ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the contribution to Holocaust education made by two museums – Beth Shalom in England and the Holocaust Education and Memorial Centre of Toronto. Beth Shalom ('House of Peace'), the United Kingdom's first Holocaust museum and remembrance centre, opened in September 1995. It is located near the village of Laxton in Nottinghamshire, a rural backwater about 150 miles north of London. The museum is used mainly by groups of students from schools and universities and is also visited by synagogue and church groups. The Holocaust Education and Memorial Centre of Toronto was to be built on a large multi-site tract of land in the north of the city and an architect and conceptual designer were contracted to plan the space and the permanent exhibit. In the centre of the museum, opposite the display of artefacts, is a walled-off circular space – the Hall of Memories.
