After the devastation of the Holocaust, survivors collaboratively authored yizker bikher, memorial books, devoted to the lives and deaths of the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe. Over a thousand ...

The stories that haunt me are, when we went finally to Srebrenica, and saw these people. I mean, these civilians, who were part of Europe, where there was once the Olympic Games, living like animals, ...

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In 1938, on the eve of World War II, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote that "a piece of paper with a stamp on it" was "the difference between life and death." The Unwanted is the intimate ...

James Ingo Freed, the architect who designed the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, was born in Essen, Germany, in 1930. At the age of eight, he was evacuated from Europe with his younger sister ...

Born in Berlin in 1929, Peter Feigl moved with his parents to Prague and Brussels before they ended up in southern France in 1940. In 1942, Peter was at a Quaker summer camp when his parents were ...

Podcast Listen to Louise discuss memories of her early years in hiding Podcast Listen to Louise discuss her first days of freedom after spending over 2 years in hiding At six months old, Louise ...

Professor Peter Longerich received a Ph.D. in history and an M.A. in history and sociology from the University of Munich. During his fellowship at the Museum, he was Professor of Modern GermanDr ...

It is recommended to talk with students about the Holocaust and the Permanent Exhibition prior to their Museum visit. The more prepared students are for what they will see, read, and hear, the more ...

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, the Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide and the National Security Archive launched the first phase of a ...

Ms. Susan Papp is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Toronto, Canada, where she has lectured in the Hungarian Studies Program at the Munk School for Global Affairs. She also served as ...