Americans served in World War II 36 Army units have been recognized as having liberated Nazi concentration camps ...

Learn about the Holocaust survivors who volunteer at the Museum or request to hear a survivor share his or her experiences in person.

Germany skillfully promoted the Olympics with colorful posters and magazine spreads. Athletic imagery drew a link between Nazi Germany and ancient Greece. These portrayals symbolized the Nazi racial ...

The Museum is free and open every day. It is closed on Yom Kippur and Christmas Day. The Museum building is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. All exhibitions and the Museum shop close at 5:20 p.m. The ...

The 2025 Annual Faculty Seminar on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust will explore the role and responses of Christian communities in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust and its aftermath ...

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies announces the call for applications for the 2025 Curt C. and Else Silberman Faculty Seminar on Jewish Experiences Under Nazi ...

India ranks second in this year's Early Warning Project Statistical Risk Assessment, marking its highest risk and rank to date. For the last five years, India has ranked in the top 15 highest-risk ...

Why should we talk about women’s experiences of genocide? Genocide is defined as the commission of a prohibited act with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or ...

This contribution by Sareta Ashraph is part of a blog post series to coincide with the launch of our Handbook: "Pursuing Justice for Mass Atrocities: A Handbook for Victim Groups." In April 1977, ...

A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity. Its ...

Pakistan, Yemen, and Burma/Myanmar top the list of countries at risk for new mass killing in 2022 or 2023, according to the Early Warning Project’s latest annual Statistical Risk Assessment. The new ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of State Blinken’s formal recognition that the Burmese military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya is critically important to the victims ...