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20TH ANNIVERSARY

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BACKGROUND

For 20 years, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has inspired millions by teaching the lessons of the Holocaust. To mark its 20th anniversary, the Museum will hold a historic gathering of Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans in Washington, DC, and a four-city tour to engage the public with its work and demonstrate the continuing relevance of the Holocaust.

On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, individuals around the world are invited to join in the Museum’s work to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive and bring its lessons to current and future generations. A special 20th anniversary website, ushmm.org/neveragain, provides 20 actions people anywhere can take to raise awareness about the Holocaust and its continuing relevance. Visitors to the website can share stories, photographs, or videos about how the Museum or the memory of the Holocaust has inspired them to take action to confront hate or antisemitism today. They can also take an online pledge to meet the challenge of genocide.

These are images that reflect some of the programming going on the road as a part of the 20th tour stops.

Niusia Gordon’s false papers; her parents’ marriage registration; photos kept in hiding; postwar photos; three postcards sent to Niusia by her mother, Basia, from the Vilna ghetto; and the violin of Boruch Gordon,who was murdered in 1943 by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Ponary forest near Vilna, Lithuania.
Passengers board the SS St. Louis.
Group portrait of Jewish refugee preschoolers at the Christobal Colon school in Sosua.
Jews are boarded onto the back of a truck during a deportation action from Kerpen, Germany. Before their deportation the Jews were assembled at the”Judenhaus” on the Hindenburgstrasse. On July 18, 1942 the last 31 Jews were deported from this location.
Artifacts donated to the Museum by Anthony Acevedo, a medic with the US Army’s 70th Infantry Division during World War II.
Detail of the Museum’s Children’s Tile Wall.
14th Street Entrance of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Pages from the diary of Helen Baker.
Procession of US Army liberating division flags at the National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance in the US Capitol.
Philadelphia police recruits tour the Museum during their Law Enforcement and Society training.
American soldiers at Dachau, April 1945.
One of the three milk cans used by Warsaw ghetto historian Emanuel Ringelblum to store and preserve the secret “Oneg Shabbat” ghetto archives.
A portrait of Gerda Weissman Klein.
Detail from a 1936 poster with the heading “All of Germany Listens to the Führer with the People’s Radio.”
Claude Lanzmann interviews Peter Bergson, Abraham Bomba, and Ruth Elias for SHOAH, 1978-1979.
Typewriter used by Pastor Martin Niemöller to compose sermons critical of Nazism.
Shoes confiscated from prisoners at Majdanek, on loan from the State Museum of Majdanek, Lublin, Poland.

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