Small Words, Big Questions We live in a paradoxical moment for Holocaust memory. On the one hand, we encounter Holocaust ...

Today at the Museum, as at all federal buildings, our flags are flown at half staff. We do so each year in remembrance of the lives lost in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This year it is also in memory ...

Born into a Jewish family in German-occupied Amsterdam, Robert Teitel never got to know his parents. He never learned to play chess from his father, a master ...

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 ...

Voices on Antisemitism features a broad range of perspectives about antisemitism and hatred. This podcast featured dozens of guests over its ten-year run. Listen to selected episodes below or view the ...

In the aftermath of World War I, Germans struggled to understand their country’s uncertain future. Citizens faced poor economic conditions, skyrocketing unemployment, political instability, and ...

The Rubenstein Institute is currently limiting access to our Collection materials to items that may be serviced in the Shapell Center Reading Room. The Museum’s David M. Rubenstein National Institute ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is outraged by the desecration of the memorial site to the victims of the Jedwabne massacre and the violent disruption of the commemoration ...

WASHINGTON – Within days, two antisemitic terrorist attacks in the U.S. have cast in stark relief the outcome of the normalization of hatred of the Jewish people. On May 21, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The Museum is horrified by the desecration of our long-time, close partner the Mémorial de la Shoah, France’s national Holocaust memorial and educational institution, which was ...

Three decades after the end of the devastating 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), which included genocide and crimes against humanity, this multiethnic Balkan country is in the grips of an ...

The symposium inspires service academy cadets and midshipmen to draw upon lessons of the past to develop innovative means of preventing mass atrocities in the future. As future military officers ...