Holocaust survivors have volunteered at the Museum on a regular basis across the institution—engaging with visitors, sharing their personal histories, serving as tour guides, translating historic ...

Developed in cooperation with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and powered by Google Expeditions, this field trip allows students to virtually experience the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945 provides comprehensive documentation of camps, ghettos, and other persecutory sites that the Nazi regime and its allies operated in a vast network ...

An estimated 100,000 people were killed during the conflict in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995, including the July 1995 genocide of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica. Learn more about what happened ...

In the aftermath of World War I, Germans struggled to understand their country’s uncertain future. Citizens faced poor economic conditions, skyrocketing unemployment, political instability, and ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been embroiled in violent conflict since the start of the First Congo War in 1996, followed by the Second Congo War, which was the deadliest conflict since World ...

Summer Graduate Student Research Fellowships support early-career graduate students in three-month residencies at the Mandel Center to provide them the opportunity to test ideas, share research ...

One Survivor Remembers is Gerda Weissmann’s account of surviving the Holocaust. This film was produced in 1995 by HBO and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Learn more about the subjects and materials represented in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's collections.

Genocide and mass atrocities are commonly preceded and accompanied by “dangerous speech”—hate speech that has the potential to influence people to accept, condone, or commit violence against targeted ...

The Katz Ehrenthal Collection—acquired through the generosity of the Katz family—consists of over 900 individual objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the Medieval to ...

The Simon-Skjodt Center reviewed research about selected atrocity prevention tools to help policy makers develop effective responses to atrocity crises and help inform ongoing and future research.