WHERE LUXURY BLENDS WITH INFORMALITY . . . * * * . C ........... ■ •• ■ ,....„ ` LOU LACHTER The Nely Not just another hotel The Dan Eilat on Israel's Red Sea with 380 rooms all facing the sea, 7 places to dine and drink, 2 pools, health & beauty spa, shopping bazaar and Danyland for the children. Enjoy the ideal combination of the DAN EILAT and the famous KING DAVID I for as low as $103 per night or combine any of these hotels with the Per person in double room DAN TEL AVIV, DAN including breakfast CARMEL or DAN + 15% service charge ACCADIA. I A wonderful value when you combine two or more of these Per person in double room including breakfast + 15% service charge superb hotels: DAN PANORAMA, TEL AVIV, DAN PANORAMA, HAIFA, DAN PEARL, JERUSALEM and DAN CAESAREA. Effective March 1,1996-November 17,1996 standard grade rooms. Minimum 7 nights combination of 2 or more hotels. Rates not applicable during Jewish holidays and peak seasons. For information and reservations, please call your travel agent or Israel Hotel Representatives (212) 752-6120 or outside New York State Toll Free: 800-223-7773/4 or FAX: (212) 759-7495 scut. 961- tek NEXT TDVE YOU FLY ....CALL CADILLAC TRAVI1 WELL GET YOU THERE WITH OUR FIRST CLASS SERVICE ! coNvemotts• TRADE SHOWS • CONTESTS INCENTNE PROGRAMS AND VAIZES 358.5330 One exhibit features a concentration camp barracks. Six Million Tour Holocaust Museum LEWIS ERIC LACHTER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS M arking the third an- niversary of its opening in April 1993, the Unit- ed States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washing- ton, D.C., is still going strong. Thousands of people from around the world stream through the exhibits every day. Visitors through April 1996 reached over 6 million. What has changed at the emo- tion-laden museum since it opened? Not a lot. The original dramatic architecture and per- manent exhibits are still there to educate and move the hearts and minds of men, women and chil- dren. The museum's free public pro- grams calendar lists current con- certs, panel discussions, film and lectures and is available in the lob- by. There is still no admission charge to the museum if you get same-day tickets at the box office (100 Raoul Wallenberg Place). There is a fee for advance tickets. A display dedicated to Schindler's List was recently added to the permanent exhibition. A new temporary show will open on July 19 and run through the end of 1996. This exhibit will deal with the 1936 Olympic Games ill Germany and how the Nazis used the global games for propaganda purposes. Also ex- amined will be the general theme of anti-Semitism in Germany at the time and discrimination against Jewish athletes in the United States. If you have never been to the museum, here are some of the highlights. To begin, there is the carefully designed building itself. The ex- terior is made of red brick and limestone. The interior uses brick, glass, concrete and steel — all rough-hewn industrial materials. Both inside and outside the build- ing there is a sense of a Nazi-run concentration camp. The museum is not an easy place to visit, but it is an important one — "lest we for- get." The museum includes modern educational facilities, a massive archive, a large bookstore and a nice restaurant. A visit to the permanent ex- hibits starts with a ride in a large, crowded elevator to the fourth floor where visitors are greeted by a dis- play documenting the events in Germany from 1933-39, including Hitler's rise to power. There are no tour guides, but everything is well marked. When you have completed your tour of that floor, you walk down to the third. Here you continue the saga as it unfolds from 1940-44. The second floor completes the tale by covering the years from 1945 to the present. You will see vivid photographs, large and small, audio-visual dis- plays where survivors tell their stories, heart-rending artifacts from tiny shtetLs and major cities. You will see a pile of shoes — taken from hundreds of people. There is an actual barracks where prisoners "lived." Most moving is the 15-ton railcar that was used to transport the victims. You walk slowly into the railcar and spend only a few seconds inside — but it is enough. When you have completed your tour, you can go up to the fifth floor and visit the library, photo archive, oral history archive, film and video archive. There is also a registry of survivors that has 80,000 files. You might want to end your vis- it to the museum in the Hall of Re- membrance. The huge, 6,000-foot space is solemn, simple. It is de- signed to give a peaceful place to gaze at the eternal flame burning in the room and to think about the museum experience.