One of the most awesome places in D.C.. I don't believe anyone could go through this place and not be changed in, at least, some small way. The prints on this page are not for the faint of heart. I suggest that anyone that has any problems dealing with any parts of the subject click on your "Back" button now.
Before touring with me, I would state that this link is in no way affiliated with, associated with, or advocated by the United States Holocaust Museum. I went through as a visitor and the impressions herein are my own.
When the museum first opened, a few years ago, flash photography was not permitted. That is normal ruling for any museum I have visited. Now, although it wasn't explained why, NO photography is allowed. I made the negatives for this set on my first visit. Knowing now that I cannot ever replace them makes them priceless in my eyes.
The face of the building
was intentionally designed to give off an air of innocence as if no sinister
things were happening behind these walls. This is the same impression meant
to be given to those who entered the camps.
Upon entering the building, one still has the same feeling of being in an industrial setting. The inmates were told right along that they were being relocated to work camps in order to better help the Nazi cause. In the beginning, work camps are what they were.
November 9 -10, 1938. Known as the "night of broken glass" or Kristallnacht. Nazis looted and burned Jewish owned businesses and Synagogues throughout Germany and Austria. Around 30,000 Jewish men were deported to the concentration camps within the next few days.
This is a wagon owned by a Czech Gypsy family. During the entire Nazi rule, personal belongings of every sort were stripped from the persecuted owner to be used in the Nazi effort.