For two and a half years of her early childhood, Louise Lawrence-Israëls never once played outside or felt the grass under her feet. Louise was born into a ...

For more than three decades, Rachel and David Sternberg have demonstrated their unwavering commitment to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s mission. The Sternbergs have twice served as vice ...

In Nazi concentration camps, music was a weapon of torment and resistance. SS officers forced Jewish musicians, like violinist Shony Braun, to compete in humiliating life or death performances. They ...

These short educational explainer videos explore key topics and themes of Holocaust history.

2. Warsaw Jews demonstrate against Hitlerism, Fascism and attacks on Jewish schools. II linking the need to fight fascism on the war front with the need to fight racism on the home front. ... many saw ...

“Every German athlete should voluntarily participate in strengthening the military might of the German people.” —Hans von Tschammer und Osten, Reich Sports Office Director, April 30, 1933 Hitler ...

The presence of the German military at the Winter Games dampened visitors' mood at the festival. Here, Hitler inspects troops in Garmisch during the Games. February 1936.

This video explains what propaganda is and how Hitler and the Nazis used it to exclude Jews and other groups from German society. They relied on a variety of advertising techniques, like catchy ...

The Nazis established many types of camps, including concentration camps, forced-labor camps, transit camps, and five killing centers, among others. By the end of the Holocaust and World War II, ...

Explore the vast differences in how ordinary people displayed great courage or willful complicity in the face of devastating violence during the rise of ...

This 1,100-square-foot traveling exhibition is based on the exhibition that opened in 2018 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The Americans and the Holocaust traveling ...

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 ...