Dallas Holocaust Museum

The Dallas Holocaust Museum and Center for Education and Tolerance is a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing prejudice and indifference through education. The museum's mission is remembrance, education, and hope.

In March 2005, the museum completed a temporary relocation from the basement of the Jewish Community Center to the center of the downtown Dallas area and adjacent to Dealey Plaza and the Sixth Floor Museum. This location will serve as a transitional site while the necessary funds are raised to build a permanent museum. Construction of a new facility at Houston and Pacific streets, across the street from the Sixth Floor Museum, is still a few years away.

For now, its Record Street location, which borders downtown's historic West End district, may be small but it is quite effective. An audio tour takes visitors through the horrors of the Holocaust from 1933 to 1945 and beyond. Photographs, a video display inside a real boxcar and yellow Star of David patches and other personal items are on display. Artifacts from the death camps include many from survivors who made their way to Dallas after the war. Part of the audio tour is about Mike Jacobs, a longtime supporter of the museum, who arrived in Dallas in 1951. He chose to emigrate to Texas after hearing it described as "the largest state in America."

Admission to the museum includes an audio guide that is available in English and Spanish. The exhibits are not recommended for children below sixth grade level. Parental discretion is advised.