United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Museum Fellowship Deadline Approaching
The 2009-2010 fellowship competition at the Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is now open. The deadline to apply is November 26.

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The Museum memorialized survivors of the Holocaust by projecting portraits on exterior walls of the Hall of Remembrance.

Father Patrick Desbois
In cooperation with the Museum, Father Desbois is leading a historic undertaking to locate every unknown mass grave and site at which Jews were killed in the Ukraine during the Holocaust. Read a New York Times article, listen to the podcast, and learn more about his forthcoming book.

Museum Press Release
Museum calls on Vatican to fully open its Holocaust-era archives.

Museum launches World is Witness in Google Earth
This new “geoblog” opens a window into the lives of people affected by genocide and its long-term consequences. Learn more about Congo and Rwanda, and read the most recent entries from a Museum visit to South Sudan.

International Tracing Service
The Museum is responding to survivors' requests for information from the ITS archive. Read more, learn about the opening of the largest Holocaust archive in the world, and find out how to submit a request for information.

More What's New

Listen to the Museum's podcast series "Voices on Antisemitism."

Tad Stahnke believes that discrimination can exist in any society, and affect any individual. Everyone has an interest--and a responsibility--to confront violence and prejudice in our communities.

Antony Polonsky has learned that there are no simple answers to the large questions of history, no single view of the past. Any view of history must incorporate many truths, including some that may be difficult to accept.

Nobel Laureate and Museum Founding Chairman, Elie Wiesel, speaks with the Museum about contemporary antisemitism, memory, and the memorial role of museums. Read the AAM article (PDF).
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The Museum expresses concern about the deteriorating situation in the Eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Learn more. Visit World is Witness to learn more from our "geoblog."

Listen to the Museum's podcast series "Voices on Genocide Prevention".

Adeeb Yousif discusses his work helping tribal leaders end local conflicts in Darfur in the hope this will help end the genocide. Listen also to a 2006 interview.

Listen to how American students helped a Sudanese refugee in Kenya find a scholarship. Learn more about the students' plans to help similar refugees.

Hitler's Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism, by Kevin P. Spicer, introduces the "brown priests" who participated in the Nazi movement, examines their motives, and explores the consequences of their political activism.

Now you can search the online catalog and watch many of the films in the Museum's Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, including clips of Nuremberg rallies, Nazi racial science, prewar Jewish life, and more.