewish historian Emanuel Ringelblum, his young son, and wife were forced to live in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland with thousands of other Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazis. He realized that the actions of the Nazis and the Jews they were trying to destroy needed to be recorded so future generations would never forget. This is the story of Ringelblum and a group of men, women, and children who began a clandestine archive, gathering evidence of what was happening around them. Join actor Marc Spiegel as he portrays Emanuel Ringelbum in this interactive theater performance. This program has been made possible by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation. This program is free and open to the public. Reservations are not required. READ MORE First Person: Conversations with Survivors of the Holocaust Wednesdays at 1 p.m. Through August 31 Helena Rubinstein Auditorium The Museum invites you to participate in a conversation with a Holocaust survivor. The First Person series features eyewitness accounts that unite personal experience with history in a way that is extraordinary in its immediacy and power. The 2005 season of First Person has been made possible by generous support from the Louis and Dora Smith Foundation. READ MORE Insights Series Tuesday, April 12, 2005 7:00 p.m. Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Theater Join leading physicians, scientists, bioethicists, and social commentators in this new series reflecting on the Museum's latest exhibition and its relevance to our own time. Acts committed in the name of "progress" by members of the medical and scientific communities during the Nazi era violated basic ethical principles. Yet, those who committed horrific crimes were able to persuade themselves that their actions were right, even righteous. Dr. Arthur Caplan, Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, explores how moral inquiry into this history can inform the field of bioethics today as it confronts controversial issues and practices. Admission is free, but seating is limited. For reservations call 202-488-0407. Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race will be open before and following the program. Doors open at 6 p.m. READ MORE Guided Tours – Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race Tuesdays and Saturdays Sidney Kimmel and Rena Rowan Exhibition Gallery This thirty-minute guided tour explores the Nazis' quest to create a "master race" and to rid Germany of those who did not fit their racial ideal. Among the 200 artifacts on display are calipers used to measure racial characteristics, placards denouncing mixed marriage, posters advocating the sterilization of the "unfit" and photographs documenting the history of eugenics in the United States. This program is free and open to the public. Reservations are not required. CHECK FOR DATES AND TIMES What Makes this Building Talk? Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 10:30 and 11:15 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday at 2:30 and 3:15 p.m. Hall of Witness In the words of architect James Ingo Freed, the Museum's architecture is intended to be a "resonator of memory." Join Museum educators as they demonstrate how aspects of the building's structure reflect the history housed within its walls. This program is free and open to the public. Reservations are not required. CHECK FOR DATES AND TIMES If you would like to be removed from this list, please click here.