• Opening of “Matzevot for Everyday Use: Photographs by Łukasz Baksik”

    The Florida Holocaust Museum 55 5th Street S, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States

    The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present the North American premiere of Matzevot for Everyday Use by Łukasz Baksik. This exhibition features photographs taken in Poland by Polish photographer Łukasz Baksik to document the ways in which Jewish gravestones have been stolen and re-appropriated. The matzevot are now parts of fences, pavements, and grindstones. Even today, the 

  • Opening of “Courage and Compassion: The Legacy of the Bielski Brothers”

    The Florida Holocaust Museum 55 5th Street S, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States

    An original, award-winning FHM exhibition, Courage and Compassion: The Legacy of the Bielski Brothers chronicles the Bielski brothers’ story. This exhibition, presented nationally by Bank of America, is a multi-media presentation showcasing the heroic efforts of three brothers who helped save more than 1,200 people while living in the forest during World War II. Three brothers, 

  • Opening of “The Greatest Crime of the War: The Armenian Genocide During World War I”

    The Florida Holocaust Museum 55 5th Street S, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States

    The Greatest Crime of the War: The Armenian Genocide During World War I recounts the history of the genocide and the conditions which led to it as well as its legacy. The mass murder of the Armenian people in Anatolia, now referred to by most historians and human rights organizations as “The Armenian Genocide,” destroyed 

  • Opening of “Holocaust By Bullets”

    The Florida Holocaust Museum 55 5th Street S, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States

    Holocaust  By  Bullets  features  ten  years  of  field  investigations  in  the  former  Soviet  Union  by  Yahad – In  Unum. Yahad – In Unum, founded by French Catholic Priest Father Patrick Desbois, presents its painstaking research in a succinct yet approachable manner that enables the visitor to uncover, step‐by‐step, the crime committed against Jews and Roma by 

  • Opening of “Jehovah’s Witnesses: Faith Under Fire”

    The Florida Holocaust Museum 55 5th Street S, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States

    Jehovah's Witnesses: Faith Under Fire is an exhibition that focuses on Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Holocaust.  Jehovah’s Witnesses, a Christian community of 35,000 in Germany and occupied lands, refused to confirm to the Nazi ideology of hate. They suffered severely for their belief in nonviolence and their utter rejection of racism. Thrown into Nazi camps, they 

  • Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933‐1945 Exhibition Opening

    The Florida Holocaust Museum 55 5th Street S, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States

    On display at The Florida Holocaust Museum: April 30 - July 2, 2017 Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933–1945 examines the Nazi regime’s attempt to eradicate homosexuality, which left thousands dead and shattered the lives of many more. Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi German regime promoted racial health policies that sought to eliminate all sources of 

  • Exhibition Opening: The Holocaust and the Book of Fire by Murray Zimiles

    The Florida Holocaust Museum 55 5th Street S, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States

    On display September 2, 2017 – December 31, 2017 The paintings, drawings, prints, and artist's books by Murray Zimiles are graphic statements meant to engage and propel the viewer into a whirlwind of fire and devastation.  In these powerful works, Zimiles deals with issues like the absence of God during the Holocaust and the absence