The US$19m Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust has opened in the US city.

The 14,000sq ft museum, designed by architect Hagy Belzberg, features nine galleries that attempt to tell the story of the Holocaust "as objectively as possible".

Interactive exhibits, such as the 18 displays in the combined Deportation & Extermination and Labour/Concentration/Death Camps room, depict the "breadth, depth and severity of the world the Nazis created".

Wall displays throughout the museum provide background to the history of the Holocaust. Images in The Rise of Nazism make up a pictorial timeline of the events from 1933 to 1938. Elsewhere, such as in World Response/Resistance/Rescue, highlight several of the rare but heroic efforts made by non-Jews to save Jewish lives.

Several exhibits depict the victimization of Catholics, Roma, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, political dissenters, and others targeted by the Nazis.

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is a beneficiary agency of The Jewish Federation of Los Angeles.