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 ...

Young twins sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau were sometimes spared immediate death for a gruesome fate: to become the subjects of medical experiments by Nazi doctor ...

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

Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Shots of Locations, Łódź ... Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection ... Claude Lanzmann spent twelve years locating and interviewing survivors, perpetrators, eyewitnesses .

Learn more about religious leaders, institutions, and communities in German-occupied, neutral, and Axis countries during World War II and the Holocaust. The Holocaust-Era Archives of Pope Pius XII: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is outraged at the horrific antisemitic terrorist attack outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., that claimed the lives of two ...

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 ...

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 ...

“When we live somewhere, we have a connection with the place, with the people. This attachment is detached when people are forced to move. Their sense of security is diminished. If someone is forced ...