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
