United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Washington, D.C.[ - The Holocaust on Waymarking.com

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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