Holocaust Museum Houston
This museum, the fourth largest of its kind in the country, does an excellent job educating visitors on the horrors of the Holocaust and honoring the memory of the 6 million Jews who lost their lives. A permanent exhibit entitled "Bearing Witness" includes two films which present first-hand accounts of Holocaust survivors and camp liberators who lived in the Houston area after the war. Visitors can also examine an authentic 1942-built German railroad cattle car; it is estimated that a total of 3 million Jews were hauled to death camps in cars exactly like this. Another rare relic on display, in striking contrast to the Nazi railcar, is a symbol of heroism—a World War II-era Danish fishing boat, the type used in 1943 to secretly carry over 7,000 Jews to safety in Sweden.
This museum, the fourth largest of its kind in the country, does an excellent job educating visitors on the horrors of the Holocaust and honoring the memory of the 6 million Jews who lost their lives. A permanent exhibit entitled "Bearing Witness" includes two films which present first-hand accounts of Holocaust survivors and camp liberators who lived in the Houston area after the war. Visitors can also examine an authentic 1942-built German railroad cattle car; it is estimated that a total of 3 million Jews were hauled to death camps in cars exactly like this. Another rare relic on display, in striking contrast to the Nazi railcar, is a symbol of heroism—a World War II-era Danish fishing boat, the type used in 1943 to secretly carry over 7,000 Jews to safety in Sweden.
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