"The new war galleries do an excellent job, but it is the devastatingly poignant Holocaust Gallery that truly impresses"

"The Holocaust Gallery is a tremendous achievement. Home movies and other archive footage offer an immediate connection to those who suffered. So much so that I recommend that you re-visit the first section of the gallery after you’ve finished your journey through the exhibition. The footage of ordinary Jewish families enjoying themselves before the war, little knowing the horrors to come, is devastatingly poignant – all the more so after viewing the displays that detail their subsequent terrible suffering.

The new galleries open to the public on October 20"

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