The millions of Jews who were taken from their places of residence, ghettos or transit camps did not in any way know that they were being brought to extermination camps nor did they know what fate awaited for them. Most of them had not even heard of the existence of such camps. Rumors about death camps did, it is true, reach Warsaw and other ghettos in Poland, but the public for the most part did …showed first 75 words of 716 total…

…showed last 75 words of 716 total…of these pictures were too gruesome to be published. Altogether 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. On April 22, 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated to the 6 million Jewish casualties. The Museum is a five (5) story building which includes; a 20,000 volume library of the Holocaust archives; a 414 seat auditorium; a 176 seat movie theater; and a children’s remembrance wall. The Holocaust was such a tragic event in history. It will never be forgotten!