Holocaust Memorials Events

1933 Founding of the Wiener Library
The Wiener Library is the world's oldest institution devoted to the study of the Holocaust, its causes and legacies. Founded in 1933 as an information bureau that informed Jewish communit...
1949 Founding of the Ghetto Fighters' House
The Ghetto Fighters' House (Hebrew: בית לוחמי הגטאות‎), full name, Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, was founded in 1949 by members of K...
1953 Israel Establishes Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem (Hebrew: יד ושם‎ also spelled Yad VaShem; "Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority") is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust establish...
1960 May 3 Anne Frank House Opens on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam
The Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is a museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank, who hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four...
1962 Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation Opens
The Mémorial de la Déportation is a memorial to the 200,000 people deported from Vichy France to the Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War. It is in Paris, France on the si...
1971 Dedication of the Scroll of Fire Monument in the Forest of the Martyrs
Dedicated in 1971 by Bnai Brith, the Scroll of Fire is the work of Warsaw-born Nathan Rapoport. Memorials to the Holocaust were a central theme in Rapoport’s works. His sculptures can als...
1979 Founding of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre (MHMC) is a museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, dedicated to Holocaust education and awareness. It was founded in 1979 by a group of Holocaust survi...
1984 Establishment of the Dallas Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies (Now Called the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education & Tolerance)
The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education & Tolerance is a Holocaust museum located in Dallas, Texas. In 1977, 125 Jewish Holocaust Survivors and North Texas residents joined toget...
1984 George Segal Completes the Holocaust Memorial at California Palace of the Legion of Honor
George Segal's public sculpture, "The Holocaust," sits in Legion of Honor Park in San Francisco overlooking a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean. Often visitors find the sculpture an une...
1984 Oct Dedication and Opening of the Holocaust Memorial Center
Ground was broken for the Holocaust Memorial Center on the property of the Jewish Community Campus at Maple and Drake Roads in West Bloomfield, Michigan December 6, 1981. Almost three yea...
1990 Feb 4 Opening of the Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach
The Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach is a Holocaust memorial in Miami Beach, Florida. It was conceived by a committee of Holocaust survivors in 1984, formally established in 1985 as the ...
1991 Sep 29 Monument to Jews Killed at Babi Yar Massacre Opens
Soviet leadership discouraged placing any emphasis on the Jewish aspect of the Babi Yar tragedy; instead, it presented these atrocities as crimes committed against the Soviet people in ge...
1992 Florida Holocaust Museum (Formerly the Holocaust Center) Opens
The Florida Holocaust Museum is a Holocaust museum located in St. Petersburg, Florida. Formerly known as the Holocaust Center, the museum officially changed to its current name in 1999. F...
1992 Sep 1 First Participant in the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service
The first participant of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service (AHMS) started his work on September 1st 1992 at the Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau. Since then more than 400 Austrian Holocaus...
1993 Museum of Tolerance Opens
The Museum of Tolerance (MOT), a multimedia museum in Los Angeles, California, USA, with an associated museum and professional development multi-media training facility in New York City, ...
1993 Apr 22 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Opens on the National Mall in DC
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' living memorial to The Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM is dedicated to he...
1994 Steven Spielberg Establishes the USC Shoah Foundation
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, formerly Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a nonprofit organization established by Steven Spielberg...
1994 Sep 1 Dedication of Holocaust Memorial at Site of Klooga Concentration Camp
On September 1, 1994, a memorial dedicated to Jews killed in the Second World War was opened in Klooga, on the territory of the former concentration camp. This memorial stone was erected ...
1995 Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre Opens
Beth Shalom is a Holocaust memorial centre near Laxton in Nottinghamshire in England. Opened in 1995, it is England's only Holocaust museum. The centre was founded by brothers James and S...
1996 Holocaust Museum Houston Opens
The Holocaust Museum Houston, is located in Houston, Texas and was opened in 1996. The museum is located in the Houston Museum District. The museum is the fourth largest Holocaust memo...
1997 Founding of the Virginia Holocaust Museum
The Virginia Holocaust Museum was founded in 1997 by Mark Fetter, Al Rosenbaum, and one of Richmond’s youngest Holocaust survivors, Jay Ipson, in an effort to preserve and educate people ...
1997 Sep 15 Museum of Jewish Heritage Opens in Manhattan
The Museum of Jewish Heritage, in lower Manhattan, was created as a living memorial to the Holocaust. The hexagonal shape and tiered roof of the building are symbolic of the six points of...
1998 Founding of the Holocaust History Project
"No holes, no Holocaust" has long been one of the denier community's favorite slogans. It refers to the holes in the roof of Kremas (crematoria) II and III at the Auschwitz-Birkenau exter...
1999 Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour Opens
The Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour (the memorial center of Oradour) has made its mission to commemorate the crimes of the 2nd armored division of the Waffen-SS "Das Reich" in Oradour-sur-...
2000 Sep Opening of Auschwitz Jewish Center
The main exhibition presents the nearly 500 years of Jewish history, tradition, and culture in Oswiecim. Visitors to the Center have the opportunity to connect with Oswiecim’s pre-war Jew...
2000 Oct 25 Unveiling of Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial
The Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial (German: Mahnmal für die 65.000 ermordeten österreichischen Juden und Jüdinnen der Shoah) also known as the Nameless Library stands in Judenplatz in the ...
2001 Monument to Children Killed at Babi Yar
Babi Yar, a ravine near Kiev, was the scene of possibly the largest shooting massacre during The Holocaust. After the war, commemoration efforts encountered serious difficulty because of ...
2001 Nov 9 Children's Holocaust Memorial is Unveiled
The Children's Holocaust Memorial consists of an authentic German transport car (which arrived in Baltimore on September 9, 2001) surrounded by a small garden.The railcar is filled with 1...
2004 Dec 15 Completion of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal), is a memorial in Berlin t...
2009 Apr 19 Opening of New Museum Building of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is the main memorial and educational center for The Holocaust in the Midwestern United States. Its foundation cost was 45 million dollar...
2009 Dec 18 Notorious 'Arbeit Macht Frei ' Sign Stolen from Site of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Thieves stole the notorious sign bearing the cynical Nazi slogan "Work Sets You Free" from the entrance to the former Auschwitz death camp on Friday, cutting through rows of barbed wire a...
2009 Dec 22 Stolen 'Arbeit Macht Frei' Sign Retreived and Returned to Auschwitz Former Nazi Death Camp
Polish police found the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign that was stolen from the gate of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz after an intensive three-day hunt and arrested five susp...
2011 May 18 Notorious 'Arbeit Macht Frei ' Sign Restored to Site of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
The "Arbeit macht frei" (work sets you free) sign was stolen by a gang of Polish thieves acting at the behest of a Swedish far-right-winger. Technicians unveiled the restored sign in t...