The Amos S. Deinard Memorial Chair in Jewish History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities “There are No Jews in Morocco, Only Moroccan Subjects”: Mohammed V’s Response to Vichy’s Anti-Jewish ...

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 ...

It is recommended to conduct a 30- to 40-minute discussion with students soon after their visit to help them recall what they have learned and to reflect upon the Holocaust and its implications. The ...

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 ...

In this episode, Chief Acquisitions Curator Judy Cohen shares items from the recently acquired Katz Ehrenthal Collection. Judy explains how this collection of antisemitic materials, some around 500 ...

The first day of Chanukah fell on December 23, just 42 days after the infamous “Night of Broken Glass” (Kristallnacht). That night most of Vienna’s synagogues were torched, Jewish stores were looted ...

Carl Weiler’s winter gear, ski equipment, and family correspondence illustrate his life and document his experiences of fleeing Nazi persecution.

Is my donation going to be immediately publicly accessible or displayed on exhibit? In telling the story of the Holocaust we depend on a large collection, of which only a small percentage can ever be ...

Located on the first floor, the Hall of Witness is a three-story, sky-lit gathering place. The elements of dislocation first introduced outside the building reappear here. Visitors who arrive from ...

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 ...

The Museum is deeply grateful to the following donors for their generous support of the Museum's Americans and the Holocaust Initiative. Gifts of $5 million or more Jeannie & Jonathan Lavine Gifts of ...

On April 28, 1945, in Garmish Parten Kirchen, Germany, the 179 Hungarian women had 179 opinions of their whereabouts, what to do, and where to go. My mother, sister Shosha, and I looked at one another ...