education at the holocaust memorial center
The Holocaust Memorial Center has so much to offer you! Explore our museum independently, take a docent-led tour, or join us or for one of our special exhibits or events. Teachers—let us help you foster your students learning in your classroom and in our museum. We can provide you with inter-disciplinary Holocaust education training, support and curriculum integration.
Holocaust & Survivor Defined
The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. In addition to the murder of approximately 6,000,000 Jews, millions more, including persons with disabilities, Poles, Roma and Sinti (Gypsies), gay men, Jehovah’s Witnesses, prisoners of war, and political dissidents, also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny.
The Holocaust Memorial Center honors as survivors any persons, Jewish or non-Jewish, who were displaced, persecuted, or discriminated against due to the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and political policies of the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps, ghettos, and prisons, this definition includes, among others, people who were refugees or were in hiding.