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 ...

For Syrians who long suffered under the Assad regime’s oppression and brutality, its collapse brought forth a flood of emotions. Today Syrians are engaged in the work of rebuilding their country and ...

A 12-foot slab of steel weighing nearly 30 tons, Richard Serra’s monolithic sculpture Gravity is wedged near the black granite wall at the bottom of the stairs in the southwest corner of the Hall of ...

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 ...

Under Mr. Lerman’s leadership, the Museum began to serve as a voice of conscience by establishing the Committee on Conscience to speak out about contemporary genocide. His relentless efforts and ...

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 ...

Curator Kyra Schuster recounts the serendipitous story of how the Museum came to acquire the puppet that US Army medic Eldon Nicholas used to entertain children at the Vittel internment camp in France ...

Eric C. Steinhart earned an M.A. in modern European history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. summa cum laude in history from St. Olaf College. During his tenure at the ...

The Museum is deeply grateful to the following donors for their generous support of the Museum's Americans and the Holocaust Initiative. Gifts of $5 million or more Jeannie & Jonathan Lavine Gifts of ...

Frank Bajohr is Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Hamburg in Germany. He received habilitation in history and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the same institution. For his Charles H.

On April 28, 1945, in Garmish Parten Kirchen, Germany, the 179 Hungarian women had 179 opinions of their whereabouts, what to do, and where to go. My mother, sister Shosha, and I looked at one another ...

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