Holocaust Museum & Learning Center

This museum gives you all types of emotions. I really wished we had a museum like this in Cali!
I enjoyed how engaging the museum was, from the words depicting their own story to the staff who had stories of their own through their family. It was an eye opening visit that taught me a lot. The saying goes, «you learn something new everyday», I felt this was true for me.
These are the type of museums children should go to on field trips, an outer classroom experience!
On top of all of that… It’s FREE!

It’s very revealing and hard to see. I mean that in the best possible sense. These people payed such a price. It’s humbling to see what they endured. I’m acquainted with a survivor of the Auschwich Death camp. That association taught me quite a lot about the human spirit and overcoming. Thank you Joe Kupfer.

I’m so glad I got the opportunity to visit this museum while visiting STL. It’s a small museum but contained such powerful images. Many were donated by local residents who had family members that experienced the Holocaust. The museum was free of charge and so were self guided head phones — however, donations were welcomed. Everyone who worked there was very nice and always available for any questions you might have.

What a humbling experience. This is a very nice museum. I highly recommend this museum as a list of places you must see when you are in St. Louis.

My experience here was life-​altering.
Before going to the Holocaust Museum today, I kind of felt like I already knew about the Holocaust. I kind of hate hearing about it because I find it depressing and, to be honest, boring. When I was a kid, it seemed like almost every book we read in school was about the Holocaust.
I am so grateful that the opportunity presented itself to me to go to this museum, which is more than just a museum. It is a community almost.
First of all, the museum itself is extremely well done. The photographs are one-​of-​a-​kind, and are accompanied by interesting and eloquent text that is accessible to people of all education levels. It definitely presented the Holocaust to me in a way that had never been done before. There was information here that I had never even heard before about the Holocaust, especially in terms of homosexuality and race during the Holocaust. There was a replica of one of the pre-​concentration camp ghettos.
Additionally, there is a self-​guided audio tour narrated by a local newscaster which allows you to get even more information, but in a different medium. A docent led our tour, and he was magnificent. He answered all of our questions and told amazing stories. I was engrossed in every word he said.
The museum is open every day but Saturday. The staff was so passionate and gracious and will cater to any group that comes in. Additionally, we were told that they have scholarships available and can secure bus funding for schools that want to take field trips and cannot afford a bus there for field trips.
Had I just experienced the museum, I would have been impressed, but not changed. The part that got through to my core was actually meeting a Holocaust survivor here and hearing him speak. He gave the most amazing speech and shared one of the most earth-​shattering stories I have ever heard in my entire life. I was so honored to hear him share his story. It is a memory that I hope to pass on to future generations who will, unfortunately, not get to meet survivors or hear their powerful first-​hand accounts.
I am endlessly grateful for today’s experience, and I will return many times to the Holocaust Museum. St. Louisans, this is a MUST SEE.

One of the great things about St. Louis is the amount of museums that are here. The range is also just a many. From art to transportation, the museums here are terrific. One of the museums that are among the most important I feel is the St. Louis Holocaust Museum.
The St. Louis Holocaust Museum located just right off of Lindbergh, allows you to learn about the Holocaust from first hand accounts taken from the testimonials of survivors. The exhibits that are housed at the museum are moving with the history that each tell.
The St. Louis Holocaust Museum also has traveling exhibits that come through that are just as important. At the moment now, until mid May, they are hosting the exhibit that is about the Bosnian genocide that includes a documentary film with interviews of survivors who live here in St. Louis.
The St. Louis Holocaust Museum is a museum that everyone should go to at least once to see and have a better understanding of one of the largest atrocities that shaped modern history.