MUSEUM & CULTURE
The Florida Holocaust Museum
Pinellas County · Gulf Coast
One of the larger Holocaust museums in the United States, founded by a survivor and built around an original boxcar from Poland.
ABOUT THIS PLACE
Walter Loebenberg escaped Nazi Germany as a boy, served in the United States Army, and founded this museum with his wife Edie in 1992 along with community leaders in St. Petersburg. It opened in its downtown building in 1998 with an Anne Frank exhibition that drew 24,000 people. The object the museum was built around is a railway boxcar brought from Poland, the kind used to carry more than a hundred people at a time to the camps. Visitors walk through it. The permanent exhibition covers the history of the Holocaust with documents, photographs and objects, and the museum has always put survivor testimony at the center of its teaching, which becomes more difficult every year as the survivors die. It is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The building stands at 55 Fifth Street South, a short walk from the waterfront museums, and opens daily from ten in the morning to five. Allow two hours and expect the visit to be a demanding one
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