Americans served in World War II 36 Army units have been recognized as having liberated Nazi concentration camps ...

Holocaust survivor Ernie Brod was born in 1938, the same year Nazi Germany annexed Austria. After unleashing a wave of restrictive laws, arrests, and violence ...

Learn about the Holocaust survivors who volunteer at the Museum or request to hear a survivor share his or her experiences in person.

The Museum is free and open every day. It is closed on Yom Kippur and Christmas Day. The Museum building is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. All exhibitions and the Museum shop close at 5:20 p.m. The ...

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies announces the call for applications for the 2025 Curt C. and Else Silberman Faculty Seminar on Jewish Experiences Under Nazi ...

The 2025 Annual Faculty Seminar on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust will explore the role and responses of Christian communities in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust and its aftermath ...

What can we learn by examining the experiences of refugees who traveled in and beyond Europe during the Holocaust? How did one become a refugee? And what were some of their routes, places of transit, ...

Two antisemitic terrorist attacks in the U.S. in just 11 days is the outcome of the normalization of hatred of the Jewish people.

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum strongly condemns Russia’s outrageous attack on Ukraine and is deeply concerned about threats to civilians and loss of life. In justifying ...

Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the risk of mass atrocities has increased for vulnerable groups, including ethnic and religious minorities. Afghanistan currently ranks ...

We are Holocaust survivors who volunteer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, sharing our experiences with the public. We are always gratified to see how much interest there is from young ...