The children who walked through the doors of the medieval monastery in Germany had endured all manner of Nazi terror. One ...

WASHINGTON, DC – As our nation’s Holocaust memorial and educational institution and part of the United States Government delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), the ...

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In July 1995, as the civil war in Bosnia raged on, humanitarian-aid workers in the Bosnian Muslim town of Tuzla, in the northern part of the country, came to a startling realization. Dispatched to ...

Rachel (Rae) Mutterperl was born to Beryl and Dina on December 2, 1930, in Dokszyce, Poland (present day: Doksycy, Belarus). Dokszyce was three miles from the Soviet Union border with a population of ...

Each year, Campus Outreach Programs hosts two seminars at the Museum that offer North American faculty, lecturers, and advanced graduate students the opportunity to engage with our materials and learn ...

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 ...

Irene Weiss was born Perl Ruchel Fogel on November 21, 1930, in Bótrágy, Czechoslovakia (now Batrad’, Ukraine) to Meyer and Leah Fogel. Meyer owned a lumber yard, and Leah managed their home and cared ...

Holocaust survivor Ayana Touval was just a toddler when Nazi Germany and its allies invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941. Soon afterward, Nazi collaborators began persecuting Jews in Zagreb (which is now ...

This program is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. For more information, please contact the Museum’s Midwest Regional Office at 312.856.4592 or [email protected].

Explore this series of animated videos based on first-hand accounts from the Museum’s collection. Each video tells a personal story of a Holocaust victim, survivor, rescuer, or eyewitness using ...