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FotoWeekDC The Museum memorialized survivors of the Holocaust by projecting portraits on exterior walls of the Hall of Remembrance.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race opens April 30 in Atlanta at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. View the online exhibition.
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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
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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.
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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.
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