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Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story

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The exhibition Daniel's Story is no longer available for traveling. It can be seen on site at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

Experience the Holocaust through the eyes of a child in this engrossing exhibition, designed for children eight and older. Daniel's Story, based on the actual experiences of children during the Holocaust, vividly tells the story of a German Jewish boy’s life between 1933 and 1945. Overhead narration, diary pages, and walk-through environments help visitors to see through Daniel’s eyes the increasingly restrictive laws and random violence against Jews, his family’s forced move from their comfortable home to the Lodz ghetto in Poland, their transport to a concentration camp, and Daniel’s life following liberation.

Daniel is a composite character, and his story is based on the diary accounts of many children who recorded their impressions of life during the Holocaust. Daniel is never pictured, and he is not given a last name. The exhibition was created with the assistance of professionals in all fields of child development and has been honored by museum and educational associations as well as by the critical press. With sensitivity and meticulously recreated historical detail, the exhibition uses "please touch" and interactive elements to introduce young people to the tragedy of the Holocaust.

View photographs of this exhibition from the Photo Archives

Past venues

Remember the Children: Daniel's Story appeared in the following venues:

2005

Binghamton, NY
February 17, 2005 through September 25, 2005
Roberson Museum and Science Center

2002

Milwaukee, WI
April 8, 2002 through October 21, 2002
Milwaukee Public Museum

2000

Kansas City, MO
October 20, 2000 through March 18, 2001
Science City at Union Station

Oklahoma City, OK
February 11, 2000 through August 27, 2000
Kirkpatrick Science Center, Omniplex

1999

Denver, CO
March 12, 1999 through September 6, 1999
Denver Museum of Natural History Museum

1998

Los Angeles, CA
September 24, 1998 through January 24, 1999
California Science Center at Exposition Park

San Francisco, CA
March 1, 1998 through July 26, 1998
Herbst International Exhibition Hall, Presidio
sponsored by the Bay Area Discovery Museum

1993

Seattle, WA
October 12, 1993 through January 30, 1994
Children's Museum

San Diego, CA
June 15, 1993 through September 19, 1993
Children's Museum & Museum of San Diego History

Indianapolis, IN
February 8, 1993 through May 9, 1993
The Children's Museum

1992

New Orleans, LA
October 12, 1992 through January 10, 1993
Children's Museum of Louisiana

Albany, NY
June 5, 1992 through September 15, 1992
New York State Museum

1991

New York, NY
November 15, 1991 through May 10, 1992
Museum of the City of New York

Los Angeles, CA
June 15, 1991 through September 22, 1991
Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County

1990

Chicago, IL
January 26, 1990 through May 28, 1990
The Field Museum

1988

Washington DC
April 12, 1988 through July 31, 1988
Capital Children's Museum

 

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