"Hamas terrorists held these innocent human beings for two years in horrific conditions inflicting unimaginable cruelty on them as well as their families who spent all this agonizing time not knowing ...

Hamas must immediately release all of the remaining hostages. Governments, organizations, and individuals worldwide need to strongly confront the virulent antisemitism that has erupted.

The Museum is outraged at the deadly terrorist attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, United Kingdom, on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur that killed two and injured three others ...

As a teenager, Ruth Cohen and her family, along with other Jews, were forced from their home into a ghetto in what was then Hungary. About a month later, German ...

The following resources were created to assist educators using distance learning platforms to teach about the Holocaust. Visit our Teaching Materials by Topic pages to see all Museum lesson plans. Ask ...

Download poster sets, covering topics like propaganda and the roles of individuals during the Holocaust, to use in your classroom. Are you an educator looking for resources for your classroom? Please ...

The US Congress established Days of Remembrance as the nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust. The Museum is responsible for leading the nation in observing Days of Remembrance and for ...

Because the Holocaust involved people in different roles and situations living in countries across Europe over a period of time—from Nazi Germany in the 1930s to German-occupied Hungary in 1944—one ...

Each artifact in our collection has a story to tell. The Artifacts Unpacked video series takes you behind the scenes to learn about the objects the Museum protects and how they keep alive the memory ...

These lesson plans explore how propaganda and hate speech were used by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Lessons encourage critical thinking about the effects of propaganda on people and society.

The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators. Learn more in the Museum’s Holocaust Encyclopedia.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country’s memorial to the ...