Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl SW, Washington, DC 20024, USA
Documentary museum on the Holocaust, with survivor testimony and a Nazi-era census machine.
This guide to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. starts with a punch-card tabulating machine on display, a Dehomag D-Eleven built by IBM's German subsidiary, and a scrap of card staff found wedged inside it after the machine arrived from Dresden in 1990. It traces how such machines sped up the German census of 1933 and the 1939 census that asked about ancestry under the new race laws. Look closely at the keypad in front of you: fourteen numbered keys, nothing more sinister than an adding machine.
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