The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum presents visitors with a carefully designed, poignantly illustrated narrative of the most fatal genocide in human history. Its prominent location, alongside the Mall in Washington D.C, reflects its position as the official national recognition of and tribute to those who died in the Holocaust. Furthermore, its proximity to the nations leading commemorative monuments and political institutions conveys an implicit message that Holocaust has become enshrined as a part of the national memory forever, lending both a permanence and a prominence to memory of the Holocaust that would seek to defy any historical reinterpretation over the passage of time.