Uncovering Personal Stories from the Holocaust Promote student understanding using artifacts from the Museum’s collection At this ...

Priority is given to survivors and their immediate families. The Museum honors as Survivors any persons, Jewish or non-Jewish, who were displaced, persecuted, or discriminated against due to the ...

Josef Kohout, more widely known as Heinz Heger, was the subject of The Men with the Pink Triangle, the first published account of a gay survivor of the Nazi camps. Dr. Klaus Müller, the Museum’s ...

Newly ­declassified reporting by key members of the UN Security Council provides a day­-by-day narrative of the international response to the Rwandan genocide, including the decision to withdraw UN ...

Professor Peter Longerich received a Ph.D. in history and an M.A. in history and sociology from the University of Munich. During his fellowship at the Museum, he was Professor of Modern GermanDr ...

Carli Snyder is a PhD candidate in the history department at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She also holds a master’s degree in history from the CUNY Graduate Center, and a ...

Professor Christopher R Browning received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. During his fellowship at the Museum, he was the Frank Porter Graham Professor of ...

This lesson focuses on the history of antisemitism and its role in the Holocaust. Learning about the origins of hatred and prejudice against Jews encourages students to think critically about ...

A controversial move at the Games was the benching of two American Jewish runners, Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller. Both had trained for the 4x100-meter relay, but on the day before the event, they ...

Antisemitism is prejudice against or hatred of Jews. Learn more about the history of the word and Nazi antisemitism in the Holocaust Encyclopedia. This 13-minute film explains the history of ...

Crimes against humanity are defined as “any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population.” The acts include murder, ...

This three-minute video explains Holocaust denial and the different forms it takes. Transcript Holocaust denial is a form of antisemitism. The only reason to deny the Holocaust is to inculcate and ...