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Tuesday, January 27, marked the tenth anniversary of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Although the day may have already come and gone, at Lions Pride, we wholeheartedly agree with the many sources that have said, “We must remember, remind and never forget.”
Less than a century ago, over six million innocent people were killed because of one defining factor, their faith. Commemorating this anniversary gives us a chance to reflect on the progress the world has made since that time, while realizing how far we still have to go.
With each passing day, we get closer and closer to a time when there will be no remaining Holocaust survivors to tell us their first-hand experience about that troubling period; all we will have left are pictures.
Take some time this week to follow to remember those innocent men, women and children.
If you are planning to travel this summer there are a number of Museums that share the story of the Holocaust. Here is the list by state:
- Arizona
- The Holocaust and Tolerance Museum (Chandler)
- California
- The Desert Holocaust Memorial (Palm Desert)
- Holocaust Center of Northern California (San Francisco)
- The Holocaust Memorial at California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco)
- Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
- The Museum of Tolerance (Los Angeles)
- The Simon Wiesenthal Center (Los Angeles)
- The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation at University of Southern California (Los Angeles)
- Florida
- The Florida Holocaust Museum (St. Petersburg)
- The Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation (Miami Beach)
- The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida (Maitland)
- The Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida (Naples)
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center (Terra Haute)
- Louisiana
- New Orleans Holocaust Memorial at Woldenberg Park
- Maryland
- The Baltimore Holocaust Memorial
- Massachusetts
- The New England Holocaust Memorial (Boston)
- Michigan
- The Holocaust Memorial Center (Detroit)
- University of Michigan Holocaust Memorial, Raoul Wallenberg Plaza, (Ann Arbor)
- Mississippi
- Clarksdale, Mississippi, Holocaust Memorial
- Nebraska
- The Nebraska Holocaust Memorial (Lincoln)
- New Jersey
- Liberation (Holocaust Memorial), Liberty State Park (Jersey City)
- New Mexico
- The New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum (Alburquerque)
- New York
- The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (Manhattan)
- Museum of Jewish Heritage (Manhattan)
- Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, Welwyn Preserve, (Glen Cove, Long Island)
- Ohio
- The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education (Cincinnati)
- Oregon
- Oregon Holocaust Memorial (Portland)
- Pennsylvania
- The Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center (Philadelphia)
- Holocaust Memorial for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg)
- Holocaust Center of Greater Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh)
- Philadelphia Holocaust Memorial at Benjamin Franklin Parkway – Memorial to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Wisconsin
- Holocaust Memorial (Milwaukee)
- Virginia
- The Virginia Holocaust Museum (Richmond)