The Shapell Center The Museum’s expansive collection is permanently housed at the David and Fela Shapell Family Collections, Conservation and Research Center. Share Your History The Museum is in a ...

Britain's response to the mass violence against Jews on Kristallnacht (the “Night of Broken Glass”) on November 9-10, 1938, was to offer a safe haven to children at risk living under the Nazi yoke, ...

As a young Jewish child, Joan Da Silva had to move from family to family to stay safe from the Nazis in German-occupied Poland, usually without her parents. She ...

Why was man created alone? Is it not true that the creator could have created the whole of humanity? But man was created alone to teach you that whoever kills one life kills the world entire, and ...

I was born a few years before Hitler and his Nazi Party took control of Germany. At first, Jewish youngsters were still allowed to attend German public and high schools. But with Hitler assuming power ...

The Simon-Skjodt Center is beginning to assess the consequences of COVID-19 for genocide and related crimes against humanity and for global efforts to prevent, respond to, and advance justice for ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide seeks applicants from early career scholars for its Genocide and Atrocity Prevention Research ...

This photograph shows Auschwitz fence posts and a quote from ... Exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Never shall I forget that night, the first ...

My mother came from a very observant Orthodox Jewish family. Her grandfather was an Orthodox rabbi in a small town in Austria-Hungary (today Prešov, Slovakia). Her father graduated from a yeshiva in ...

The Programs on Religion and the Holocaust fosters scholarship, teaching, and reflection on the complex ethical, theological, and historical questions raised by the Holocaust.

El Holocausto es la persecución y aniquilación sistemática, auspiciada por el estado, de los judíos europeos por parte de la Alemania nazi y de sus colaboradores entre 1933 y 1945. Los judíos fueron ...

It’s 1938. In Eastern Europe, life is bustling for three young Jews growing up in their vibrant Jewish community. Miriam Kabacznik, Leon Kahn, and Zvi Michaeli. But soon, the Nazi threat emerges on ...