. . . Learned of the Horrors of the Holocaust
Sunday, April 18, 2004; Page C02
. . . learned of the horrors of genocide on Holocaust Memorial Day. Sunday begins the week-long national Days of Remembrance at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The three-floor main exhibition, survivor registry and histories, memorial areas and special exhibits -- including "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race," which opens Thursday -- are part of the museum's research and education mission mandated by Congress.
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The Holocaust Memorial Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily, with extended hours Tuesdays and Thursdays until June 17. Timed passes are required to visit the permanent exhibit. The museum, which is on 14th Street SW next to the U.S. Mint, is accessible from the Smithsonian Metro stop on the Orange and Blue lines. More information is available online at www.ushmm.org.
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The "Tower of Faces" exhibit features a three-story column with prewar photos from Eisiskes, a village in present-day Lithuania that had a vibrant Jewish life for 900 years. It was ended by the SS with a massacre Sept. 25-26, 1941.
(U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
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