Beth Shalom (lit. "House of Peace") is a Holocaust memorial centre near Laxton in Nottinghamshire in England. Opened in 1995, it is England's only Holocaust museum.[1] The centre was founded by brothers James and Stephen Smith following a 1991 visit to Israel during which a trip to Yad Vashem changed the way they looked at history and the Holocaust.[2][3]
The museum seeks to educate primary school students about the Holocaust through their primary exhibit on children's experiences[4] funded in part by a lottery grant of nearly £500,000.[5] Prince Harry was educated about the Holocaust at the Centre following an incident when he wore a Nazi costume.[6]
On 21 July 2010 - almost twenty years after the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre was founded - James and Stephen Smith, and their mother Marina, were each awarded honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters (DLitt) by Nottingham Trent University[7]