An Annual Commemoration The United Nations has designated January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, as a time to remember the six ...
The Museum welcomes President Trump's new appointments to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Ariel Simon Abergel, DC Jonathan Burkan, NY Robert David Garson, FL Tila Falic, FL Barbara ...
From February 6 to February 16, 1936, Germany hosted the Winter Olympics at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps. Yielding to international Olympic leaders' insistence on "fair play," German ...
Pete grew up in Essen, a major industrial city on Germany’s Ruhr River. His father worked as a cattle hide dealer for an international trading company in nearby Mühlheim. His mother was a designer for ...
Alfred Münzer was born in 1941 to a Jewish family during Nazi Germany’s occupation of the Netherlands. Trying to keep the family safe, his parents arranged to ...
Ethiopian civilians face a dire risk of mass atrocities as the country’s civil war—now more than a year old—intensifies. The news of the withdrawal of Tigrayan rebel forces from the Afar and Amhara ...
Edna Friedberg, Ph.D., is a historian in the Museum’s William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education. Nazis seem to be everywhere these days. I don’t mean self-proclaimed neo-Nazis. I’m ...
Why was man created alone? Is it not true that the creator could have created the whole of humanity? But man was created alone to teach you that whoever kills one life kills the world entire, and ...
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide released a report in November 2021, “To Make Us Slowly Disappear”: The Chinese Government’s Assault on ...
WASHINGTON, DC - The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum unequivocally condemns any leader trying to advance a position by claiming Adolf Hitler was “right.” Adolf Hitler’s Germany plunged Europe ...
Delphin Rukumbuzi Ntanyoma is a PhD candidate at the Erasmus University Rotterdam/Institute of Social Studies. He is an author of Behind the Scenes of ‘Banyamulenge Military’: Momentum, Myth, and ...
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is outraged by Hamas’s unconscionable attack on Israel, killing hundreds, and targeting Israeli citizens for kidnapping, including a Holocaust survivor, ...