In October 2025, the Museum opened a new installation on the history of violent antisemitism before, during, and after the Holocaust, including contemporary events. Given the global surge in violent antisemitic incidents, educating the public has never been more urgent.
Most of our visitors are not Jewish and don’t know what antisemitism is and that it made the Holocaust possible. Now all visitors entering the Museum, from school groups to tourists on the National Mall, will have access to this crucial knowledge. By visiting the installation, which is on the Museum’s main floor, they will learn that deadly conspiracy theories to promote hatred of Jews started long before the Nazis and continue to be a threat today. Our message: Antisemitism targets Jewish people, but affects all of us.
Visitors watch the main feature of the installation, a video in which Holocaust survivors explain the history of antisemitism before, during, and after the Holocaust, including contemporary events.
October 7, 2023—the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust—is prominently featured in the video.
One part of the installation is a wall with stories of individuals killed solely for being Jewish. It includes a Holocaust survivor murdered in Paris; one of the victims of the Tree of Life massacre—the largest antisemitic attack in US history; a mother and her two young sons, victims of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel; and a young couple, Israeli Embassy staff members, killed at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington.
Photos: Leigh Vogel for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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