Speaking Up! Confronting Hate Speech

Speaking Up! Confronting Hate Speech underscores the power of words to lead to discrimination, persecution, and mass violence. Identity-based violence like genocide is rarely—if ever—a spontaneous event. This exhibition provides historical and current examples of the connection between words and mass atrocities, while empowering visitors with strategies to counter hate speech in their own communities. Rooted in the Museum’s crucial mission to fight antisemitism, this exhibition highlights the relationship between hatred of Jews and identity-based discrimination in many forms.

On View

September 18, 2024 – June 29, 2025

The Children’s Tree: A Living Artifact from Theresienstadt

A tree planted outside the Museum, with roots born of the Holocaust, branches out to a better future. Discover the remarkable story of The Children's Tree, a living artifact from Theresienstadt concentration camp that represents hope and resilience. The silver maple tree is named in memory of a group of students from the camp and their teacher, Irma Lauscher, who planted the tree together and nurtured it with their own water rations, as well as the children of today and tomorrow who will visit the tree and learn its history.

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Gerda III at the Mystic Seaport in Connecticut

Built in 1928 for the Danish Lighthouse and Buoy Service, the Gerda III was a fishing boat that was used by the Danish Resistance to to save Jewish lives during World War II by taking Jews and others across the sound to Sweden. Gerda III was donated to the Museum by an act of Danish Parliament and is now part of the Museum’s Collection on view at the Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. Discover its incredible history at the Museum of Jewish Heritage and in Mystic.

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See what’s on view now

Explore the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s current exhibitions on view at the Museum, here in Battery Park, NYC. Our exhibitions offer visitors a dynamic and immersive experience of Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust

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