After the devastation of the Holocaust, survivors collaboratively authored yizker bikher, memorial books, devoted to the ...

The Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide has produced several resources on the intersection between dangerous speech and atrocity prevention. Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication ...

The stories that haunt me are, when we went finally to Srebrenica, and saw these people. I mean, these civilians, who were part of Europe, where there was once the Olympic Games, living like animals, ...

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 ...

Born in Berlin in 1929, Peter Feigl moved with his parents to Prague and Brussels before they ended up in southern France in 1940. In 1942, Peter was at a Quaker summer camp when his parents were ...

James Ingo Freed, the architect who designed the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, was born in Essen, Germany, in 1930. At the age of eight, he was evacuated from Europe with his younger sister ...

Remarks of Harvey Meyerhoff, Chairman of the Council, at the Dedication Ceremonies for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, April 22, 1993 Mr. President, His Excellency, the President of the ...

It is recommended to talk with students about the Holocaust and the Permanent Exhibition prior to their Museum visit. The more prepared students are for what they will see, read, and hear, the more ...

Ms. Susan Papp is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Toronto, Canada, where she has lectured in the Hungarian Studies Program at the Munk School for Global Affairs. She also served as ...

Dr. Claudia Schoppmann received a Ph.D. in modern history from the Technical University of Berlin and studied German studies, history, and journalism at the Free University of Berlin and the ...

This educational module aims to help students think more deeply about what it means to be an outsider. Using material from the Museum’s Voices on Antisemitism, the module: Illustrates the existence ...

Dr. Edward Westermann is Professor of History at Texas A&M University (USA), where he teaches courses related to Modern and Contemporary European History. Dr. Westermann earned his Ph.D. in Modern ...