USHMM Review

If you're a emotional person you're going to cry. Our history is truly awful, but it's a lesson that needs to be learned.

It's a very emotional experience, going through that museum and it's exhibits.

Very difficult, moving experience. Every person owes it to themselves to visit and learn more.

Very sobering experience, all Americans should experience this, especially those who have Jewish roots.

Amazing, so much information about the whole Holocaust, and you'll leave with such remembrance.

Can be crowded but is well worth it. Especially in today's political atmosphere. A must when visiting DC

Very somber place...plan to spend at least 4 hours here.

Yes this very important to all way remember what happen and should never happen to ANY ONE GROUP

One of the Best of Washington
Should see and feel.

Interesting site. Widely illustrates what happened in the holocaust

If you only have time for one museum in DC, this should be it

Words can not Express my feelings.... very emotional thing to take in.....

I'm a reader and I spent all day here. Staff was friendly.

Absolutely everyone should experience this museum which forces us to ask ourselves some very uncomfortable but nevertheless important questions about a terrible chapter in history

If you aren't moved while you are here you better check for a pulse. I was in tears. To think humans could treat others like this is unfathomable. What a fantastic learning experience.

You must see this place above everything else in D.C..

Very humbling experience. We cannot forget the fallen and the oppressors who took their lives.

Visiting this museum was one of the most moving experiences of my life. I will never forget the progressive silence as we went through the installations. Everyone should experience this museum.

Very thorough museum and the architecture is very cool--quasi industrial appearance.

Remind everyone the danger of racism. It will make you care about human life and no man should decide fate of anyone.

Without any ambiguity, this is one of the most impressive, emotionally moving and impressive museums I have ever visited!

We had the opportunity to see Daniel's Story, a real life story, apart from observing the recreation of his house.

very powerful exhibit. In order to get tickets, you need to either: (1) get online at 6a the day of ($1 charge per ticket) or (2) get in line by 10a. We went around 2p the first time and they were already sold out - plan your visit way ahead of time.

Very humbling and moving experience. We got tickets for the permanent exhibit, but it was almost too much information to process while trying to keep moving in the line. The Daniel's Story exhibit (part of the free admission) was the best part, especially since our kids ages 12 and 8 were with us. It takes you through the life of a Jewish child from pre invasion through his life. Very interesting and also emotional.

This was an incredibly heartbreaking visit. Very well done! We should never forgot the question of how did this happen?!?! And beware to never let this kind of atrocity happen again!

Glad to see real stories of the nightmare that was going on there as also done in other lands.

A place to mourn those lives lost. History lesson to all. Never allow this to happen again.

Make sure you buy your tickets in advance and for early in the day you can. What a powerful experience.

Incredible experience. Humbling. Had the greatest guide, and I got the card of his grandfather. Visited with my fiancee, who is French, and she was impressed.

This Holocaust Museum does a great job of preserving this atrocious part of history. Even better it does a fantastic job of explaining Americas role, culture and thoughts during the times of ww2 and specifically during the Holocaust. ive been to a few Holocaust Museums around the world and this one does a great job of educating the visitor from Americas perspective.

Amazing museum showing elements of the Holocaust in an extremely impactful way. You start by taking a biography and then going up an elevator. From there the museum walks through the chronology of this horrific event in a way that will be hard to forget. Very well done.

A lot has allready been said about the quality of this museum. I won't repeat it, but would like to draw the attention to one aspect of the museum: the lay-out is so, that you have to make an effort to see the really disturbing pictures and movies. So you can bring your kids, explain what happened, but if they are still young, you don't have to confront them with the worst visuals.

It is a very beautiful place and it makes you reflect a lot on the evil of man and love of neighbor!

My experience at this museum was profound. I was apprehensive about going, as I tend to be squeamish albeit interested in learning the lessons of the Holocaust. I have zero regrets of going, despite viewing graphic accounts of the horrors that happened. It's important for me to see this and be aware. The permanent exhibit is of very high quality and is impactful in the way it viscerally conveys more of what it would have been like to experience the cruelty of the Nazis, and the clear message it sends about the many opportunities to help that several countries balked at - contributing to the subsequent 'Final Solution.' It completely changed my view of the Holocaust and humanity in general. I would say for everyone it's a must-see.

Goose bumps, tears and an empty feeling inside. I haven't been to Germany, this museum took me back in time. Highly recommended in in DC

So historic and very humbling. I think young children under 12 should not go to this. It's a lot to take in and upsetting to think this went on. Very tragic and graphic.

Lest we forget. There is no argument for racism of any kind

I really appreciate it and I think they did an outstanding job with the memorial

I had to travel all the way to USA (from India) to realize how easy it is to divide people. How false propaganda turns people into monsters in the name of psuedo nationalism. To realize how unfortunate my people back home are to still have the seeds of division still deeply rooted. How sad it is to see a society divided on religious and communal lines.

It's important to remember the past so that we may not repeat the mistakes.
This is the aim of this memorial is to tell aloud the atrocities that were mete to these people. The people who perished (millions died), and the ones who were damaged beyond repair. This is a reminder of the time men like you and me turned against his own brethren. Reminder of a man who in the name of taking the country forward pushed the world back to a primitive time, when barbarism was common, and cruelty was the way of life.

We want a better society, but at what cost?
I see xenophobic leaders gaining popularity around the world, and it fills my heart with despair.

A note on permanent exhibition.
The museum has 2 parts - the permanent exhibition, and rest of the museum.
The former requires tickets.
The tickets are limited and get over soon.
You can either book in advance or can get same day tickets.
For same day tickets you'll either have to visit their website at 6 in the morning, or be at the museum at 9.45 am.
For booking online, their website redirects to a third party website. I started trying to book right at 6, but the website started showing tickets as available more towards 6.10.
The tickets if collected at the museum are free, if booking online, you'll have to pay 1$ per head.
There are certain people who are exempt from needing to buy tickets - veterans, etc.

Also, when in permanent exhibit keep in mind that it spans across 3 floors, I did the mistake that I spent most of the time on the first level itself, and didn't get time for other levels, as museum's closing time approached. There's a lot of stuff to read, so it's easy to lose track of time.
In the very first level, there is a 14 minute video shown, which I liked. You may want to see that.

Hope your heart feels something when you leave this place, and you move, even if only the slightest bit, away from the notions that divide people.

One of the hardest place to visit, but so worth it! It is unfortunate how much hatred there was and still in the world!

Very impressive. Lots of excellent boards with explanations of the story from the rise of the Nazis to sick people experiments to the end. If you want to look at everything thoroughly, you should plan 3 to 4 hours.

Very eye opening. So sad to really see how people can treat each other. So well done and well worth the time to visit. Just be sure you get there early so you have plenty of time to truly see and read all the exhabits!

I have studied the Holocaust for many years in books and television but to stand on the original cobblestones and to see all those shoes and pictures made it so much more real and more horrible than a person can imagine.

Love the museum! Hate having to buy a ticket on line to get in. Because if you aren't aware of the role you can be left out of visiting one of the pinnacles of our modern voices against terrany because you didn't give them $1. (Please rethink this horrible policy!)

Not for the faint of heart, but definitely an experience to remember.

Very interesting museum. It is well organized, and it is very well presented in a correct chronological way.

Very important and moving experience. You're supposed to start on the going floor and work your way down. But it's very crowded on the 4th floor. If you're uncomfortable with crowds, it might work if you start on another floor.

Oh....It is good for us to remember the evil humanity is capable of so that we can be on guard against it happening again.

Worth the visit - you will need at least three hours to make it through. *Little kids will not get this place and probably cry after an hour.) Great experience, but like the movie "Schindelr's List" you may come out feeling a bit cold and sad.

Place with a lot of history and awareness messages about what happened to millions of Jewish and non-Jewish people because of their race.

Awesome to see everything that happened with Hitler in power. I highly recommend it. It has no cost

Everyone ought to see it so we can will be aware and it won't happen again.

This was a very moving and educational exhibit. Plan for 2 plus hours here!

Very good, but very sad to see the atrocities to which the Jews were subjected.

Great exhibits and an emotional rollarcoaster, very good!

Could do with better signage, queue management and kinder security. The exhibitions however were powerful and eye opening.

Just so Palpable...
Very emotional so much history there loved the architecture of the museum itself.

Great museum, every American should see it. I felt physically ill going through

Very moving but not enough room to breathe during the exhibit.

Touching stories and exhibits. Definitely a must-see in DC. Free to enter, just make sure you get there early before it fills up (even on weekdays)

Very educational, learned a lot about this tragedy

Beautiful place with an amazing experience and perfect information.

This place has been on my bucket list since I first learned about the Holocaust in elementary school. It was the first stop on my museum trek.
The museum was very respectfully, and tastefully done.
Sad and informative, of course, but truly a beautifully curated memorial.

Plenty of material for everyone to learn more about this tragedy.

Enlightening and so sad to see that humans can get so cruel.