Despite missing some points, without a working audio guide (that was free), I still appreciated a great deal of the arts and photography surrounding men and women from Paris before and during the Holocaust. There was an interesting display of the cultural diversity: Sephardic/Iberian, Austrian-Hungarian or Ashkenazi Polish, Dutch, German and Moroccan exiles. There wasn’t much or anything about the Harbin and Shanghai Jews in China. I enjoyed the women and Moroccan or Algerian Jewish jewellery relating to women’s culture on the top floor; it was partly captured in a book on Moroccan Jews in the bookshop on the ground floor. I wish I had a couple more hours to view the entire museum. Since I couldn’t read French quickly, I missed some of the content about the Holocaust that I also caught at the Shoah Memorial—15 minutes walk in another part of the 4th arrondissement on the other side of the Centre Pompidou. However, the value for visiting this museum (on the Museum Pass) was unsurpassable. The “hotel” in which it’s located is the building from which Parisian or Ashkenazi Jews were deported in 1940-1944, which makes the history of the Shoah feel nearer and real. Tell the staff in advance if you’ll need to use the elevator instead of the stairs, leading upstairs to the museum artifacts.

This museum is an excellent way to learn about the Jews of France as well as other countries There are many wonderful relics and historical artifacts We also took the Jewish Tour of the Marais led by Stephanie Nadalo,PhD, That i would highly recommend The 2 hour tour was very informative about pre and post war Marais We visited,many sights of historical importance and the Shoah Stephanie was easy to understand and answered many questions Don’t leave the Marais without taking this tour

While it would have been helpful if more of the displays were also in English, overall this was a really great way to learn about various aspects of Jewish culture and history. We particularly liked the different sections covering the variety of Jewish groups within Europe. After visiting the museum, make sure you visit the remaining Jewish section of the Marais, by the "pletzel".