Museum Council member Michael Gerson on denial and many Christians’ apathy or complicity in the Holocaust and Rwandan genocide.
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On March 4 the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant, charging President Bashir with crimes against humanity and war crimes.
More »The Office of Special Investigations donates copies of more than 50,000 pages of trial transcripts and decisions to the Museum’s archive.
More »Jerry Fowler, president of the Save Darfur Coalition, gives an overview of what issues international activists in Darfur are currently focusing on.
More »This new film starring Daniel Craig is based on actual events. Read about the Bielski partisans and Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.
More »This new “geoblog” opens a window into the lives of people affected by genocide and its long-term consequences.
More »The Museum is responding to survivors’ requests for information from ITS, until recently the world’s largest closed Holocaust archive.
More »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.
More »Read the press release in Arabic and Farsi.
Learn more »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.
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.
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.
This unprecedented online mapping initiative from the Museum and Google Earth lets you visualize, better understand, and respond to the genocide in Darfur.
More »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. »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.
More »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. »Opens April 30 in Atlanta at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
View the online exhibition. »An acclaimed historian's astonishing feat of biographical investigation rescues from oblivion the story of one child victim of the Holocaust.
More »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.
More »“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
More »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.
More »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. »