The exhibit will be housed in the National World War II Museum in New Orleans until May 5, 2013.
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The World War II museum occupying sprawling grounds next to the Lavra.
At the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, about 20 bicyclists clustered around veteran and museum volunteer Tom Blakey.
At the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, about 20 bicyclists clustered around World War II veteran and museum volunteer Tom Blakey, a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division who jumped at Normandy on D-Day June 6, 1944 and in May 1945 helped liberate the work camp at Wobbelin in northwest Germany.
On Sunday night, the museum presented its highest honor to World War II veterans who helped end the Holocaust.
Edelman was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, "the largest, symbolically most important Jewish uprising" against the Nazis during World War II, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The Bomber Command Heritage charity had wanted to take over the entire site as a museum to remember the role played by RAF bomber crews during World War II.
As in Paris, the tunnels were used as bunkers and hideouts by soldiers during World War II, and a portion of the catacombs is open to the public via the Museum of Partisan Glory.
Above the factory floor, the semicircular gallery of the museum showcases the evolution of the Ducati motorcycle from the early days just after World War II, when the company introduced its first auxiliary bicycle engine (called the Cucciolo, or "puppy, " because of the distinctive barking sound it made), up through the company's first motorcycles in the 1950s and the road bikes and racing bikes that followed.
Nearly 1, 000 survivors and World War II vets joined with former President Bill Clinton and Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust activist Elie Wiesel to mark the museum's 20th anniversary.
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