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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

 

The mission of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is to stimulate leaders and citizens to confront hatred, prevent genocide, promote human dignity, and strengthen democracy. It is dedicated to documenting, studying, and interpreting the history of the Holocaust. It also serves as the United States ’ official memorial to the millions of European Jews and others killed during the Holocaust under directives of Nazi Germany. The permanent Exhibition at the museum is a chronological history of the Holocaust. It begins in 1933 with Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, and ends with the liberation of the camps, and the opening of Israel. The “Tower of Faces” exhibition in the museum forms a three-story tower lined with photographs of the everyday lives of residents of a village of 3500, mostly Jewish, before the Holocaust began and before they were killed. Since its opening over 25 million have visited the Museum and are given the challenge of cultivating a sense of moral responsibility to respond to the fragility of freedom.

100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, District of Columbia 20024

(202) 488-0400

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