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

Total number of agency federal employees expected to be on board before implementation of the plan: 102 Total number of agency federal employees expected to be furloughed under the plan (unduplicated ...

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The 2026 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar explores interdisciplinary approaches for incorporating Holocaust survivor testimonies into the college classroom. While foregrounding audiovisual ...

Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the risk of mass atrocities has increased for vulnerable groups, including ethnic and religious minorities. Afghanistan currently ranks ...

Claude Lanzmann spent 12 years locating survivors, perpetrators, eyewitnesses, and scholars for his nine-and-a-half-hour film Shoah, released in 1985. Deliberately rejecting the use of archival ...

The Museum welcomes President Trump's new appointments to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Ariel Simon Abergel, DC Jonathan Burkan, NY Robert David Garson, FL Tila Falic, FL Barbara ...

Edna Friedberg, Ph.D., is a historian in the Museum’s William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education. Nazis seem to be everywhere these days. I don’t mean self-proclaimed neo-Nazis. I’m ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is outraged by Hamas’s unconscionable attack on Israel, killing hundreds, and targeting Israeli citizens for kidnapping, including a Holocaust survivor, ...

India ranks second in this year's Early Warning Project Statistical Risk Assessment, marking its highest risk and rank to date. For the last five years, India has ranked in the top 15 highest-risk ...

Ethiopian civilians face a dire risk of mass atrocities as the country’s civil war—now more than a year old—intensifies. The news of the withdrawal of Tigrayan rebel forces from the Afar and Amhara ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is deeply alarmed at the hateful rhetoric at a conference of white nationalists held on November 19 at the Ronald Reagan Building just ...