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 ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide (SCPG) seeks applications for a fellowship to assess risks of mass atrocities in Mozambique. The Early ...

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 ...

In the course of her work, curator Susan Snyder realized the Museum’s collection included several diaries created by female slave laborers at Sömmerda, a little-known subcamp of Buchenwald. Here she ...

In 2004 Jerry Fowler, former staff director of the Museum's Committee on Conscience, traveled to Chad to meet refugees who were driven from their homes in Sudan, their villages torched, and their ...

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 ...

In 1938, Manfred Gans left his parents’ home in Germany for the United Kingdom. After World War II began, he was interned as an enemy alien. He volunteered to serve in an elite British unit made up of ...

Andrew Charlesworth received an M.S. in geography at Pennsylvania State University and a B.A. in geography at the University of Cambridge. During his fellowship at the Museum, he was Special Lecturer ...

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 ...

Beate Meyer is Senior Researcher at the Institute of the History of German Jews in Hamburg, Germany. She received a Ph.D. in political science, and M.A. and B.A. equivalents in political science, ...

Dr. Chigbo Anyaduba received his PhD in Literature from the University of Manitoba (Canada), as well as a Master’s degree in English from Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria). As the J.B. and Maurice ...