Exhibitions

A world learns how to move forward.

History’s darkest chapter compelled the world to consider how to safeguard humanity in the future.

Through thought-provoking installations that include the International Military Tribunal and the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Human Rights Wing shows just how the world progressed in the years following the Holocaust.

Human rights wing highlights:

The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg

The Holocaust / Shoah Wing features eye-catching floor maps of Europe during World War II. Visitors can step directly onto the historical geography of the Holocaust and witness the scope of the war’s devastation at the hands of Germany, its allies and collaborators. One stark gray and black map emphasizes the reach of the German armies under Hitler’s command. Another, hints at the vast geographical expanse of the tens of thousands of ghettos, concentration and death camps across Europe.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Visitors can view personal testimonies at video stations throughout the exhibition. They can choose from an array of local Holocaust survivor and liberator testimonies and listen to tales of discrimination and hatred, but also of survival, hope, and rescue, that will leave a lasting impression.

Ten Stages of Genocide

After learning about the Nazi’s “Final Solution” to exterminate the Jews, visitors will come face-to-face with a restored Nazi-era boxcar. This was the first Holocaust museum in the world to house an authentic World War II boxcar. It was acquired by local Holocaust survivors in 1984. Boxcars were crucial to the deportation of Jews from their homes to concentration and death camps. Visitors can walk through the boxcar and see a video that includes testimony of Jews who experienced the horrors of riding in similar railcars.

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home ….. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”
Eleanor roosevelt