The Museum of the Holocaust in Porto offers free visits until the end of June

The Museum of the Holocaust, which inaugurated in Porto last April, with circa 300 daily visitors, offers entrance free until the end of June. This is the first Holocaust Museum in the Iberian Peninsula and its target goal is to keep the memory of the victims of one of the darkest periods in Humankind’s latest history alive.

The first museum of its type in the Iberian Peninsula, and much like the Museum of the Holocaust in Washington DC, in the United States, seeks to tell the full story of pursuit, torture, and the killing of over six million people by Nazi Germany, by means of photographs and screens that display the events known as "Shoah" or "Final Solution".

In 2013, the Jewish community in Porto shared the archive referring to the refugees that were en route in Porto with the Washington DC Holocaust Museum; now, the archive came back to Porto and includes the official documents, testimony, letters and hundreds of individual files, as well as the Sifrei Torá left behind by the refugees in the synagogue of Porto during World War II.

It is worth highlighting that the museum aims to invest in teaching, educators’ professional training, as well as in the promotion of exhibitions and in research. The first of such initiatives is scheduled for 20th September, targeted at professors; it will be attended by holocaust survivors and representatives of similar museums in the world.

The “Museu do Holocausto” is located at the Rua do Campo Alegre, 790, in Porto. The museum opens doors between 2.30 pm and 5.30 pm, every working day.