Holocaust Museum Boston installs historic railcar on fourth-floor display

12-ton, Nazi-era railcar lifted by crane into new Holocaust Museum Boston

Traffic on Tremont Street slowed, passersby glanced up and a sea of cellphones pointed skyward on Tuesday morning when a crane lifted a historic railcar into the construction site of the new Holocaust Museum Boston — set to open in late 2026.

Boston Holocaust Museum installs historic early 20th-century railcar exhibit

Traffic stopped on Tremont Street in downtown Boston early Tuesday morning as a 12-ton historic railcar was lifted over a hundred feet into the city’s future Holocaust Museum, an artifact donated by the family of a survivor and personal reminder of the tragic chapter for Bostonians to look up at. “We don’t look at this rail car as just an artifact,” said Jody Kipnis, co-founder and CEO of Holocaust Museum Boston. “We look at it as a witness to h…

Holocaust Museum Boston installs historic railcar on fourth-floor display

"It took us so long to get to this moment, and I just didn't know what it would feel like, and once it was here, it was pretty emotional."

Thomas Peer Solutions tailors Wasabi for Melbourne Holocaust Museum

When the Melbourne Holocaust Museum needed a backup solution outside Microsoft, it wanted its IT service partner, Thomas Peer Solutions, to find a vendor that would have the type of solution that would appeal to the museum’s not-for-profit (NFP) status. The museum uses Microsoft Azure platform predominately. However, it didn’t want its backup solution to also be on the same platform, explained its finance and cyber security manager, Roy John. “W…