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National Monument Camp Amersfoort. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Netherlands inaugurates museum on site of former Nazi concentration camp

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A museum built on the site of a former Nazi concentration camp in the Netherlands was inaugurated on Monday, also the 76th anniversary of the day the camp was handed over to the Red Cross and...

Holocaust museum to be inaugurated in Oporto, Portugal

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Oporto, the second-largest city in Portugal after Lisbon, plans to inaugurate a new Holocaust museum. It will be the city’s first museum of this kind. Oporto Jewish community president Dias Ben-Zion and the mayor of...
A railroad boxcar or cattle car used by the Nazis to transport Jews during the Holocaust is on view at the Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum. Credit: Shamir Association.

New land-lease agreement prevents closure of Riga’s Holocaust museum

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The City Property Committee of the Riga City Council met on Tuesday to review the terms of a new land-lease agreement with the Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum. After several hours, the committee...
The Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum. Credit: Shamir Association.

Riga land-lease agreement change could cause closing of local Holocaust museum

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The Riga city council has informed the local Holocaust museum that according to the new land-lease agreement, it will have to dismantle the central part of its exposition and start paying a full market...
Falsified Israeli passport, part of “Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann,” January to June 2020. Credit: The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, Mich.

Michigan’s Holocaust museum exhibit reveals secret history behind capture of Adolf Eichmann

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The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, Mich., has announced its newest special exhibit, “Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann,” which runs Jan. 26 through mid-June. It reveals the secret...
Erev Passover at the Sciesopoli House in Selvino, Italy. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

After seven-year campaign, Selvino Children’s Museum finally opens its doors

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Following a seven-year campaign, a museum dedicated to the story of some 800 child Holocaust survivors who were cared for in an Alpine resort town in Italy after World War II finally opened its...
Holocaust memorial in Bucharest, Romania. Credit: Flickr.

Romania set to open first Holocaust museum since end of Second World War

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Romania will open its first national Holocaust museum more than seven decades since the end of World War II. The National Museum of Jewish History and the Holocaust in Romania will be in an 86,000-square-foot,...
Jewish Cultural Quarter, Amsterdam. Credit: Holland Tourism Ministry.

Exhibition at Dutch National Holocaust museum leaves out Auschwitz pictures

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Holland’s national Holocaust museum excluded four pictures taken at Auschwitz from a current exhibition. The Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam, which consists of the National Holocaust Museum, dismissed criticism that the pictures were censored, saying they...
The Archives of Morocco in Rabat. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

US Holocaust museum signs cooperation agreement with Morocco archives

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., signed a cooperation agreement with the Archives of Morocco in Rabat on May 7 to share materials on the Jews of North Africa during the...

Holocaust museum pulls study absolving Obama administration for inaction in face of Syrian genocide

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A major United States Holocaust Memorial Museum study of the Obama Administration’s Syria policy was put on hold last night after portions of the study given to Tablet were greeted with shock and harsh criticism by...