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State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda
This exhibition encourages us to think about what propaganda is, how it works, and how to respond to its intended use: to divide people and promote violence.
Themes: Germany, Propaganda -
Some Were Neighbors: Choice, Human Behavior, and the Holocaust
Ordinary people played a key role in helping Hitler and the Nazis carry out their crimes. What led so many individuals to abandon their fellow human beings? Why did others make the choice to help?
Themes: Collaboration, Complicity, Rescue -
Burma’s Path to Genocide
This exhibition explores how the Rohingya, a religious and ethnic minority in Burma, became targets of a sustained campaign of genocide.
Themes: Warning Signs, Genocide -
Americans and the Holocaust
This exhibition examines the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war, and genocide.
Themes: American Responses, World War II -
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse” German society of people viewed as biological threats to the nation’s “health.” Enlisting the help of the medical community, the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jewry.
Themes: Persecution -
Anne Frank the Writer: An Unfinished Story
In addition to her diary, Anne Frank filled five notebooks and more than 300 loose pages during her two years in hiding. Explore these original writings, view her photo album from before the war, and see the “Secret Annex” in which she and her family lived.
Themes: Children, Diaries, Documentation and Evidence, Hiding -
Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933–1945
Believing homosexuals to be carriers of a “degeneracy” that weakened society and hindered population growth, the Nazi regime arrested and incarcerated in prisons and concentration camps tens of thousands of German men—leaving many dead and shattering the lives of many more.
Themes: Germany, Persecution -
Voyage of the St. Louis
In 1939, the Cuban government turned away the St. Louis, a transatlantic liner carrying 937 Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. Refused safe haven in the United States as well, the ship returned to Europe. Follow the arduous voyage of the St. Louis and the Museum’s ten-year project to uncover the fates of the passengers.
Themes: Documentation and Evidence, Refugees, World Responses -
Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936
For two weeks in August 1936, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi dictatorship camouflaged its racist, militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics.
Themes: Germany, Propaganda
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Permanent Exhibition: The Holocaust
This narrative history of the Holocaust features historical artifacts, video footage, and personal stories.