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The Museum is Closed

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is closed on Saturday, October 12, 2024, in observance of Yom Kippur.

Between spring 1915 and autumn 1916, the Ottoman Empire arrested, deported, conducted mass killings, and created conditions intended to cause widespread death among the country’s Armenian Christian citizens, most of whom were living in the territory of modern-day Turkey. Between 664,000 and 1.2 million Armenian men, women, and children died in the genocide. Learn more through the Museum's historical resources.