Germany skillfully promoted the Olympics with colorful posters and magazine spreads. Athletic imagery drew a link between Nazi Germany and ancient Greece. These portrayals symbolized the Nazi racial ...

The Museum is free and open every day. It is closed on Yom Kippur and Christmas Day. The Museum building is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. All exhibitions and the Museum shop close at 5:20 p.m. The ...

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies announces the call for applications for the 2025 Curt C. and Else Silberman Faculty Seminar on Jewish Experiences Under Nazi ...

Learn about the Holocaust survivors who volunteer at the Museum or request to hear a survivor share his or her experiences in person.

Americans served in World War II 36 Army units have been recognized as having liberated Nazi concentration camps ...

In 2013, the Museum publicly launched its campaign to ensure that Holocaust memory remains a relevant force in the 21st century. On the occasion of its successful conclusion, as antisemitism and ...

Holocaust survivor Ernie Brod was born in 1938, the same year Nazi Germany annexed Austria. After unleashing a wave of restrictive laws, arrests, and violence targeting the Jewish community, ...

Two antisemitic terrorist attacks in the U.S. in just 11 days is the outcome of the normalization of hatred of the Jewish people.

This lesson is structured around a multi-layered wall timeline that encourages critical thinking about the relationship between Nazi policy, World War II, historical events, and individual experiences ...

US Holocaust Memorial Museum educators and historians created these lesson plans for use in secondary classrooms. Click on a lesson plan to see its recommended grade level, subjects covered, and time ...

Aftermath of World War I and the Rise of Nazism, 1918–1933 This 38-minute film examines the Nazis’ rise and consolidation of power in Germany. Using rare footage, the film explores their ideology, ...

Highlights of the program include the Art and Memory project, in which students meet with a Holocaust survivor and then create an artwork inspired by the survivor’s experiences. The history and ...