On April 26, 1993, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum located in Washington, D.C., opened to the public. Inside one of the most saddest times in history is told. The Nazi government of Germany murdered six-million Jews throughout Europe. Non-Jews were killed as well! And there were 1.5 million children among about lets just say about 9 million people there.

While Adolf Hitler's strong armies conquered much of World War II, he and his advisors secretly engineered a plan to get rid of all the Jews. They called this plan the "Final Solution to the Jewish Problem."The big group of Nazis made concentration camps almost everywhere. And concentration camps were factories for gathering people together and then murdering them. Only Nazi Germany's defeat by Allies in 1945 ended the killing. Close to then, two out of every three Jews in Europe were dead. Whole family's perished. The whole population of villages vanished. A thousand years of Jewish culture was gone eternally. Nazis did not reserve their hatred only for Jews. Millions of others were considered enemies of Germany. Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, communist, people with physical or mental disabilities, and anyone who had tried to escape death were removed in Hitler's Final Solution.

In concentration camps, very few prisoners survived slave labor, brutal beatings, disease, terror, and starvation. In1941, a young Jew named Miles Lerman was imprisoned in a slave labor camp near Lvov, Poland. In the camp, Lerman witnessed the Nazi guards force a Jewish father to choose which of his two sons were to be hanged. The father closed his eyes and reached out to touch one of his two sons at random. He was then forced to hang that son. The father committed suicide the next morning. Miles Lerman escaped from the labor camp several months later. Haunted by what he had seen, he fought the German army alongside supporters of the Polish Government. Lerman helped raid Nazi food warehouses, steal or destroy Nazi fuel supplies, and shoot at Nazi patrols. When the war ended, he learned that his entire family had been killed in a concentration camp called Belzec. In 1980, president Jimmy Carter appointed Lerman to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. The council was asked to design and build a national memorial to victims of the Nazis.

To learn more about the Holocaust Memorial Museum visit this sites:
http://www.ushmm.org/