United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Washington, D.C.[
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The Holocaust Museum has one of the most comprehensive collections of Holocaust-related materials in the world. Visit their permanent collection or come to one of the many special events that take place.
Waymark Code: WM4HV2
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 08/27/2008
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The Holocaust Museum had one of the most comprehensive collections of Holocaust-related materials in the world. Visit their permanent collection or come to one of the many special events that take place.
The museum lists these subject areas on its Website:
- Jewish life in Europe before the Holocaust
- The rise to power of the Nazi movement in Germany and Austria
- The flight of European refugees from Nazi Germany and refugee communities around the world
- Nazi racial science and the propaganda campaign against Jews, Roma and Sinti (Gypsies), and the mentally and physically handicapped
- Nazi anti-Jewish policy in the 1930s, from the boycott through Kristallnacht
- Nazi persecution of Roma and Sinti (Gypsies), homosexuals,
- Jehovah’s Witnesses, political dissidents, Poles, and Soviet prisoners of war
- The invasion and occupation of eastern and western Europe
- The roundup, deportation, and resettlement of European Jewry
- The mass shootings conducted by mobile killing squads
- Ghettos, concentration camps, and killing centers
- Nazi collaborators and satellite states
- Resistance, rescue, and life in hiding during the Holocaust
- The liberation of Europe and the disclosure of Nazi concentration camps
- The war crimes trials
- The displaced persons camps
- Legal and illegal immigration to Palestine
- Postwar immigration to the Americas
- Holocaust assets and restitution
- Holocaust memorials and commemoration
It lists the following holdings:
- Art: period drawings, prints, sculpture, posters, and other creative works
- Books and pamphlets
- Broadsides, advertisements, and maps
- Film and video historical footage, audio and video oral testimonies; music and sound recordings
- Furnishings, architectural fragments, models, machinery, and tools
- Microfilm and microfiche of government documents and other official records
- Personal effects, ritual objects, jewelry, musical instruments, and numismatics (currency)
- Personal papers: documents, correspondence, memoirs, and scrapbooks
- Photographs and photo albums
- Textiles: uniforms, costumes, clothing, badges, armbands, flags, and banners
FREE TIMED PASSES are necessary for visiting the Permanent Exhibition — The Holocaust — and can be obtained at the Museum on the day of your visit or in advance by calling tickets.com at (800) 400–9373. Each day, the Museum distributes on a first–come first–served basis a large but limited number of timed entry passes for use that same day.
Physical Address: 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW D.C., WA, D.C. USA 00000
Date Dedicated: 01/01/1993
Supporting Website: [Web Link]
Fee/Donation: Free with scheduled pass
Memorial Type: Museum
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Visit Instructions: A picture of you is required at the site. A full description of your thoughts and experience on the site.
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