Our list of exhibits continues to grow and evolve. Below is a quick list and description of what you will find in our museum (updated December 8, 2003):

Art of the Holocaust

This section of our museum contains various works of art created to commemorate the Holocaust.

The Liberation of Buchenwald

These photographs showcase what the liberators found when they entered the Buchenwald concentration camp. Some of the photos were taken by German Gestapo and SS troops.

Saving Bulgarian Jews

This area describes how the Bulgarian government saved over 63,000 Bulgarian Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Child Slave Labor

These photographs depict children working in different concentration camps. They were taken by German guards at the camps. This exhibit also contains a mesh sculpture by Vivienne Hermann representing the sleeping areas of the children at these camps. Vivienne Hermann was in a slave labor camp as a child and is a Holocaust survivor.
Special thanks to JFNM for loaning us this powerful sculpture.

The Survivors of Dauchau

This exhibit contains photographs taken by the late Albuquerque photographer Dick Kent. Mr. Kent worked with the Signal Corps during WWII under the late George Stevens, a Hollywood movie producer.

The Rescue of the Danish Jews

The Danish people, in concert with their government, smuggled Jews out of Denmark into Sweden, which was a neutral country that was not occupied by the Germans during the war. As a result of these efforts, only 289 Danish Jews were taken by the Germans.

Flossenburg Slave Labor

The Flossenburg slave labor camp was used for both Jews and non-Jews who were forced to work in a factory and coal mine. Flossenburg has the unfortunate distinction of being home to the first fully automated killing system, which gassed prisoners and then moved them on conveyers to a chute that led to incineration ovens. Prisoners at the Flossenburg camp created three flags during their captivity (one each for America, Britain and Russia), and we are privileged to have the American flag in our museum.
Our thanks go to Dr. Roy Schaffer for donating this unique item to our museum.

Replica Concentration Camp Gate

This sculpture by Vivienne Hermann is on extended loan by the Jewish Federation of Greater Albuquerque. It is a composite of the gates the prisoners saw upon their arrival at the concentration camps. The phrase "Arbeit Macht Frie" across the top means "Work Sets You Free." Vivienne Hermann was in a slave labor camp as a child and is a Holocaust survivor.
Special thanks to JFGA for loaning us this powerful sculpture.

Medical Experimentation in Nazi Germany

These photographs show the results of the medical experiments performed under the leadership of Dr. Mengele. They were taken by German and Russian soldiers.

Nazi Memorabilia

Our exhibit of Nazi Memorabilia includes a variety of items including a German gun, Nazi flag, Medals and printed materials used by the Nazis.

The Nuremberg Trials

Larry Rhee, a resident of Albuquerque, was an official photographer and translator for the United States during the Nuremberg Trials. This exhibit contains news reports, photographs and final statements of some of the Germans who were tried and convicted at the trials.
Special thanks to Larry Rhee for donating this material to us.

Photographs of Rescued Prisoners

These posters show images of the liberation of various concentration camps, including photographs of the rehabilitation of Jewish prisoners and their resettlement into Israel.
Special thanks to the Consulate of Israel in Houston, TX for donation this material to us.

Rescuer's Exhibit

This area highlights those individuals who put their lives on the line to save Jews. By German law, "Anyone who aids or helps the Jews is subject to arrest and execution." Rescuers included priests, foreign diplomats and extraordinary people from many countries.

Sonia's Legacy

This exhibit contains artwork that was created by a teenaged girl in a concentration camp. She was eventually sent to Auschwitz where she perished.

Holocaust Stamps

This exhibit consists of two rare stamps from the Holocaust. The first is from the Thierenstadt, Czechoslovakia  concentration camp and could be used twice - once to send mail to an inmate and then a second time for the inmate to send a letter out of the camp. The second stamp served a similar purpose at the Lodj Ghetto in Poland.
Special thanks for Dr. Lawrence and Linda Cole for this donation.

Educational Mini-Theater

Our theater area is used to show educational videos to our visitors. Some of the titles include:

• Daniel's Story
• The Madonna of the Slaughtered Jews
• This is our Land

Some of these titles are also available for sale and can be donated to schools.
Special thanks to Baillo's for donating our TV/VCR.

Media Coverage of Hate and Intolerance

We constantly scour newspapers and magazines for printed information appropriate to our mission. Many of these articles are posted on a bulletin board in the museum, but even more of them are placed into our archives, which are growing rapidly. For example, this area includes an article from the December, 7, 2003 issue of Parade Magazine describing the fate of the 937 Jews aboard the SS St. Louis, who were turned away by Cuba and the United States and forced to return to Germany.

Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Church is the oldest Christian Church in the World. During World War I, the Ottoman Turks were unsuccessful in their attempts to force the Armenians to accept the Muslim religion. The Ottoman Turks retaliated by enslaving many Armenians and selling others to Muslims. Adolf Hitler said “ The world said nothing when the Turks killed the Armenians, so the world will say nothing when we kill the Jews”.

Following are some direct quotes from the Zoryan Institute of Canada:

“The genocide of the Armenian people during the First World War was the ultimate human rights violation in a long history of oppression of the Armenians, along with other groups, by the Ottoman Turkish government. To improve the lot of the largely peasant Armenian population, Armenian political parties had long struggled for a new social order based on equality between the various religious and ethnic groups in the Ottoman Empire, as well as political and economic justice.

The genocide perpetrated by the Ittihad ve Terakke (Committee for Union Progress) government beginning in 1915, is significant for world history, as well as the victim people. The methods used to rationalize, organize and implement the mass murder of up to 1.5 million citizens of the Ottoman Empire are an archetype for subsequent genocides into the 21st Century. Hitler used the Armenian Genocide as justification for his plan to annihilate Poland in 1939, whereby he was quoted as saying, “After all, who today remembers the Armenians?”

Bataan Death March

When the Japanese captured American soldiers in the Philippines during World War II, they were put into a forced death march of over 50 miles on the island of Corregidor with no water or food. Several Battalions from New Mexico were included in this event and many New Mexicans died or were held in terrible conditions and tortured.

 

 

Greek Genocide

The Ottoman Turks also persecuted Greeks in an attempt to force them to become Muslims and to expand the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean.

Native American Cultural Genocide

This area contains photos and information about the Bosque del Redondo and Wounded Knee incidents forced by the United States Government onto Native Americans. Bosque de Redondo was designed to "take the Indian out of the Indians" and to "save souls" by removing Indian children from their families and placing them in boarding schools.