More than 70 years after the Holocaust, hatred, antisemitism, and genocide still threaten our world. The life stories of Holocaust survivors transcend the decades and remind us of the constant need to ...

Hitler's favorite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, was commissioned by the Nazi regime to produce a film of the 1936 Summer Games. The resulting propaganda documentary, Olympia, won first prize at the ...

The safety of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum visitors and staff is our highest priority. The Museum maintains robust security, including a team onsite 24/7 and screening of all individuals ...

The Museum is free and open every day. It is closed on Yom Kippur and Christmas Day. The Museum building is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.. All exhibitions and the Museum shop close at 5:20 p.m.. The ...

Americans served in World War II 36 Army units have been recognized as having liberated Nazi concentration camps ...

Genocide did not end with the Holocaust. The Museum teaches about cases of contemporary genocide and other mass atrocities through in-person and online exhibitions. The in-person exhibition explores ...

Between 1991 and 1993, Rachel worked for the Museum to help open its doors and then served in the Midwest Regional Office from 1995 to 1996. Rachel continued to be a leader in the Chicago community, ...

In his memoir, Leon Leyson describes how he survived the Holocaust as a boy with the help of German businessman Oskar Schindler. This Teacher Guide provides resources for building historical context ...

In 2013, the Museum publicly launched its campaign to ensure that Holocaust memory remains a relevant force in the 21st century. On the occasion of its successful conclusion, as antisemitism and ...

Holocaust survivor Ernie Brod was born in 1938, the same year Nazi Germany annexed Austria. After unleashing a wave of restrictive laws, arrests, and violence targeting the Jewish community, ...

WASHINGTON – Within days, two antisemitic terrorist attacks in the U.S. have cast in stark relief the outcome of the normalization of hatred of the Jewish people. On May 21, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah ...

Synagogues and Jewish-owned restaurant also vandalized. WASHINGTON, DC – The Museum is horrified by the desecration of our long-time, close partner the Mémorial de la Shoah, France’s national ...