When Todd Ruderman and Jody Kipnis visited the Auschwitz concentration camp in 2018, they didn’t know it would lead them to build New England’s first Holocaust museum. But eight years later, the seed planted by that life-changing experience is bearing fruit. Holocaust Museum Boston, opening in late 2026, aims to bring a different approach to Holocaust education to visitors who step through its doors, bridging the tragedy of the past with the anxieties of the present to affect change. “You used to go to these museums and be like, ‘Wow, that was horrible. That happened in the past. It’ll never happen again,’” Ruderman said. “What we’re saying is not only can it happen again, it will happen again if we don’t change and do something differently.”
Meet the duo behind Boston’s new Holocaust Museum. They want it to be unlike any other
