The New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...

 was founded in 2001 by Holocaust survivor Werner Gellert and his wife, Frances Gellert, to educate people about the Holocaust

The Holocaust

The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...

 as well as other genocide

Genocide

Genocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group", though what constitutes enough of a "part" to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars...

s and forms of bullying that have affected people around the world.http://www.nmholocaustmuseum.org/

In addition to the general public, the museum provides tours for schoolchildren, and offers training for Teachers and School Administrators about Intolerance and Hate Prevention, and hosts monthly discussion groups. http://www.ped.state.nm.us/press/2002/mar/march13a.html

Due to the sensitive and graphic nature of the exhibits, it has been recommended not to bring nhildren under the age of 11 to the exhibit. http://albuquerque.about.com/od/attractions/p/HolocaustMuseumofNewMexico.htm

Their focus is not limited to one religion, culture, geographic area, or time.

Exhibits

Exhibits are largely the effort of Museum volunteers, and are subject to change.

Holocaust Exhibits have included:

• Art of the Holocaust
• The Liberation of Buchenwald
• Saving Bulgarian Jews
• Child Slave Labor
• The Survivors of Dauchau
• The Rescue of the Danish Jews
  Rescue of the Danish Jews
  The rescue of the Danish Jews occurred during Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark during World War II. On October 1st 1943 Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ordered Danish Jews to be arrested and deported...
  
  
• Flossenburg
  Flossenbürg
  Flossenbürg is a municipality in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab in Bavaria in Germany. The state-approved leisure area is located in the Bavarian Forest and borders the Czech Republic in the east. During World War II, the Flossenbürg concentration camp was located here.- History :The...
  
   Slave Labor
• Replica Concentration Camp Gate
• Medical Experimentation in Nazi Germany
  Nazi human experimentation
  Nazi human experimentation was a series of medical experiments on large numbers of prisoners by the Nazi German regime in its concentration camps mainly in the early 1940s, during World War II and the Holocaust. Prisoners were coerced into participating: they did not willingly volunteer and there...
  
  
• Nazi Memorabilia
• The Nuremberg Trials
  Nuremberg Trials
  The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany....
  
  
• Photographs of Rescued Prisoners
• Rescuer's Exhibit
• Sonia's Legacy (The art of Sonja Fischerova, killed at Auschwitz on May 18, 1944)http://www.sonjaslegacy.com
• Holocaust Stamps

Other Exhibits have included:

• Media Coverage of Hate and Intolerance
• Armenian Genocide
  Armenian Genocide
  The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, as the Great Crime—refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I...
  
  
• Greek Genocide
• Native American Cultural Genocide
• 'Tolerated' Genocide in Rwanda
  Rwandan Genocide
  The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days through mid-July, over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate...