Holocaust Memorial Center

The Zekelman Family Holocaust Memorial Center ( ZFHMC ) in Farmington Hills, Michigan, was founded in 1984 by the Shaarit Haplaytah organization headed by Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig first Holocaust museum in the United States.

It is considered a model for the Holocaust Centre in Washington DC, the Tolerance Center in Los Angeles, California, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage Museum in New York. More than 2.5 million have visited the HMC since its inception. 1.6 million of them are pupils or students. In 2000 alone visited 4300 groups from Michigan, the Midwest and Canada the museum. The museum shows the horrors of the persecution and extermination of European Jews by the Nazis. It also shows the highlights of the over 2000 -year history and culture of a people.

The library and the archive of the center include over 15,000 books and documents in different languages ​​(English, German, Hebrew, Yiddish, ... ), 1,000 videos, numerous documents and microfilms of the most important in the United States.

The museum has an Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service will be completed.

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