The line between the experiential museum, with its high entertainment quotient and tech-heavy immersion in sound, video and gaming technology, and the theme park, with all of the above plus thrill rides, is an increasingly thin one. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, an early pioneer of the “you are there” approach, is clearly about education; the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, near the Quantico Marine Base, is more like Disneyland with artillery. Read full article > >

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In the late 1980s, when organizers of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum were searching for Nazi-era artifacts, they sought to tell a story that was industrial in its magnitude and horrifying in its detail. The results, a widely acclaimed permanent exhibition that broke new ground in museum design, may be in jeopardy as the museum deals with demands to return one of its most powerful and haunting objects. Read full article > >

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Holocaust Museum in negotiations to maintain loaned exhibitions

Rabbi Menachem Youlus, who told stories of traveling to Europe and beyond to search for Torahs that were lost during the Holocaust, said in Federal Court that he had made up those tales.

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Rabbi Menachem Youlus Says He Lied About Saving Torahs

Deb Margolin’s “Imagining Madoff” has a firm identity as The Play That Angered Elie Wiesel: Last year the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, one of the many bilked by the herculean Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, objected to Margolin’s portrayal. So Margolin was compelled to write Wiesel out of her fiction. Read full article > >

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Deb Margolin’s “Imagining Madoff” has a firm identity as The Play That Angered Elie Wiesel: Last year the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, one of the many bilked by the herculean Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, objected to Margolin’s portrayal. So Margolin was compelled to write Wiesel out of her fiction. Read full article > >

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The governor of Maryland signs a bill requiring a French railway company to disclose its role in the Holocaust if it seeks business in the US state.

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A company part-owned by the French railroad will have to detail the railway’s role in transporting Holocaust victims to Nazi death camps before it can compete again to operate Maryland commuter trains, according to legislation that Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) is scheduled to sign Thursday. The law will make Maryland the first state to require that a company seeking government rail contracts provides all records about Nazi victims it transported and any personal belongings taken from them, supporters said. Read full article > >

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Holocaust records likely required for French rail company’s MARC bids

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com are recruiting the public to help build the world’s largest online database of information on victims of the Holocaust.

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Holocaust Museum teams with Ancestry.com to build largest online archive on victims of Nazis

Anti-Semitic incidents worldwide dropped sharply in 2010 from their peak in 2009, according to an annual report issued by an Israeli university on the eve of the nation’s Holocaust Memorial Day.

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A mother and daughter tell their amazing tale of Holocaust survival

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Born in death camp

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is hoping to use social media and web technology to trace more than a thousand children who survived World War II, but became separated from their families in its aftermath.

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VIDEO: Social media to trace WWII children

Czech author Arnost Lustig, a survivor of the Holocaust who later wrote about it in his fiction, dies in Prague at the age of 84.

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Czech author Arnost Lustig, a survivor of the Holocaust who later wrote about it in his fiction, dies in Prague at the age of 84.

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The Israeli Holocaust archive at Yad Vashem has been working with Google to make its information easier to find in search engines.

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Israeli Archive and Google Team Up to Put Holocaust Stories at Fingertips

H. G. Adler, a death-camp survivor who pioneered Holocaust studies, wrote the first draft of this thinly disguised bildungsroman in 1948.

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A Vanished World