The Zekelman Holocaust Center

01 / The story of this place

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Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzveig and a group of Holocaust survivors founded it as the Holocaust Memorial Center, which opened in West Bloomfield in October 1984 as the first free-standing institution of its kind in the country. Today it fills a 55,000-square-foot building in Farmington Hills with a 20,000-square-foot core exhibit, and it took the Zekelman name in January 2022 after $25 million in family gifts. Look for the WWII-era boxcar and the sapling from Anne Frank's tree, received in 2009.

1. Opened in 1984 as the nation's first free-standing Holocaust center
2. WWII-era boxcar in the core exhibit
3. Sapling from Anne Frank's tree, received in 2009
4. Survivor Talk Sundays
5. Public guided tours Sunday, Wednesday and Friday