The Museum offers tours to students 4th grade and up. Reservations are required. The tour provides an overview of the history of the Holocaust by closely examining Holocaust era artifacts and museum exhibits.
Students come to the Museum to learn about the events that shaped European and World History between 1933 and 1945. Museum educators and docents stimulate conversations and provide tools for students to approach this sensitive subject and understand its continuing relevance. Visiting the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust informs students about history in the effort to inspire socially and civically responsible choices in their own lives.
What does an Elementary School tour cover?
For our youngest visitors, the Museum offers tours of select galleries. Please schedule at least 2 hours in the Museum. The tour includes the World That Was gallery, which features a large computer touch-screen photography table. During this tour, students will learn about life before the war, and how the Nazi racial laws impacted the life of Jewish citizens. Students will also be introduced to the concepts of Anti-Semitism, prejudice and persecution. The tour will also include a visit to the gallery on Rescue and Resistance. Students will then meet a Holocaust Survivor and listen to their testimony. We work with a number of Child Survivors. These are Holocaust Survivors who were children during the war. They all have extensive experience in working with elementary school children and their stories are very age appropriate.
What does a Middle School tour cover?
Middle School students participate in a Museum tour that focuses on the World That Was, The Rise of Nazism, Rescue & Resistance, and our special exhibition space. During the tour, students learn about how life changed with Hitler's rise to power. They also are introduced to the Nuremberg Laws and topics of emigration. Students then explore events related to Rescue and Resistance. Topics covered include Anti-Semitism, prejudice, persecution and civil rights. Following the tour, students meet a Holocaust survivor and listen to his/her personal testimony.
Please plan on being in the Museum for 2 to 3 hours.
What does a High School tour cover?
High School students receive a full tour of the Museum as well as an intensive discussion with a Holocaust Survivor. The tour covers the main historical events between 1933 and 1945. Students will learn about Ghettoization, deportation to the Concentration Camp, life in the camps, liberation and life after the Holocaust. Students will spend time learning about one concentration camp in detail as they explore the concentration camp gallery, which includes interactive exhibits. They will also learn about acts of resistance, specifically in the death camp of Sobibor. Holocaust Survivors who speak to High School students have a wide range of backgrounds. Some survived Auschwitz, the ghettos or joined the Resistance.
Please plan on being in the Museum for 2 to 3 hours.
What does a Home-schooled or Mixed-grade tour cover?
The same tours offered to public and private schools apply to homeschooled and mixed-grade groups. Please contact Ilaria Benzoni-Clark, Education Coordinator to plan a program that is appropriate to the ages and knowledge-level of your group.
Please plan on being in the Museum for 2 to 3 hours.