Indonesian Holocaust Museum — Attraction in North Sulawesi

Well this was a surprise!! A Jewish holocaust museum up in the hills about an hour north of Manado in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. And it's right next door to the only synagogue in all of Indonesia, or so I was told. Both buildings constructed beautifully from sandstone in the Jewish style. They look like they could be located in Jerusalem. Of course, as with every holocaust museum, it is an extremely sobering place to visit, reminding us of what extreme nationalism can create through horrific cruelty to fellow humans. This is a real credit to the very special and unique, but small Jewish enclave of north Sulawesi. All the more surprising given Indonesia blocks the entry of those on...

I was deeply moved to visit this small museum, nestled in the most unlikely of places, in North Sulawesi province of the world's largest Muslim country. It's a one-room museum next to Indonesia's only currently active synagogue building. It contains some well written background information, in both Bahasa Indonesia and English, on the Holocaust, the Jewish people, and contains some real historical artifacts from that time, including a Swaztika flags, a German uniform, an infamous Yellow Star, some Jewish ritual items and prayer books. It's important to have genuine historical items to show that the Holocaust...

a religious museum of the jewish minority in tondano not many people know this place exist, there are numerous local that i talked to didn't even know that this place exist and of course some locals doesn't like the about the fact that this building exist here. i hope the owner would also expand the building because they didn't cover enough about the details of...