How do I get tickets to see the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum?
Opened in April 1993, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., summons all who enter its portals to rise to an important and extraordinary challenge: to remember and immortalize the 6 milion Jews and millions of other Nazi victims of World War II–Gypsies, Poles, homosexuals, the handicapped, Jehovah’s Witnesses, political and religious dissidents, Soviet prisoners of war–who were murdered in the most horrifying event of our time: the Holocaust. The main task of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is to present the facts of the Holocaust, to tell the American public as clearly and comprehensively as possible what happened in that darkest chapter of human history. To this end, the Museum has reconstructed the history of the Holocaust through multiple media: the meaningful arrangement of objects as well as the presentation of documentary photographic and cinematographic materials. This museum hold
