Eminent historian Randolph L. Braham addressed the destruction of Hungarian Jewry during the Holocaust in the 2012 Weinmann Lecture.

Listen to David Draiman, lead singer of the hard-rock band Disturbed, explain why he wrote a song about Holocaust denial and antisemitism.

Join director Rose Bosch and actress Mélanie Laurent for the July 18 screening of this French drama about the 1942 Vél d'Hiv Roundup.

In order to open a second front in western Europe, Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, marking a turning point in World War II.

The president paid tribute to Holocaust survivors and launched the Atrocities Prevention Board to coordinate the US response to genocide.

Discover the connection between a young girl’s green sweater in the Museum’s collection and the Oscar-nominated film.

View the webcast of the National Days of Remembrance commemoration in the US Capitol Rotunda.

On June 10, 2009, Officer Johns died heroically while protecting the Museum from a brutal attacker. His legacy lives on through a unique program for tomorrow’s leaders.

Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was tried in Israel, where the proceedings brought world attention to the voices of Holocaust survivors.

The Museum's Remember Me? website project took home two Webbies, the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.

Though vastly outgunned, fighters in the Warsaw ghetto held out for almost a month in what became the largest Jewish uprising in occupied Europe.

“Yes, That’s My Father” was selected for the 2012 DoGooder Nonprofit Video Award.

Help the Museum determine the fates of 1,100 children displaced and alone at the end of World War II. Watch the CBS News story on the project.

Before the film, which is set against the backdrop of the Bosnian war, Jolie toured the Museum’s exhibit on genocide prevention.

Between 1933 and 1945, more than 188,000 people were imprisoned at Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, in southern Germany.

After the German parliament (Reichstag) building was destroyed by arson, the government suspended most civil rights in Germany—a major turning point in the Nazi rise to power.

Contributors from around the world help key one million Museum records on Holocaust victims.

Apply for a three-day workshop to explore methodology and content for teaching about the Holocaust. Deadline: January 26, 2012.

Soviet forces entered Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, liberating the camp's more than 7,000 remaining prisoners.

For 63 years survivor Sol Finkelstein didn't know his father's fate in the Holocaust. Watch as he learns today.

See how Drew Beiter and Mark Gudgel are helping Rwandan teachers bring the lessons of the Holocaust to their classrooms.

The Museum is inviting leading Congo analysts to write about potential threats to civilians following the recent vote. Follow the blog series.

Due to the potential for shutdown of the federal government, the Museum has prepared a shutdown plan.

SS and police established the Chelmno killing center, the first stationary facility where poison gas was used, on December 8, 1941.

The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is now accepting fellowship applications for the 2012–13 academic year. Deadline: February 17, 2012.

Submit a proposal and if accepted, spend two weeks on collaborative research with other scholars. Deadline: January 27, 2012.

As Museum Goldfarb fellow, journalist Michael Dobbs documents the trial of Ratko Mladic, former Bosnian Serb military leader accused of genocide.

Thanks to more than 2,100 volunteers from around the world, information about more than 30,000 Holocaust victims is now searchable online.

Learn more about the “Night of Broken Glass,” violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place November 9 and 10.

His $17.2 million gift, the institution’s largest, will help to secure the Museum’s endowment fund.

As Allied troops marched through fortress Europe, they liberated concentration camps, ending Nazi tyranny.

Navegar por la Enciclopedia del Holocausto, exposiciones en línea y otros recursos.

Apply for the Jack and Anita Hess Seminar for Faculty, “Holocaust Geographies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching about the Holocaust.” Deadline: October 31.

Learn more about the notorious camp and how prisoners rebelled after learning that they were going to be killed.

Listen to how Mike Godwin started a discussion on whether it is appropriate to make Hitler or Nazi comparisons.

President Obama has issued a directive to elevate genocide prevention as a U.S. government priority. View video of the Museum's response.

A conference on the current human rights and political situation in Congo brought together leading policy experts and Congolese civic leaders.

The Museum’s highest honor is now known as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Elie Wiesel Award.

In memory of Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, the Museum created a program to inspire young people to become leaders in their communities.

Learn more about the trials of the Nazi collaborator for his role in the deaths of more than 28,000 Jews.

Remember the genocide and the hundreds of thousands of victims who died. Listen to the testimony from one victim, Mary “Fifi” Mukangoga.

Anthony Gambino, an expert on the Congo, addresses the importance and difficulties of the country's elections scheduled for November 2011.

Listen to journalist and writer Mvemba Dizolele discuss the legacy of the country's long-time ruler, Mobutu Sese Seko.

Watch speeches from the Capitol Rotunda, including Justice Stephen Breyer, and Ambassador of Israel Dr. Michael B. Oren.

After visit, Ban Ki-moon says “never again” is a “clarion call to action,” cites Libya, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan.

Frank Meeink describes how he became an advocate for tolerance and diversity.

Vice President Joseph Biden speaks at a special Museum event in memory of Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress.

Read the trip report for insights into the risks faced by Sudan in the lead up to the vote for Southern independence.

College and university faculty are invited to apply to participate in the 2011 Silberman Seminar “Teaching the Holocaust: An Integrated Approach.”

Mohamed Magid believes it's important for him, as an Imam, to speak out against antisemitism and Holocaust denial.

Sen. Proxmire’s campaign for U.S. Senate ratification of the Genocide Convention, accomplished 25 years ago.

Read about the journals of young writers who recorded their feelings as they endured unimaginable trauma.

UN genocide prevention office issues second statement on deteriorating situation.

Museum congratulates Gerda Weissmann Klein on receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Apply for summer workshops exploring issues related to the Holocaust. Applications due by January 28, 2011.

Leading experts from more than 20 governments explore ways to improve international cooperation on genocide prevention at Paris conference.

Anthony Acevedo donates artifacts from his time spent in a Nazi camp to the Museum.

A wide-ranging film and photo collection of Poland and Nazi Germany now online for the first time.

The Museum cohosted a conference about the anniversary featuring Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor to Vice President Biden.

Businessman turned diplomat creates El Salvadoran citizenship certificates to save Jews during the Holocaust.

Learn about the Nazi book burnings and the lessons they hold for us today.

Director of Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies awarded Germany’s highest civilian recognition.

Sara Bloomfield opened an exhibit on liberation at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum.

Read Bridget Conley-Zilkic’s GlobalPost column, which shows how the world might have foreseen the recent outbreak of violence in Kyrgyzstan.

Read COC Director Mike Abramowitz’s account of key issues facing the International Criminal Court Review Meeting in Kampala.

Watch the nation’s Days of Remembrance ceremony with featured speaker General David Petraeus.

Learn more about some of the 500,000 individuals who died during the 100-day genocide, and how you can take action to prevent future genocides.

In USA Today, Museum Director Sara Bloomfield urges us to remember the Holocaust and combat denial.

Watch a video by Holocaust survivor and Museum volunteer Estelle Laughlin as she reflects on this milestone.

Sara Bloomfield, for the Museum, was recognized by Poland’s president on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

New series, Curators’ Corner, highlights artifacts, photographs, and documents in the Museum’s collections and the stories they bring to life.

Read a joint op-ed from the Museum and USIP about how--and why--President Obama can make preventing genocide a strategic objective.

Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel and Museum Director Sara Bloomfield participate in opening ceremony of Romanian Holocaust memorial.

Watch video of a special Museum program with Susan Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

Visit the groundbreaking multimedia exhibition that explores the Nazis’ sophisticated propaganda campaigns and their legacy.

2009 marks the 80th anniversary of the year of Anne Frank’s birth.

Statement by Chair of the Museum-affiliated Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research.

Internet hate speech today contains echoes of Nazi propaganda, writes Museum Council member Michael Gerson in his Washington Post column.

Museum Council member Michael Gerson in his column in The Washington Post comments on the use of Nazi imagery in the national debate and its effect on Holocaust memory.

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies now accepting fellowship applications for 2010-2011 academic year.

Einsatzgruppen documentary airs on National Geographic Channel. Learn more about mobile killing units.

Read President Obama’s remarks at Buchenwald on June 5 where he spoke of the importance of bearing witness.

Read Victoria Barnett’s post about the Holocaust’s implications for people of faith in the “On Faith” Washington Post/Newsweek online forum.

Watch the video of the Museum’s Days of Remembrance ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

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

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

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

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

This new “geoblog” opens a window into the lives of people affected by genocide and its long-term consequences.

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.

Read the press release in Arabic and Farsi.

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.

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.

Museum Issues Statement on Recent Events in Sudan.

R³ is a Museum online program that encourages young people to think about the lessons of the Holocaust and its relevance to today.

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.

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.

An acclaimed historian's astonishing feat of biographical investigation rescues from oblivion the story of one child victim of the Holocaust.

“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

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.

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

Opens April 30 in Atlanta at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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

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.

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.

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.