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Born into a Jewish family in German-occupied Amsterdam, Robert Teitel never got to know his parents. He never learned to play chess from his father, a master ...

The adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide marked a turning point in world history. Today, 150 nations including ...

Through hundreds of legal measures, the Nazi-led German government gradually excluded Jews from public life, the professions, and public education. The goal of Nazi propaganda was to demonize Jews and ...

At the time of Phnom Penh’s fall, the Cambodian economy was at a virtual standstill due to the devastation of the civil war and the bombing. The Khmer Rouge intensified the paralysis with a series of ...

Genocide and mass atrocities are commonly preceded and accompanied by “dangerous speech”—hate speech that has the potential to influence people to accept, condone, or commit violence against targeted ...

President Omar al-Bashir’s authoritarian rule of Sudan began in 1989. Brutal conflict and targeting of minority ethnic groups characterized his 30 year rule. The crimes committed during his regime ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum mourns the passing of Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who helped smuggle hundreds of Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust. As ...

With the passing of Pope John Paul II, the world has lost a moral leader fervently committed to fighting the prejudice and hatred that led to the Holocaust. Karol Jozef Wojtyla was born and raised in ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum deeply mourns the passing of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate, and international leader of the Holocaust remembrance movement. In the ...

The movement for independence of southern Sudan began in the 1950s when a decades-long conflict broke out between the peoples of southern Sudan and the government in Khartoum, Sudan. Over the course ...

Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration & Complicity in the Holocaust addresses one of the central questions about the Holocaust: How was it possible? The central role of Hitler and other Nazi Party ...