With this in-app audio tour, you will spot the highlights of the Holocaust Memorial Museum and learn stories told by eyewitnesses and survivors of Nazi camps.
Holocaust Memorial Museum adjacent to the National Mall in Washington D.C. is a living memorial to the Holocaust victims and survivors. Established in 1993, it features three floors of artifacts, photographs, archival documents, film footage, and survivals' testimonies. The building itself designed by James Ingo Freed is symbolic of the horrific history.
The building exterior and interior speak the language of architecture to plunge you into the atmosphere of a concentration camp. Start the tour at the Hall of Witness and get the ID card of one of the Holocaust victims to be updated along your route to know the fate of that person. Take the elevator to the fourth floor and explore chronological history of the Holocaust, from the Nazi rise to power to the Night of Broken Glass. Enter the Tower of Faces, three-storey tower made of photographs of a Lithuanian town 4,000 citizens killed in 2 days. Continue walking to the third floor and see re-created concentration camps and railcars that deported Jews to the killing centers. The tour ends on the second floor with the inspiring stories of Nazi camps liberation, and visiting in the Hall of Remembrance, where you can light a memorial candle.
This tour is for those who want to see and to know the real history with its dark and teaching sides.