Places to go to find out about the Holocaust

There are many places you can visit to find out more about the holocaust including museums, memorials and remains. Here is some information about some good places to visit.

Anne Frank’s house

Anne Frank’s house is located in Prinsengracht Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is now a writer’s house and a biographical museum all about Jewish wartime and what life was like for Anne Frank.

Auschwitz concentration camp

Located near the town of Oświęcim in the south Poland (in a part of the country that was taken over by Germany. The camp during world war two was actually three camps: a prison camp, an extermination camp, and a slave-labour camp. It shows a lot of the conditions that you would have to live through and many parts of the holocaust history took place here.

Burgkloster

Burgkloster is in Lubeck, Germany and is castle monastery that is one the most important medieval monasteries. After that it was a poorhouse until the nineteenth century. Then it was used as a Nazi prison holding Jews and those who formed the resistance. Now, Burgloster is a museum of Lubeck’s history and displays of Lubeck’s Jewish history.

Green house

The Green house is situated in Vilnius, Lithuania. It is a holocaust exhibition called the Green House. The rooms of this house show the story of a Jewish community. It included exhibits like documents, audio and visual things such as testimonies.

Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz

In Berlin, Germany, there is a memorial to the holocaust and history of the uprising of the Nazi’s and the journey of anti-Semitism. The site of the haus der wannsee-konferenz was were the wannsee conference took place which was where Nazi’s organized the murder of the jewish population in east Europe.

Jewish museum

The Jewish museum in Berlin travels around the history of Jews in world war two. It does this lots of different ways like displays, objects, photographs, audio, films and documents.

Krakow ghetto wall

The ghetto wall is in Krakow, Poland and is one of the last remaining walls that went around the edge of the ghetto. The ghetto was part of a plan to kill the Jews and this is where some of them were put. After the Jews had stayed in there they were sent off to concentration camps.

The holocaust memorial

The Holocaust Memorial

The holocaust memorial was in memory of the murdered Jews, over six million of them. The memorial has an information centre where it has details of the dead. It is based in berlin, Germany.

Tolerance center

The tolerance center is found in Vilnius, Lithuania. It covers topics like cultural education of society, social publication of culture, unique cultural heritage and major human rights.

Umschlagplatz

In Warsaw, Poland, there is a square where Jewish people were sent to death camps from, during world war two. Nowadays, it stands a moving assembly from where thousand were taken away from their lives.

Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem is located in Jerusalem, Israel in the Middle East. It’s a museum and memorial of the holocaust where over six million Jews and five million others were killed in mass genocide by the Nazi’s, under the control of Adolf Hitler. The museum tells us of the events of the holocaust and things like victim’s accounts.