MuseumEl Paso Holocaust Museum & Study Center
El Paso · El Paso County · Dedicated 1992 · THC Atlas #4200000134
Texas history, up close and curated.
About this site
El Paso Holocaust Museum & Study Center is a museum in El Paso, El Paso County, dedicated in 1992. It is one of 13 museums documented in El Paso County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 161 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.7623, -106.4920 near El Paso. The nearest cataloged historic site is B'Nai Zion Synagogue, Old (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include El Paso Museum of History, Singer Building, and El Paso County Historical Society Museum.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4200000134. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center is one of only about a dozen freestanding Holocaust museums in the United States and the only fully bilingual one. It traces its origins to 1984, when Holocaust survivor Henry Kellen began telling his story from a borrowed corner of the local Jewish Community Center; the museum was formally founded in 1994. After a devastating fire in 2001, funds were raised to rebuild, and the museum now occupies a purpose-designed building at 715 North Oregon in downtown El Paso's museum district, offering free admission and educational programming aimed at combating prejudice.
Sources: en.wikipedia.orgelpasoholocaustmuseum.orgtexastimetravel.com
