How we teach about the Holocaust At The Florida Holocaust Museum we work with the definition of the Holocaust created by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: “The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. [...] The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were ‘racially superior’ and that the Jews, deemed ‘inferior,’ were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.” While we focus on the history of persecution of Jews during the Holocaust, we also teach about the persecution of other victim groups by the Nazi regime: Roma and Sinti, Slavs, the disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, political opponents, and others. Our core exhibition has didactic panels that are periodically updated to reflect the most current research. Various sections of the exhibition also contain archival images and authentic artifacts that help us translate statistics into people’s lives – we believe in the importance of every life destroyed during the Holocaust and want to give a voice to the victims and survivors. Many of the artifacts on display come from the Holocaust survivors who speak to school groups at our Museum. Teaching through historical facts combined with authentic individual stories helps us build an awareness about one of the darkest chapters in human history and draw lessons to create a more peaceful today and tomorrow. It is also a powerful tool in fighting Holocaust denial.
Part of the core exhibition at The Florida Holocaust Museum
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