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Museum Fellowship Deadline Approaching 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.
FotoWeekDC FotoWeekDC
The Museum memorialized survivors of the Holocaust by projecting portraits on exterior walls of the Hall of Remembrance.
Father Patrick Desbois 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.
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Museum calls on Vatican to fully open its Holocaust-era archives.
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Museum Condemns Iranian President Ahmadinejad Addressing U.N. General. Read the press release in Arabic and Farsi.
Museum Issues Statement on Recent Events in Sudan Museum Issues Statement on Recent Events in Sudan. Read the press release.
The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936 Special Exhibition: The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936
On display through August 24, the exhibition explores the issues surrounding the games and features a torch from the 1936 torch run and gold medals won by Jesse Owens and others. Read the press release and watch a short video about the exhibition.
USHMM @ iTunes U USHMM @ iTunes U
The Museum offers audio, video, and text documents for learning about the Holocaust, antisemitism and genocide prevention via iTunes U, a dedicated section of the iTunes Store offering free education content.
Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS
The Museum recently acquired an album of photographs providing a chilling look at the Nazi leadership of Auschwitz. View the online display and read articles in the New York Times and International Herald Tribune.
Genocide Prevention Task Force Genocide Prevention Task Force
This unique partnership of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the American Academy for Diplomacy, and the United States Institute of Peace is the first high-level body dedicated to improving the U.S. government's capacity to respond to emerging threats of genocide.
Crisis in Darfur Google Earth: Crisis in Darfur
This unprecedented online mapping initiative from the Museum and Google Earth lets you visualize, better understand, and respond to the genocide in Darfur.
Youth Service Program - R3 Youth Service Program - R3: Remembrance, Reflection, Response
R3 is a Museum online program that encourages young people to think about the lessons of the Holocaust and its relevance to today. Participate now.
U.S. President George W. Bush speaks at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum about the importance of Holocaust remembrance and the urgent need for action to end genocide in Darfur. Read follow up article in the New York Times.
See highlights from the Museum's 2007 Days of Remembrance commemoration.
President Bush appoints nine members to U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.
The Museum notes with sadness the passing on April 8, 2007, of artist Sol LeWitt. LeWitt created one of four commissioned pieces of art on display in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
National Days of Remembrance 2007: April 15-22. As mandated by Congress, the Museum leads the nation's annual commemoration of the Holocaust. Organize a Holocaust Remembrance Day observance.
Museum testifies before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on the need to open the International Tracing Service, the largest closed Holocaust-era archive in the world. Read the March 28 testimony.
Genocide Prevention Leadership Summit Genocide Prevention Leadership Summit brought together top activists working on preventing genocide to network with one another; discuss the current situation in Darfur and what can be done to bring an end to the violence; receive training on best practices and genocide education; and begin looking at other areas of conflict.
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race opens April 30 in Atlanta at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. View the online exhibition.
Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943 New Museum publication Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943
An acclaimed historian's astonishing feat of biographical investigation rescues from oblivion the story of one child victim of the Holocaust.
The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories New Museum publication The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories
The Unknown Black Book provides a revelatory compilation of testimonies from Jews who survived open-air massacres and other atrocities carried out by the Germans and their allies in the occupied Soviet territories during World War II.
Diary of a Witness, 1940-1943 New Museum publication Diary of a Witness, 1940-1943
"The remarkable wartime diary of Raymond-Raoul Lambert," who was "arguably the most important Jewish official in contact with the Vichy government and the Germans." — Michael R. Marrus
Holocaust Museum statement on e-mail regarding Holocaust education in the United Kingdom. Read the Press Release.
Museum publishes Refuge Denied, the search to discover the fate of all 937 passengers who fled Nazi Germany in 1939 for the U.S. aboard the St. Louis, but were forced to return to Europe. Read more.
replica of a toy bear Space Shuttle Discovery Commander visits the Museum to return two items he took on the most recent mission: a replica of a toy bear carried by a hidden child who survived the Holocaust, and a photo of a Darfurian child in a refugee camp. Press release.