Elie Wiesel, the Museum’s founding chairman, was deported to Auschwitz with his family in May 1944. He was selected for ...

For years, they could not speak about the Holocaust. Teenagers Ruth Cohen, Steven Fenves, and Irene Weiss were deported in ...

The Museum Teacher Fellowship Program trains leaders in the field of Holocaust education. Together, the fellows form a national corps of skilled educators who help lead the Museum’s efforts to ensure ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum mourns the passing of President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, whose presidential commission recommended establishing the United States Holocaust Memorial ...

In these uncertain times, amid the dangerous surge in antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and Holocaust distortion, our community stands together to support the Museum's critical mission. Join us in ...

The children who walked through the doors of the medieval monastery in Germany had endured all manner of Nazi terror. One Jewish boy from Poland had survived more ...

As of 2024, more than 5 billion people—over half of the world’s population—use social media. The immense popularity of these digital networks means that social media is the way that many, if not most ...

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 ...

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In 2007, an album of photographs showing how the Nazis at Auschwitz spent their leisure time came into the Museum’s collection. Learn more about these rare photographs, delve deeper into Holocaust ...

In July 1995, as the civil war in Bosnia raged on, humanitarian-aid workers in the Bosnian Muslim town of Tuzla, in the northern part of the country, came to a startling realization. Dispatched to ...