At The Liberation Pavilion in the US, visitors can learn the legacies of World War II

A recreation of bunks in a concentration camp is part of the new pavilion of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, the United States. — Photos: AP

A new, permanent addition to the sprawling National World War II Museum in New Orleans in Louisiana, the United States, is a three-storey complex with displays as daunting as a simulated Nazi concentration camp bunk room, and as inspiring as a violin pieced together from scrap wood by an American prisoner of war.

The Liberation Pavilion opened recently with ceremonies attended by surviving veterans of the war, Holocaust survivors, historians and actor Tom Hanks, a long-time supporter of the museum.