David Wiener was born on May 30, 1926, in Łódź, Poland, to Moshe Chaim and Hannah Sura Wiener. In the fall of 1939, Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Poland and began persecuting and murdering Jewish ...

As of 2024, more than 5 billion people—over half of the world’s population—use social media. The immense popularity of these digital networks means that social media is the way that many, if not most ...

The Museum offers a wide selection of online resources about the Holocaust and other genocides and mass atrocities. These tools provide a variety of ways to learn and teach about this important ...

In 2007, an album of photographs showing how the Nazis at Auschwitz spent their leisure time came into the Museum’s collection. Learn more about these rare photographs, delve deeper into Holocaust ...

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 ...

This 1,100-square-foot traveling exhibition is based on the exhibition that opened in 2018 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The Americans and the Holocaust traveling ...

Halina Litman Yasharoff Peabody was born Halina Litman on December 12, 1932 to a liberal Jewish family in Kraków, Poland. Her father, Izaak Litman, was a dentist and her mother, Olga Schreiber, was a ...

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The children who walked through the doors of the medieval monastery in Germany had endured all manner of Nazi terror. One Jewish boy from Poland had survived more ...

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 ...