Tag: Holocaust Museum
Netherlands inaugurates museum on site of former Nazi concentration camp
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
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...
New land-lease agreement prevents closure of Riga’s Holocaust museum
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...
Riga land-lease agreement change could cause closing of local Holocaust museum
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...
Michigan’s Holocaust museum exhibit reveals secret history behind capture of Adolf Eichmann
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...
After seven-year campaign, Selvino Children’s Museum finally opens its doors
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...
Romania set to open first Holocaust museum since end of Second World War
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,...
Exhibition at Dutch National Holocaust museum leaves out Auschwitz pictures
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...
US Holocaust museum signs cooperation agreement with Morocco archives
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
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...