Elie Wiesel, the Museum’s founding chairman, was deported to Auschwitz with his family in May 1944. He was selected for ...

For years, they could not speak about the Holocaust. Teenagers Ruth Cohen, Steven Fenves, and Irene Weiss were deported in ...

Croom, Emily Anne. Unpuzzling Your Past: A Basic Guide to Genealogy. White Hall, Va.: Betterway Publishers, 1983. Doane, Gilbert H. and James B. Bell. Searching for ...

This three-minute video explains Holocaust denial and the different forms it takes. Transcript Holocaust denial is a form of antisemitism. The only reason to deny the Holocaust is to inculcate and ...

With the passing of Pope John Paul II, the world has lost a moral leader fervently committed to fighting the prejudice and hatred that led to the Holocaust. Karol Jozef Wojtyla was born and raised in ...

This video provides an overview of the Holocaust, Days of Remembrance, and why we as a nation remember this history. Transcript Estelle Laughlin, Holocaust Survivor: Memory is what shapes us. Memory ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum deeply mourns the passing of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate, and international leader of the Holocaust remembrance movement. In the ...

Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story is the Museum’s primary exhibition program for young people and their families. The exhibition tells the story of one family’s experiences during the Holocaust ...

This educational module aims to help students think more deeply about what it means to be an outsider. Using material from the Museum’s Voices on Antisemitism, the module: Illustrates the existence ...

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 ...

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 ...

This exhibition encourages us to think about what propaganda is, how it works, and how to respond to its intended use: to divide people and promote violence. From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried ...