Places to visit
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Germany
Buchenwald and Mittelbau–Dora Memorials Foundation
Gedenkstätte Buechenwald
99427 Weimar–Buchenwald
Tel: 03643 4300
E-mail: buchenwald@buchenwald.de
Web: www.buchenwald.de/index_en.html
At this former concentration camp and Soviet POW camp near Weimar, the following can be seen: inmates' camp and canteen, SS area, graveyards of the internment camp, gate building, crematorium, disinfection building and depot. There is also a museum.
Dachau
KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau
Alte Römerstrasse 75
D–85221 Dachau
Tel: 08131 669 970
E-mail: info@kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de
Web: www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/englisch/content/
The first major concentration camp established by the Nazis, located near Munich. You can see the Jourhouse (entrance plus SS headquarters), roll-call area, shunt room, prisoner baths, bunker, crematorium and religious memorials.
House of the Wannsee Conference
Am Grossen Wannee 56–58
D-14109 Berlin
Tel: 030 80 50 010
E-mail: info@ghwk.de
Web: www.ghwk.de/engl/kopfengl.htm
On 20 January 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, head of Reich Security (Reichssicherheitshauptamt), chaired a meeting of 14 high-ranking civil servants and SS officers in this Berlin mansion. What came to be called the 'Wannsee Conference' was concerned with the organisation and implementation of the 'Final Solution': the decision to deport European Jews to the East and to exterminate them. In 1947, minutes of the conference, recorded by Adolf Eichmann, were found in the files of the German Foreign Office. The house is now a memorial and has a permanent exhibition: 'The Wannsee Conference and the genocide of the European Jews'.
Jewish Museum Berlin
Lindenstrasse 9–14
10969 Berlin
Tel: 030 259 93 300
E-mail: info@jmberlin.de
Web: www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de/site/EN/homepage.php?meta=TRUE
The permanent historical exhibition, covering more than 3,000 square metres, takes visitors on a journey through 2,000 years of German-Jewish life. There are also temporary exhibitions, contemporary art installations, cabinet displays and various interactive multimedia shows.
Israel
Ghetto Fighters' Museum
http://gfh.org.il/eng/
Located in the western Galilee, on the Coast Highway (Route 4) between Akko and Nahariya. Founded (as the 'Ghetto Fighters' House') in Israel in 1949 by ghetto fighters and partisans, this focuses on anti-Nazi resistance. It also includes the Center for Humanistic Education, which stresses the universal implications of the Holocaust and emphasises the sanctity of human life.
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
POB 3477
Jerusalem 3477
Tel: 972 2 6443749 and 972 2 6443686
E-mail: tourism@yadvashem.org
Web: www.yadvashem.org
The Jewish people's memorial to the murdered six million Jews, it also 'symbolises the ongoing confrontation with the rupture engendered by the Holocaust'. It contains the world's largest repository of information on the Holocaust, and is a leader in Shoah education, commemoration, research and documentation.
Netherlands
Anne Frank Museum
Prinsengracht 267
Amsterdam
Tel: 020 556 7100
Web: www.annefrank.org
The former hiding place of Anne Frank is now a museum that tells the story of the eight Jewish people who, from 1942 to 1944, hid there from the Nazis and Dutch collaborators. Anne Frank's diary is among the original objects on display.
Poland
Auschwitz–Birkenau
Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau
ul. Wiezniow Oswiecimia 20
2-603 Oswiecim
Tel: 033 844 81 02
E-mail: museum@Auschwitz.org.pl
Web: www.auschwitz.org.pl/html/eng/muzeum
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum comprises two main parts. Auschwitz I was where the Nazis carried out the first experiments using Zyklon B gas, murdered the first mass transports of Jews, conducted the first criminal experiments on prisoners and carried out most of the executions by shooting. Auschwitz II-Birkenau was where the Nazis erected most of the machinery of mass extermination with which they murdered approximately one million European Jews. Birkenau was also the largest concentration camp, where more than 100,000 prisoners at a time were imprisoned.
United Kingdom
Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre
Laxton
Newark
Nottinghamshire NG22 0PA
Tel: 01623 836 627
Fax: 01623 836647
E-mail: office@bethshalom.com
Website: www.bethshalom.com
Beth Shalom (House of Peace), a Holocaust memorial and education centre, provides a peaceful setting where visitors can explore and reflect on the Holocaust. Conference, library, seminar and research facilities are available for use by students, teachers and others, and there is a permanent exhibition of the Nazi period. Beth Shalom's Holocausthistory.net website is also well worth a visit.
Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ
Tel: 020 7416 5320
Fax: 020 7416 5374
E-mail: mail@iwm.org.uk
Website: www.iwm.org.uk
The museum's Holocaust exhibition uses historical material to tell the story of the Nazis' persecution of the Jews and other groups before and during World War II.
Jewish Museum
Web: www.jewishmuseum.org.uk
Camden Town site:
Raymond Burton House
129–131 Albert Street
London NW1 7NB
Tel: 020 7284 1997
E-mail: admin@jmus.org.uk
Finchley site:
Sternberg Centre
80 East End Road
London N3 2SY
Tel: 020 8349 1143
E-mail: enquiries@jewishmuseum.org.uk
The Jewish Museum is on two complementary sites. At Camden Town, it has a display of Jewish religious objects, a history gallery and temporary exhibitions relating to aspects of Jewish life. Finchley is home to the museum's social history collections, which focus on Jewish life in the East End. The Holocaust is sensitively addressed through the story of Leon Greenman, a British-born Auschwitz survivor.
Wiener Library
Institute of Contemporary History
4 Devonshire Street
London W1W 5BH
Tel: 020 7636 7247
E-mail: info@wienerlibrary.co.uk
Web: www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
The library collects material related to the Holocaust, its causes and legacies. This includes a comprehensive collection of publications on Germany in the 20th century, with special emphasis on the Third Reich, Europe during and between the two world wars, Jewish communities in Europe, anti-Semitism and Fascism.
United States
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW
Washington DC 20024-2126
Tel: 202 488 0400
Web: www.ushmm.org
This has one of the most comprehensive collections of Holocaust-related materials in the world, including works of art, artefacts, photographs, documents, manuscripts, historical footage, music and sound recordings and oral testimonies. There is also a vast online archive on its website.