The Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida evolved from the creative efforts of teachers and students at Golden Gate Middle School as they studied the Holocaust. In addition to educating the public, the museum focuses of reaching the more that 40,000 middle and high school students in Lee and Collier counties.
Homer and Diana Helter, local collectors of World War II memoabilia, assisted the students by loaning them several Holocaust artifacts. Today, the Museum’s collection includes some 300 authentic artifats on permanent loan from Mr. Helter and a unique pictorial history beginning with the rise of Nazism and ending with Allied Liberation and the Nuremberg trials.
The Holocaust Museum is located at 4760 Tamiami Trail North, just south of Pine Ridge Road in Naples, Florida. It is open Tuesday through Friday and Sunday from 1-4 PM. They are closed Monday, Saturday, major holidays and the months of July and August. For more information, call 239-263-9200.
The City of Naples and Collier County will proclaim UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2007.
