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

Hitler's favorite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, was commissioned by the Nazi regime to produce a film of the 1936 Summer Games. The resulting propaganda documentary, Olympia, won first prize at the ...

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 safety of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum visitors and staff is our highest priority. The Museum maintains robust security, including a team onsite 24/7 and screening of all individuals ...

The 2025 Silberman Seminar will explore Jewish experiences during World War II in Eastern Europe’s borderlands. Focusing on territories occupied by the Nazis and the Soviets in the wake of the Molotov ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is deeply concerned about further crimes against humanity and a heightened risk of genocide in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The situation has ...

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 ...

Pakistan, Yemen, and Burma/Myanmar top the list of countries at risk for new mass killing in 2022 or 2023, according to the Early Warning Project’s latest annual Statistical Risk Assessment. The new ...

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 ...