Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus

The Holocaust is a history not only of evil, although the evil is undeniable, but also of great courage, strength, and righteousness. The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus has been teaching about the Holocaust and its legacy for more than 25 years, and its building, exhibits and programs have been receiving international accolades. “The visit to the Holocaust Center changed our lives” is the most prevalent reaction from our millions of visitors. The Wall Street Journal, in a front-page article, said in reference to the architecture of our building that our museum “may be the most provocative museum of them all.” The visitor will experience a brief exposure to the most researched era in human history - revealing a flourishing culture and its brutal suppression, a chronicle of admirable and heroic rescuers and abject executioners. Through our exhibits the past casts its light and shadows into the present. The special exhibit, “Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann” runs January 26 through mid-June, 2020. The exhibit reveals the secret history behind the capture, extradition and trial of one of the world’s most notorious escaped war criminals. Eichmann, the head of the Nazis’ homicidal “Jewish Department,” who managed the transport of millions of innocent people to death camps, vanished after World War II. Photographs, film and recently declassified spy artifacts reveal the dramatic history behind the daring abduction and globally broadcast trial of a principal perpetrator of The Final Solution, Nazi Germany’s plan for the mass murder of Europe’s Jews. This is the last opportunity to see the exhibit in the U.S.