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Delayed Opening

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum will open at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 10, 2026.

Eyewitness to History: Peter Feigl

Peter Feigl was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1929. Fleeing antisemitism, his family ended up in southern France in 1940. He was attending a Quaker summer camp when his parents were arrested and sent to Auschwitz. Peter was hidden by residents in the Protestant village Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and eventually made his way to neutral Switzerland with the help of the Jewish underground.

This conversation has been edited in length for educational and classroom use. View Peter Feigl's complete First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors program.