Travelogue: Holocaust Museum LA

The underground museum across from the Grove is worth a visit

Living in Southern California offers ample opportunity to visit and tour interesting places. I’ve toured Disneyland, hiked in Griffith Park and danced at the top of LA’s tallest skyscraper. I want to write about vital, enriching experiences that are perhaps not as well known. One of them is LA’s Holocaust Museum.

It’s a structure cast in steel and concrete in an area of Los Angeles near the La Brea Tar Pits. The underground bunker-like museum is across from Rick Caruso’s merchant village, the Grove, near Farmer’s Market. This area is part of LA’s history in geographical oil discovery, drilling, refinery and wealth. Here, at America’s oldest holocaust museum, one can also learn about mass death caused by a civilized nation.

Holocaust Museum LA is the first holocaust survivor-founded museum in the United States. LA survivors met while taking English classes at Hollywood High School in 1961. They soon discovered that each student possessed an artifact, photograph or remembrances and wanted…