The VHM first opened in 1997, founded by Mark Fetter, Devorah Ben David, Jay Ipson, and Al Rosenbaum.

The VHM remains an important location for Virginia field trips, with students from over 100 middle and high schools visiting yearly.

300 artifacts and the testimonies of local Holocaust survivors expand upon this history, representing the tangible and personal realities of this event.

[2] Visitors have the opportunity to enter the artifact and imagine the conditions experienced by the people transported in this type of rail car.

The Nuremberg Courtroom exhibit gives visitors the chance to see a full recreation of Room 600 at the Palace of Justice, used during the International Military Tribunals, and to experience the gravity of the trials.