Spread over 2 floors of the museum, i begins by contextualising the Jewish people's situation - their lack of a homeland, and their history of racial and religious persecution.

It goes on to describe in numbing detail the Nazi state's machinations in exterminating an entire race. Interestingly, there are only two mentions of Adolf Hitler - firstly in his rise to power, and secondly, right at the end, when the event of his suicide is noted. In between it focuses on the police, the laws, the propaganda and the prejudice which were the material enemy of the Jews.

The centerpiece is the heartbreaking, white-painted scale model of a section of the Aushwitz death camp. The scale of the model is monstrous, but closer inspection of the key shows that the endless series of gas chambers and crematoriums you are looking at was only a small part of the full camp, which stretched on and on, until the size and the statistics and everything else becomes meaningless. There are seats to sit on here, around the small but massive Aushwitz. There are many people sitting in the seats.

One room, tiled and glassy, depicts on its walls an org chart of the Nazi regime thoroughout Europe, an attempt at describing the oft-quoted "banality of evil". Indeed, it contains strata upon strata of bureaucracy, including sections of the rail system responsible for creating timetables for trains transporting Jews to the deathcamps in Eastern Europe, and charging for their tickets...

It's an important exhibition, one that everyone should go and see. It ends with a series of video interviews of survivors of the concentration camps. One woman questions whether we have learnt anything from history. She says no. We have not. She describes the illegal detention of prisoners, held without charge or trial in the Guantanamo Bay prison by the United States.