List of Holocaust memorials and museums in the United States explained

This is a list of Holocaust memorials and museums situated in the United States, organized by state.

Online only

• The Cybrary of the Holocaust^[1]
• The Nizkor Project^[2]

Arizona

• The Center for Hope, Humanity, and Holocaust Education (Phoenix)
• Jewish Museum and Holocaust Center^[3] (Tucson)

California

• The Desert Holocaust Memorial^[4] (Palm Desert)
• Holocaust Center of Northern California^[5] (San Francisco)
• The Holocaust Memorial at California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park (San Francisco)
• Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust^[6]
• The Museum of Tolerance^[7] (Los Angeles)
• The Pink Triangle Park (San Francisco)
• The Simon Wiesenthal Center (Los Angeles)
• The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation at University of Southern California (Los Angeles)

Colorado

• The Babi Yar Park (Denver)^[8]
• Holocaust Memorial Social Action Site (University of Denver campus)^[9]

Connecticut

• The New Haven Holocaust Memorial (New Haven)^[10]

Florida

• The Florida Holocaust Museum (St. Petersburg)
• The Frisch Family Holocaust Memorial Gallery (Jacksonville)
• The Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation (Miami Beach)
• The Holocaust Documentation & Education Center (Dania Beach)^[11]
• The Holocaust Museum & Education Center of SWFL (Naples)
• The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center (Maitland)

Georgia

• The Kennesaw State University Museum of History and Holocaust Education (Kennesaw)^[12]
• The William Breman Jewish Heritage & Holocaust Museum (Atlanta)^[13]

Idaho

• Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial (Boise)

Illinois

• Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center (Skokie)
• Peoria Holocaust Memorial (Peoria)^[14]

Indiana

• CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center (Terre Haute)

Louisiana

• New Orleans Holocaust Memorial at Woldenberg Park,

sculpture by Yaacov Agam.^[15]

• Alexandria Holocaust Memorial, Holocaust Memorial Park

Maine

• The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine (Augusta)^[16]

Maryland

• The Baltimore Holocaust Memorial^[17]

Massachusetts

• The New England Holocaust Memorial (Boston)

• "A Reason to Remember: Roth, Germany 1933-1942", a permanent exhibit, is housed at the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.^[18]

Michigan

• The Holocaust Memorial Center (Farmington Hills)^[19]
• University of Michigan Holocaust Memorial, Raoul Wallenberg Plaza (Ann Arbor)^[20]

sculpture by Leonard Baskin

• Holocaust Memorial, Oakview Cemetery (Royal Oak)

Mississippi

• Holocaust Memorial (Clarksdale)
• Unknown Child Foundation (Hernando)

Missouri

• Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum (St. Louis)

Nebraska

• The Nebraska Holocaust Memorial (Lincoln)

New Hampshire

• New Hampshire Holocaust Memorial (Nashua)^[21]

New Jersey

Museums and institutions

• Esther Raab Holocaust Museum & Goodwin Education Center,^[22] Cherry Hill
• The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (Manhattan)^[23]
• Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center, Galloway^[24]

Monuments

• South Jersey Holocaust memorial, Alliance cemetery (Norma)^[25]
• Camden County Holocaust Memorial (Cherry Hill) dedicated June 7, 1981
• Liberation, Liberty State Park (Jersey City)
• Holocaust memorial at Congregation Sons of Israel synagogue, 590 Madison Ave (Lakewood)
• (Proposed) Northern New Jersey Holocaust Memorial, Teaneck Municipal Green (Teaneck)^{[26] [27]}
• Hunterdon County Holocaust Memorial at The Flemington Jewish Community Center Cemetery on Capner St. (Flemington)^[28]

Markers

• Holocaust marker at the Bergen County Court House (Hackensack)^[29]
• Holocaust marker at the Fair Lawn Municipal Building (Fair Lawn)^[30]

New Mexico

• The New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum,^[31] Albuquerque

New York

Museums and institutions

• Amud Aish Memorial Museum (Brooklyn)^[32]
• Museum of Jewish Heritage (Manhattan)
• Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, Welwyn Preserve (Glen Cove, Long Island)^[33]
• Stuart Elenko Holocaust Museum at the Bronx High School of Science (Bronx)
• Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum (Oswego)

Monuments

• The Holocaust Memorial Park (Brooklyn)
• Holocaust Memorial, City Hall Plaza (Long Beach)
• Memorial to Victims of the Injustice of the Holocaust: 1938–1945, Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court (Manhattan)
• (Proposed) The "Capital District Jewish Holocaust Memorial", 2501 Troy Schenectady Road (Niskayuna)^{[34] [35]}
• Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Plaza in Riverside Park (Manhattan)

Ohio

• Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial at the Ohio Statehouse (Columbus)^{[36] [37]}
• “Promise For Life” sculpture on the Trinity Lutheran Seminary campus (Columbus)^[38]
• Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center, Cincinnati Union Terminal (Cincinnati)
• Holocaust Memorial (Cleveland)
• Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage (Beachwood)^[39]

Oklahoma

• The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art (Tulsa)^[40]

Oregon

• Oregon Holocaust Memorial (Portland)

Pennsylvania

• The Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center (Philadelphia)
• Holocaust Memorial (Harrisburg)
• Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh)
• The Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza (Philadelphia)
  • Memorial to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs^[41]

Rhode Island

• Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center (Providence)
• Rhode Island Holocaust Memorial Park (Providence)

South Carolina

• Charleston Holocaust Memorial (Charleston)

Tennessee

• Nashville Holocaust Memorial (Nashville)^[42]
• The Children's Holocaust Memorial and Paper Clip Project at Whitwell Middle School (Whitwell)

Texas

• The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum^[43]
• The El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center^[44]
• The Holocaust History Project (San Antonio)
• Holocaust Museum Houston^[45]
• The Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio^[46]

Virginia

• Emek Sholom Holocaust Memorial Cemetery (Henrico)
• The Virginia Holocaust Museum^[47] (Richmond)

Washington

• Holocaust Center for Humanity (Seattle)

Washington, D.C.

• The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum^[48]

Wisconsin

• Holocaust Memorial (Milwaukee)

See also

• List of Holocaust memorials and museums — worldwide

Notes and References

1. Web site: Remember.org . Remember.org . 1995-04-25 . 2012-10-14.
2. Web site: nizkor.org . nizkor.org . 2022-10-24.
3. Web site: jewishhistorymuseum.org . jewishhistorymuseum.org . 2022-10-24.
4. Web site: palmsprings.com/attractions/desert-holocaust-memorial/ . 2022-10-24.
5. Web site: holocaustcenter.jfcs.org . jewishhistorymuseum.org . 2022-10-24.
6. Web site: holocaustmuseumla.org . holocaustmuseumla.org . 2022-10-24.
7. Web site: museumoftolerance.com/ . museumoftolerance.com/ . 2022-10-24.
8. News: Babi Yar Park: A Living Holocaust Memorial- The Mizel Museum. The Mizel Museum. 2017-09-05. en-US.
9. Web site: University of Denver Holocaust Memorial Social Action Site. 31 March 2011. 26 October 2022. Center for Intercultural Dialogue.
10. Web site: New Haven Holocaust Memorial. 25 August 2017. 14 October 2023. Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven.
11. News: Howard. Cohen . Holocaust center co-founder, director Goldie Goldstein dies at 97 . . 2017-07-24 . 2017-07-24.
12. Web site: Museum of History & Holocaust Education . Kennesaw.edu . 2012-10-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121005180117/http://www.kennesaw.edu/historymuseum/ . 2012-10-05 .
13. Web site: Thebreman.org . Thebreman.org . 2012-10-14.
14. Web site: Gaul . Alex . Remembering the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah . 2023-01-06 . 25newsnow.com . April 28, 2022 . en.
15. Web site: The New Orleans Holocaust Memorial. Clifford H. Kern. III. holocaustmemorial.us.
16. Web site: 2023-08-10 . HHRCMAINE . 2023-10-11 . HHRCMAINE . en-US.
17. Web site: New Baltimore Holocaust Memorial . Josephsheppard.com . 2012-10-14.
18. Web site: Permanent Exhibition: A Reason to Remember . umass.edu . February 24, 2024.
19. Web site: Holocaust Memorial Center. 2021-06-08.
20. Web site: The Collection / Central Campus / Holocaust Memorial - President's Advisory Committee on Public Art. public-art.umich.edu.
21. Web site: Rich-Kern . Sheryl . Holocaust Memorial Opens in Nashua . www.nhpr.org/ . 30 May 2014 . New Hampshire Public Radio . 18 October 2021.
22. Web site: Esther Raab Holocaust Museum .
23. Web site: JFR.org . JFR.org . 2012-10-14.
24. Web site: The Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center - Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center Stockton University . 2023-10-11 . stockton.edu.
25. Web site: The South Jersey Holocaust Memorial. 17 January 2013.
26. Web site: Northern New Jersey Holocaust Memorial . 2023-10-11 . Northern New Jersey Holocaust Memorial . en-US.
27. Web site: Memorial.
28. Web site: Hunterdon County Holocaust Memorial Historical Marker.
29. Web site: Holocaust Historical Marker.
30. Web site: Holocaust and World War II Memorial, a War Memorial.
31. Web site: New Mexico Holocaust Museum .
32. News: A New Holocaust Museum Emerges in Brooklyn.
33. Web site: Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141215195218/https://www.holocaust-nassau.org/index.php. 2014-12-15.
34. Web site: Niskayuna Planning Board approves Holocaust Memorial site plan – the Daily Gazette. 10 February 2020 .
35. Web site: Holocaust memorial gets key support in Niskayuna. 11 February 2020.
36. http://libeskind.com/work/ohio-statehouse-holocaust-memorial/ Ohio Statehouse Holocaust Memorial
37. http://ohioholocaustmemorial.org/ Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial
38. Web site: Promise for Life | Capital University, Columbus Ohio.
39. Web site: HOME. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.
40. https://www.jewishmuseumtulsa.org/ The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art
41. Web site: Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs . Philadelphia Holocaust Memorial . 5 November 2013.
42. Web site: Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee . jewishnashville.org . 11 January 2016.
43. Web site: Dallas Holocaust Museum .
44. Web site: Elpasoholocaustmuseum.org . Elpasoholocaustmuseum.org . 2012-10-14.
45. Web site: Holocaust Museum Houston .
46. Web site: Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio . Hmmsa.org . 2012-10-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120425124229/http://www.hmmsa.org/index.asp . 2012-04-25 .
47. Web site: Virginia Holocaust Museum .
48. Web site: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum .