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Virginia Holocaust Museum

The Virginia Holocaust Museum is a public history museum located in , , United States. The museum is dedicated to depicting the Holocaust through the personal stories of its victims.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum
  • Address: 2000 East Cary Street, Richmond, VA 23223

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Libby Prison and Edgar Allan Poe Museum.

Archaeological site
Photo: Alexander Gardner (photographer), Public domain.
was a Confederate prison at , during the American Civil War. In 1862 it was designated to hold officer prisoners from the Union Army, taking in numbers from the nearby Seven Days Battles and other conflicts of the Union's Peninsular campaign to take Richmond and end the war only a year after it had begun.

Museum
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The Poe Museum or the , is a located in the neighborhood of , , , dedicated to American writer Edgar Allan Poe. is situated 460 feet north of Virginia Holocaust Museum.

Government building
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is a government building, which is situated 480 feet east of Virginia Holocaust Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shockoe Bottom and Shockoe Slip.

Neighborhood
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, historically known as Shockoe Valley, is an area in , just east of downtown, along the James River. Located between Shockoe Hill and , contains much of the land included in Colonel William Mayo's 1737 plan of Richmond, making it one of the city's oldest neighborhoods.

Neighborhood
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is a district in the downtown area of . The name "slip" referred to a narrow passageway leading from Main Street to where goods were loaded and unloaded from the former .

Neighborhood
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is a historic district of , . According to the Richmond Times Dispatch, the neighborhood "generally is bordered on the south by East Marshall Street and Jefferson Avenue, on the west by Mosby Street, on the north by O and Carrington…

Virginia Holocaust Museum

Latitude
37.53091° or 37° 31′ 51″ north
Longitude
-77.42596° or 77° 25′ 34″ west
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
Levels
3
Open location code
8794GHJF+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
way 225586238
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
7239213
Wiki­data ID
Q882998
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Ukrainian—“Virginia Holocaust Museum” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Virginia Holocaust Museum”
  • Esperanto: “Virginia Holokaŭsta Muzeo”
  • French: “Virginia Holocaust Museum”
  • German: “Virginia Holocaust Museum”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון השואה של וירג’יניה”
  • Lithuanian: “Virdžinijos holokausto muziejus”
  • Lithuanian: “Virginia Holocaust Museum”
  • Spanish: “Virginia Holocaust Museum”
  • Ukrainian: “Музей Голокосту Вірджинії”

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