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Michael Gerson
A Holocaust Denier at the Church Door

Museum Council member Michael Gerson on denial and many Christians’ apathy or complicity in the Holocaust and Rwandan genocide.

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ICC issues warrant for Sudanese President

On March 4 the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant, charging President Bashir with crimes against humanity and war crimes.

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Justice Department Transfers Copies of Proceedings Against Alleged Nazi War Criminals Living in the U.S. to the Museum
Justice Department donates trial documents

The Office of Special Investigations donates copies of more than 50,000 pages of trial transcripts and decisions to the Museum’s archive.

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Jerry Fowler
Save Darfur in 2009

Jerry Fowler, president of the Save Darfur Coalition, gives an overview of what issues international activists in Darfur are currently focusing on.

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Bielski partisans and Jewish resistance
Jewish resistance highlighted in Defiance

This new film starring Daniel Craig is based on actual events. Read about the Bielski partisans and Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.

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World is Witness
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.

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International Tracing Service
International Tracing Service

The Museum is responding to survivors’ requests for information from ITS, until recently the world’s largest closed Holocaust archive.

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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.

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Museum Issues Statement on Recent Events in Sudan

Museum Issues Statement on Recent Events in Sudan.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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George W. Bush

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. »
2007 Days of Remembrance

See highlights from the Museum's 2007 Days of Remembrance commemoration.

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Sol LeWitt

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.

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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. »
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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Press Release

Holocaust Museum statement on e-mail regarding Holocaust education in the United Kingdom.

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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.

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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.

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