Holocaust Museum of Oporto

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The Holocaust Museum of Oporto (Portuguese: Museu de Holocausto do Porto) is a Holocaust museum founded in 2021. The main themes treated at the new Museum are Jewish life before the Holocaust, Nazism, Nazi expansion in Europe, the ghettoes, refugees, concentration, labour and extermination camps, the Final Solution, the death marches, liberation, the postwar Jewish population, the foundation of the State of Israel, win or starve, the Righteous Among the Nations. Visitors to the Museum will see a reproduction of the dorms of Auschwitz, a names room, a flame memorial, cinema, conference room, study centre, corridors with the complete narrative and, in the image of the Holocaust Washington Museum, photographs and screens showing films about the before, during and after the tragedy.

TimeOut classified the Holocaust Museum as the best museum in the city of Oporto and in the first month it received around 10,000 visitors. The Museum is run by members of the Jewish community of Oporto. Luísa Finkelstein recalls the members of her family “who were shot by firing squads after being forced to dig a mass grave".

Deborah Walfrid relates that her grandparents “were executed in Poland, after their...