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 ...

In these uncertain times, amid the dangerous surge in antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and Holocaust distortion, our community stands together to support the Museum's critical mission. Join us in ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum mourns the passing of Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who helped smuggle hundreds of Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust. As ...

The Curt C. and Else Silberman Faculty Seminar is designed to help faculty and advanced graduate students who are teaching, or preparing to teach, Holocaust or Holocaust-related courses in all ...