Rose-Helene Spreiregen was just a child waiting in line for rations when she overheard adults call her a “dirty Jew.” Naive ...

Mass atrocities leave victims with profound pain and long-term requirements for support to rebuild their lives. Ambassador ...

Monna and Otto Weinmann Annual Lecture During the Nazi regime, approximately 1,000 European Jewish youths migrated ...

On September 19, 2023, following a nine-month blockade and a military offensive by Azerbaijan, ethnic Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountain enclave in Azerbaijan, packed up everything they ...

July 9–13, 2025: First Museum Teacher Fellowship program date, at the Museum in Washington, DC July 2026 TBD: Second Museum Teacher Fellowship program date NOTE: Fellowship applicants must have ...

Since the start of the conflict in Syria, the Museum has been sounding the alarm for policymakers and the public about atrocities being committed by the Assad regime. As part of its campaign of ...

Designed to support accurate, meaningful teaching about the Holocaust, the Belfer National Conference for Holocaust Education is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s flagship event for ...

The following videos, produced by US Holocaust Memorial Museum educators and historians, provide guidance on how to teach about the Holocaust. The videos explain Museum-created resources for educators ...

Video length: 12 minutes During the 1930s, hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees tried to escape Europe and immigrate to the United States, but not everyone was successful. As the German government ...

Henry Weil was born Heinz Weil on September 22, 1935, in Vienna, Austria. Henry’s father, Hugo, worked in a leather goods store owned by his uncle Philipp Weil. His mother, Maria “Marishka” née ...

1926. Yaakov and Mania Muszynski celebrate their wedding in the Bedzin ghetto.