A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred and prevent genocide. Using more than 900 artifacts, seventy video monitors, and four theaters showing historic film footage and eyewitness testimonies, the USHMM’s permanent exhibition is the most visited at the museum.

Upon entering, visitors are given identification cards, each of which tells the story of a person such as a random victim or survivor of the Holocaust.

Elevators will take us to the fourth floor, where visitors walk through a chronological history of the Holocaust.

On the third floor, visitors learn about ghettos and the final solution – the Nazi’s plan for the genocide of the Jews of Europe.

The permanent exhibition ends on the second floor with the liberation of Nazi concentration camps by Allied forces; it includes a continuously looped film of Holocaust survivor testimony.

Molly Dallmeyer, Holocaust studies teacher at Dallastown High School, will join us on this OLLI bus trip. She will speak about the Holocaust on the bus and offer suggestions for what to look for in the museum.

You will need to bring your lunch, snacks, and drinks, which we will eat on the bus. No food or drink is permitted in the museum except for bottled water.

This is a three-sneaker tour with a substantial amount of walking, outdoor walking, historic tour pace, and not all areas accessible.

The bus will leave from the Penn State York campus at 8:30 a.m. so please arrive by 8:15 a.m. The bus will not wait for late arrivals.