The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, which works to ensure the permanent vitality of the field of scholarship;
The William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education, which is responsible for education in the US and abroad; confronting denial; and the training of leaders in the American military, law enforcement and judiciary; and
The Simon Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, which seeks to do for victims today what was not done for the Jews of Europe.
The Museum’s educational goals are based on stimulating critical thinking about not only how the Holocaust happened, but also why it happened, what made it possible.
We want visitors to ask – and keep on asking -themselves a range of questions: for example, what made Nazi ideology attractive? Why were the Nazis allowed to come to power in an advanced country? Why does someone murder innocent people, let alone children? Why did so few confront the Nazis? What made the rescuers take action?