Just off the lobby, an illustrated time line highlights the 4,000-year-long history of the Jewish people.

The Museum of European Jewish Heritage is a memorial to the Jews and Jewish life which once thrived in more than 23,000 communities across the European continent. 

A ramp leading the visitor down into the Holocaust Museum shows the political and legal climate in which Hitler and the Nazi Party operated.

The major events chronicling the step-by-step implementation of the ‘Final Solution’ are explained with state-of-the-art exhibits.

One now enters a more brightly-lit area where the aftermath of the atrocities are dealt with.

The Harry and Wanda Zekelman International Institute of the Righteous honors the thousands of righteous individuals who saved, or tried to save, at least one Jew, and who knowingly placed themselves in mortal danger.

The Holocaust Memorial Center is a place of solemn remembrance, where an eternal flame burns in honor of those who perished. 

The Library Archive is a multilingual research collection which specializes in the history, background and impact of the Holocaust, European Jewish history and Jewish-Christian relations.