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<\/p>\nST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg is opening its doors to the community by offering free admission to all visitors from Friday, June 26th through Sunday, June 28th.<\/p>\n
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What they’re saying:<\/p>\n
The free admission days are specifically designed as accessible community counterprogramming, taking place during the same weekend as Ye’s sold-out concerts across the bay at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Museum leadership emphasizes that opening their doors for free is about offering a meaningful alternative and making vital history accessible to everyone during a high-profile weekend.<\/p>\n
“At the Florida Holocaust Museum, we felt the best response to the Kanye West concerts was to offer free days, June 26th, 27th, and 28th to give people an alternative. Counter-programming that’s accessible to everybody,” said Eric Stillman,\u00a0President and CEO of the Florida Holocaust Museum.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dig deeper:<\/p>\n
By removing the cost of entry, museum leadership hopes the open doors will encourage the community to engage deeply with history and confront rising antisemitism at a time when these conversations cannot be ignored. Stillman warned that harmful rhetoric and tropes carry dangerous, real-world consequences.<\/p>\n
“People are looking to blame somebody when they’re unhappy, they feel like there’s something wrong in life, they want to find somebody to be at fault. And unfortunately, it’s a really sick and insidious thing to use anti-semitic words, anti-semitic memes or tropes, because it feeds anti-semitic violence,” Stillman said.<\/p>\n
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Ultimately, the museum’s educational mission is to use individual stories to help the public understand the massive scale of past atrocities on a human level, guiding visitors to see why remembering this history matters today.<\/p>\n
“We really hope people feel that we’re in an accessible place that they can come, check it out, learn about the real lessons of the Holocaust, and come away hopefully having a better understanding of why every single human being has worth and value and why we have to all work together to prevent future genocides and atrocities,” Stillman concluded<\/p>\n
The Source: This article was written using information gathered during live interviews at the Florida Holocaust Museum.<\/p>\n