Holocaust Museum

Thessaloniki breaks ground on new Holocaust museum

The new museum will span 9,000 feet and eight floors, and will tell the story of over 2,300 years of Greek Jewish history.

Oklahoma Jewish museum holds funeral for Holocaust victims

A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years.

In shoadow of Amsterdam pogrom

Portuguese Holocaust Museum, British Embassy mark Kristallnacht

British Embassy in Portugal sponsors Kristallnacht commemoration at the Holocaust Museum in Oporto, Portugal. President of Porto Jewish Community: “Kristallnacht is not part of history but happening today. The way to fight antisemitism is to educate the youth.”

Seven museums:

Anti-Israel graffiti 'straightforwardly antisemitic'

Seven Holocaust museums condemn vandalism against one of their own after police say it wasn’t a hate crime.

Vandals deface Paris Holocaust museum with blood-red hands

Wall of the Righteous memorial to French citizens who saved Jews defaced with dozens of red hands in act Israeli Ambassador harkens to lynching of 2 Israelis at start of Second Intifada.

Amsterdam

Inauguration of Holocaust museum met with protests

Demonstrators ignited fireworks and threw eggs at police and confronted pro-Israel counter-protesters as Israeli President addressed the event.

Amid calls for his arrest

Herzog inaugurates Holocaust museum in Amsterdam

President of Israel and King of the Netherlands, inaugurated a new Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam. Anti-Zionist organization: 'We filed a request with the police and the ICJ to arrest Herzog for genocide.'

'They're giving a prize to the violent side'

Israeli speaker whose Berkeley event was canceled amid violence draws protest at LA Holocaust Museum speech.

Toronto’s first Holocaust museum looks to the post-survivor era

Until last week, Toronto did not have a dedicated Holocaust museum.

Virginia:

Reformed neo-Nazi endorsed by Holocaust Museum banned by school

Talk by motivational speaker who warns kids of dangers of white supremacist movement canceled by school after pressure from parents.

UK PM to back legislation for national Holocaust memorial

National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre will be built next to parliament as a place to reflect on the murder of 6 million Jews.

The Schlesinger Diaries - new and troubling revelations

The diaries are a gift that keeps on giving for historians on many topics. This is the account of a troubling one about lies and truth.Op-ed

Adelaide, Australia:

Nazis posing in front of Holocaust Museum leads to investigation

Inquiry by South Australian parliament looking into banning public display of Nazi symbols.

New exhibit uses personal objects to tell story of the Holocaust

NYC’s Holocaust museum uses personal objects to tell the story of lives lived and lost.

Orlando’s Holocaust museum is getting a huge expansion

Florida's new Holocaust museum is the latest to feature the entire digital collection of survivor testimony.

'Powerful' Holocaust museum to open in Boston

Museum will serve as educational center to "make a mark on humanity to make the world a better place."

Montreal:

Holocaust museum to relocate to new, larger site within 3 years

Montreal’s Holocaust Museum relocating to new $80 million site in historic Jewish quarter by 2025.

Montreal Holocaust Museum announces $80 million project

Museum will relocate to new $80 million facility in 2025 that will feature modern, cutting edge museum innovation and technology.

Japanese museum focuses on diplomat who saved Jews during WWII

Museum's new exhibit showcases the stories of Jews rescued by Chiune Sugihara during the Holocaust who landed in Japanese port city.

Latvian Holocaust museum in danger of bankruptcy

A Holocaust museum in Latvia has announced that it no longer has enough visitors to keep operating.

This Polish ice cream maker declared himself a Jewish museum

A Polish ice cream shop owner runs a local Jewish museum. Should he get a prize — or a penalty?

Will Budapest's new Holocaust museum finally open in 2024?

Budapest’s new $30m Holocaust museum sits in limbo as Hungary debates its contents.

Trump-endorsed Ohio Jewish candidate looking for upset GOP win

Max Miller, who served as a trustee of the US Holocaust Museum, pulled in $550,000 in the 2nd quarter in upstart bid to win GOP seat.

Florida Holocaust Museum graffiti a hate crime, say police

State's Holocaust museum defaced with anti-Semitic slur and swastikas between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

Dubai museum debuts Holocaust exhibit

As anti-Semitism rises globally, Dubai museum debuts Holocaust exhibit to educate and inform.

Museum to display photos by Jewish prisoner who risked life

Jewish prisoner’s photos depicting horrid life in Lodz Ghetto donated to Boston museum.

The tragedy of the assimilated American Jew with nowhere to go

Wise Jews understand that we cannot blindly trust the right or left, Christians or Muslims or Jews in positions of secular prominence. Op-ed

Confederate flag tied to front door of NYC Holocaust museum

'This is an atrocious attack on our community,' says president of Jewish heritage museum in New York City.

Stop whitewashing FDR's abandonment of the Jews

Documents show that State Dep't officials briefed the president on their efforts to keep refugees out. FDR simply did not want Jews.Op-ed.

Former NY State Assemblyman: 'It's an insult to the 6 million'

Dov Hikind speaks with Newsmax about the Florida Holocaust museum's decision to exhibit a George Floyd memorial.

How a Holocaust Museum scholar denounces Zionism

Museum scholar denounces Israel as a wrongdoer and occupier in an article published days after graffiti were found on synagogues. Opinion.

Amsterdam pledges millions to help Holocaust museum

Amsterdam to contribute $5.6 million for Holocaust museum makeover.

Holocaust museum debuts Holocaust holograms in Spanish

Buenos Aires Holocaust museum reopens, becomes first to present new technology in Spanish.

Defining the Holocaust for future generations: Not just Genocide

Sweden: Bag with soap and Star of David left outside museum

Bag with Star of David and soap left outside Swedish Holocaust day display.

The open wounds of the Holocaust - where are my mother's children?

Holocaust museums should start worrying about today's antisemitism

Buenos Aires rededicates Holocaust Museum

Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires rededicated following $4.5 million overhaul.

Museum to display shofar from Auschwitz

NYC's Museum of Jewish Heritage reveals never-seen shofar from Auschwitz as part of exhibition.

Dutch Holocaust museum drops anti-Semitic claim

Dutch Holocaust museum drops, but does not retract, claims that Jews threatened to kill its former director.

Church modeled after Solomon's Temple to house Holocaust museum

Sao Paulo church built to look like Solomon's Temple to house Brazil's second Holocaust museum.

Hungary’s Holocaust museum to address complicity

Hungary’s Holocaust museum will address complicity, avoid trivializing questions of morality, Jewish managers say.

Multi-million-dollar Holocaust museum opens in Macedonia

Restitution money allows new Holocaust museum to open in country which lost 98% of its Jews to the Nazis.

‘Fake News’ sign planted towards San Antonio Holocaust museum

Sign reading 'Fake News' pointed towards Holocaust museum in San Antonio, Texas.

Exclusive: Memories from a lifelong friendship with Elie Wiesel

Post-election musings: Whither America? Whither US Jews?

Hungary transfers Holocaust museum to Jewish community

Ownership of new Holocaust museum in Budapest transferred to Chabad-affiliated Jewish federation following years-long dispute.

Hungary's Holocaust museum to open in 2019 - after 4-year delay

Chabad Hungary joins Holocaust museum project boycotted by other Jewish groups.

Sweden to build Holocaust museum in Malmo

City hit by string of anti-Semitic incidents likely venue for planned Holocaust museum.

Study: US Holocaust Museum's new exhibit distorts FDR's record

Study finds museum distorts, minimizes President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s abandonment of Jewish refugees during Holocaust.

New Polish Holocaust museum to be associated with anti-Semite?

New museum in Poland plans to exhibit over 40,000 accounts of Poles who saved Jews during Holocaust.

A visit to the Holocaust Museum

Man fires red paint balls at Israeli flag flying in Philadelphia

Israeli flag at Holocaust museum under construction defaced.

New exhibit asks: 'What did Americans know about the Holocaust?'

'Visitors will be surprised at how much Americans knew about Nazism and the Holocaust - and how early they knew it.'

Man who threatened French Holocaust museum in psych ward

Man who threatened employee of Holocaust museum with unloaded rifle committed to psychiatric institution.

Former Polish politician sues Polish Jewish museum

Former Polish politician sues Jewish museum over use of tweet deemed anti-Semitic.

A look into the Holocaust Museum at the Menorah Center

'My family was murdered in the Holocaust and the establishment of the museum is a kind of closure for me.'

Hungarian Holocaust museum still hasn't opened

Hungary’s controversial $22 million Holocaust museum enters 3rd year of disuse.

Ivanka Trump takes private tour of Holocaust Museum

President Trump's daughter Ivanka tours Holocaust Museum with her Orthodox Jewish in-laws amidst wave of anti-Semitic incidents across US.

Dutch government allocates $8.5 million to Holocaust museum

Dutch government allocates more than $8.5 million to establishment of a Holocaust museum in Amsterdam.