The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is a nonpartisan, independent establishment of the US government. It teaches that the Holocaust was preventable and that by heeding warning signs and taking early ...

The Museum offers a wide selection of online resources about the Holocaust and other genocides and mass atrocities. These tools provide a variety of ways to learn and teach about this important ...

The Eyewitness to History video library enables audiences everywhere to hear firsthand testimony from Holocaust survivors. This resource allows schools, civic and religious groups, military bases, and ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive is one of the largest and most diverse collections of Holocaust testimonies in the world. The archive includes ...

Students in grades six and above demonstrate the ability to empathize with individual eyewitness accounts and to attempt to understand the complexities of Holocaust history, including the scope and ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country’s memorial to the ...

The Rubenstein Institute is currently limiting access to our Collection materials to items that may be serviced in the Shapell Center Reading Room. The Museum’s David M. Rubenstein National Institute ...

Holocaust denial, distortion, and misuse are strategies used to undermine or cast doubt upon the historical truth of the Holocaust. Deniers engage in this activity to reduce perceived public sympathy ...

There are many ways to recognize Days of Remembrance in your city, school, workplace, or religious institution. The resources provided here are for the most common types of remembrance activities.

Norah Bagarinka, a Tutsi, was targeted during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. She survived, as many Tutsi did, by running and hiding for more than 100 days. Transcript When we reached the roadblock, I ...

The foundation of any lesson, unit, or course should rest on a clear set of rationales (Totten and Feinberg, 2001). A strong rationale provides focus and promotes understanding of the Holocaust as a ...

After the war many ordinary Germans and Europeans claimed that they were “not involved” in Nazi crimes. 1 The construction of such postwar memories—and abdication of any responsibility for what ...