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The Permanent Exhibit is personalized with the testimony of Houston-area survivors who lived through a genocidal war that inflicted mass death on unprecedented numbers of innocent civilians. The exhibit begins by carrying visitors back to pre-war Europe and revealing the flourishing Jewish life and culture there. Authentic film footage, artifacts, photographs and documents expose Nazi propaganda and the ever-tightening restrictions on Jews in the steady move toward the "Final Solution." Visitors learn of the horrific conditions within the Nazi-imposed ghettos, the special mobile killing units that murdered thousands and the industrialization of deaths at complexes like Treblinka, Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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The Museum's 1942 World War II railcar is of the same type as those used to carry millions of Jews to their deaths. The railcar was formally dedicated and opened to the public during 10th Anniversary ceremonies at Holocaust Museum Houston on Sunday, March 5, 2006.
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No city, town or village was too small to escape the diabolical schemes
of the Nazis to annihilate the Jewish people and the whole
infrastructure that had supported them. Six million Jews perished, but
20,000 Jewish communities also were destroyed. Holocaust Museum
Houston's Destroyed Communities slope serves as a permanent memorial to
those Jewish communities that were obliterated during the Holocaust,
with more than 340 communities remembered on the memorial.
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Holocaust Museum Houston's Permanent Exhibition includes a rare Holocaust-era artifact that tells the heroic story of a three-week period in 1943 when Christians in Denmark risked their own lives to save more than 7,200 Jews from almost certain execution at the hands of Nazi Germany.
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