Small Words, Big Questions We live in a paradoxical moment for Holocaust memory. On the one hand, we encounter Holocaust ...

“Once you entered Camp number 3, you never got out.” Camp III included the gas chambers, mass graves, and—starting soon after Niemann’s transfer to Sobibor in late summer 1942—a cremation site for the ...

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is a nonpartisan, independent establishment of the US government. It teaches that the Holocaust was preventable and that by heeding warning signs and taking early ...

This online lesson plan is compatible with learning management systems or web browsers for students to complete individually or as a class. You can use the PDF of the ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive is one of the largest and most diverse collections of Holocaust testimonies in the world. The archive includes ...

It’s 1938. In Eastern Europe, life is bustling for three young Jews growing up in their vibrant Jewish community. Miriam Kabacznik, Leon Kahn, and Zvi Michaeli. But soon, the Nazi threat emerges on ...

Born into a Jewish family in German-occupied Amsterdam, Robert Teitel never got to know his parents. He never learned to play chess from his father, a master ...

Holocaust survivors have volunteered at the Museum on a regular basis across the institution—engaging with visitors, sharing their personal histories, serving as tour guides, translating historic ...

The middle floor of the Permanent Exhibition examines the wartime evolution of Nazi policy towards the Jews, from persecution to mass murder. As Germany expanded its territory across Europe, Nazi ...

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 ...

Through hundreds of legal measures, the Nazi-led German government gradually excluded Jews from public life, the professions, and public education. The goal of Nazi propaganda was to demonize Jews and ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum deeply mourns the passing of Benjamin Ferencz, Nuremberg prosecutor and advocate for victims of the Holocaust, pioneer in the field of international ...