![]() Deborah Walfrid relates that her grandparents “were executed in Poland, after their heads were shaved, numbers were tattooed on their arms and they were used as slave labour”. Luísa Finkelstein recalls the members of her family “who were shot by firing squads after being forced to dig a mass grave". The Museum is run by members of the Jewish community of Oporto whose parents, grandparents and other relatives died in the Holocaust. TimeOut classified the Holocaust Museum as the best museum in the city of Oporto and in the first month it received around 10,000 visitors. The Museum is a partner of the government project “Nunca Esquecer - Programa Nacional em torno da Memória do Holocausto” (Never Forget Project – National Programme for Remembrance of the Holocaust), and aims to honour the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, of which Portugal is a member and share with society at large the documents and belongings left behind by the refugees in Oporto Synagogue during the Second World War. Visitors to the Museum will see a reproduction of the dorms of Auschwitz, a names room, a flame memorial, cinema, conference room, study centre, corridors with the complete narrative and, in the image of the Holocaust Washington Museum, photographs and screens showing films about the before, during and after the tragedy. The main themes treated at the new Museum are Jewish life before the Holocaust, Nazism, Nazi expansion in Europe, the ghettoes, refugees, concentration, labour and extermination camps, the Final Solution, the death marches, liberation, the postwar Jewish population, the foundation of the State of Israel, win or starve, the Righteous Among the Nations. ![]() ![]() The Museum focuses on the general public, particularly on the young, and invests in teaching, in career training for educators, promoting exhibitions and supporting research. The Holocaust Museum of Oporto was created in 2021 by the Jewish Community of Oporto (CIP/CJP) in partnership with B'nai B'rith International and Holocaust museums in Moscow, Hong Kong, the United States and Europe. This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. ![]()
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