- New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum
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The New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico was founded in 2001 by Holocaust survivor Werner Gellert and his wife, Frances Gellert, to educate people about the Holocaust as well as other genocides and forms of bullying that have affected people around the world.[1]
In addition to the general public, the museum provides tours for schoolchildren, and offers training for Teachers and School Administrators about Intolerance and Hate Prevention, and hosts monthly discussion groups. [2]
Due to the sensitive and graphic nature of the exhibits, it has been recommended not to bring nhildren under the age of 11 to the exhibit. [3]
Their focus is not limited to one religion, culture, geographic area, or time.
Exhibits
Exhibits are largely the effort of Museum volunteers, and are subject to change.
Holocaust Exhibits have included:
- Art of the Holocaust
- The Liberation of Buchenwald
- Saving Bulgarian Jews
- Child Slave Labor
- The Survivors of Dauchau
- The Rescue of the Danish Jews
- Flossenburg Slave Labor
- Replica Concentration Camp Gate
- Medical Experimentation in Nazi Germany
- Nazi Memorabilia
- The Nuremberg Trials
- Photographs of Rescued Prisoners
- Rescuer's Exhibit
- Sonia's Legacy (The art of Sonja Fischerova, killed at Auschwitz on May 18, 1944)[4]
- Holocaust Stamps
Other Exhibits have included:
- Media Coverage of Hate and Intolerance
- Armenian Genocide
- Greek Genocide
- Native American Cultural Genocide
- 'Tolerated' Genocide in Rwanda
References
- Official Website for the New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum
- New Mexico State Department of Education Press Release, March 13, 2002
- About.com Museum Overview
- Sonja's Legacy Foundation
Categories:- Museums in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Holocaust museums in the United States
- History museums in New Mexico
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