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Each day, school pupils, students and public visit the Centre.  Most visitors make The Journey as part of their visit.  The short film below shares this journey experience, as seen through the eyes of children, and introduces one vital aspect of the Centre.

The National Holocaust Centre and Museum promotes an understanding of the roots of discrimination and prejudice, and the development of ethical values, leading to a greater understanding within society. The Centre uses the history of genocide as a model of how society can break down, and emphasises how current and future generations must carefully examine and learn from these tragedies. The Centre promotes respect for human rights, equal opportunities and good citizenship, which has greater resonance than ever in our culturally diverse society.
The National Holocaust Centre provides a range of facilities for people of all backgrounds to explore the history and implications of the Holocaust. The vast majority of visitors will spend time in both the memorial garden and our two permanent exhibitions – The Holocaust Exhibition, suitable for secondary school children and adults and The Journey, a text free and tactile exhibition built with younger children in mind. Both exhibitions house artefacts from the period, and as an actively collecting museum, we are continuously developing and strengthening our collection. But what makes a visit particularly unique is meeting a survivor of the Holocaust and listening to their story. We are privileged to host survivors on a daily basis all of whom share their experiences with visitors and answer questions from young and old alike. 

A major challenge for the Centre is to ensure that future generations of visitors can still share this experience; our ambitious programme of interactive testimony through the creation of a ‘virtual’ survivor has been achieved through The Forever Project.

Published: 14th March, 2014

Updated: 24th July, 2019

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Laxton, Newark,
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