On floor minus 2 of the building is the Concentration and Extermination Camps exhibition; on floor minus 1 The "Yizkor" Hall, in the Entrance Floor The Jews of Holland During the Holocaust; on floor 1 Jewish Warsaw, A Story of the Human Spirit, The Warsaw Ghetto Fights Back, Home of Testimony and about Itzhak Katzenelson; and on floor 2 Facing the Glass Booth — The Trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. This exhibit includes the original booth in which Adolf Eichmann sat during his trial. It is also possible to go to the rooftop observatory from where there is a nice view of the surrounding area. 

 

Katzenelson (1886–1944) was a Jewish poet, teacher and dramatist who lived through the Holocaust in the Warsaw Ghetto. He became one of the great literary witnesses to the destruction of European Jewry. Katzenelson represents another dimension of resistance: cultural and spiritual resistance. He continued writing, teaching and creating in the Warsaw Ghetto. His famous Song of the Murdered Jewish People became one of the most important literary testimonies to the Holocaust. He was eventually deported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered.

 

Adjoining the main museum is the Yad Layeled Children’s Memorial Museum. This was established n 1995 to memorialize the 1.5 million Jewish children who perished during the Holocaust. Its aim is to acquaint young visitors with the world of children who lived during the Holocaust. It presents their lives through letters, drawings and stories. There is also an exhibit about Dr. Yanush Korczak (1878/79–1942). He was a Polish-Jewish pediatrician, educator, author, and a director of an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto. He devoted his life to children and developed remarkably progressive ideas about children's rights and dignity. When the Nazis ordered the deportation of the children from his orphanage to Treblinka in August 1942, Korczak refused the opportunity to save himself. Rather, he chose to accompany his children and was murdered with them at Treblinka.

 

Outside the museum, you will notice an Ottoman aqueduct that brought fresh water to Acre from a spring in the Upper Galilee. It was first built by Sulayman Pasha between 1812-1814 and was the main source of Acre’s drinking water up until 1948, and possibly until the 1950s. There were previous aqueducts in the Hasmonean period and then Roman and Byzantine periods, but not in this precise location. Similarly, an aqueduct constructed by Al-Jazzar in in the late 18th century.

 

Also note the large outside auditorium, where the official ceremony concluding Holocaust Memorial Day is conducted.