The Holocaust

Daily 10 a.m. – 5:20 p.m.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Exhibition passes required March through August. Passes are not required for entry September through February.

The Museum’s Permanent Exhibition The Holocaust spans three floors of the Museum building. It presents a narrative history using more than 900 artifacts, 70 video monitors, and four theaters that include historic film footage and eyewitness testimonies. The exhibition is divided into three parts: “Nazi Assault,” “Final Solution,” and “Last Chapter.” The narrative begins with images of death and destruction as witnessed by American soldiers during the liberation of Nazi concentration camps in 1945. Most first-time visitors spend an average of two to three hours in this self-guided exhibition. Recommended for visitors 11 years of age and older.

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Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story

Daily 10 a.m. – 5:20 p.m.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
First Floor

No passes required

Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story, an exhibition for children, opened at the Museum in 1993. It presents the history of the Holocaust in ways that children can understand. It is the main program for elementary and middle school children at the Museum. Millions of young visitors, their parents, and teachers continue to visit the exhibition and recommend it to others. Professionals in all fields of child development assisted in and reviewed the making of Daniel’s Story. Museum and classroom educators and interpreters participated in the creation of the exhibition. Three eminent child psychiatrists reviewed every detail.

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A Dangerous Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Daily 10 a.m. – 5:20 p.m.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Gonda Education Center, Lower Level

No passes required

A Dangerous Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion explores the continuing impact of the most widely distributed antisemitic publication of modern times. Despite countless exposures of the Protocols as a fraud, the myth of a Jewish world conspiracy has retained incredible power for Nazis and others who seek to spread hatred of Jews. Today, technology has made the Protocols available to anyone with Internet access, and it continues to be circulated by those who promote hatred, violence, and even genocide.

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State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda

Opens Friday, January 30, 2009

Daily 10 a.m. – 5:20 p.m.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Kimmel-Rowan Gallery

No passes are needed

State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda reveals how the Nazi Party used modern techniques as well as new technologies and carefully crafted messages to sway millions with its vision for a new Germany. This groundbreaking exhibition presents rare posters, photographs, artifacts, and film documenting the pivotal role of propaganda in the Nazi effort to achieve and consolidate power and drive the world into a war that cost some 55 million lives, including six million Jews, in the Holocaust. The legacy of this era continues today, influencing debates about hate speech and the dangers of propaganda in democratic societies, as well as efforts to prevent and punish the crime of genocide.

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Wexner Center

Daily 10 a.m. – 5:20 p.m.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Second Floor

No passes required

From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide »
Innovative technology and compelling eyewitness testimony introduces visitors to genocide today and asks them to respond to the question: What will you do to meet the challenge of genocide?

The Nuremberg Trials: What is Justice?
How do you prosecute unprecedented crimes? Trace the legacy of the International Military Tribunal in an interactive display of film, photos, and oral history.

Genocide Emergency – Darfur, Sudan: Who Will Survive Today?
A display of photographs and extensive resource materials documenting the 2003-2005 genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Meed Survivors Registry
User-friendly touch screen monitors provide access to the Museum’s database of nearly 200,000 survivors and their families from 49 states and 59 countries.

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