Holocaust museums debate what to say about Israel’s war on Gaza

Visitors making their way through the Tower of Faces at the United States Holocaust Memorial in Washington DC. Will the number of visitors fall as the war continues? — ©2024 The New York Times Company

AT a Holocaust museum in Atlanta, staff members had typically ended their tours by saying that many survivors of the death camps immigrated to the Palestinian territories.

But after the start of the Israel war on Gaza, the guides noticed that some students would ask a simple but complicated question: Is this the Gaza Strip that we’ve been hearing about?