For two and a half years of her early childhood, Louise Lawrence-Israëls never once played outside or felt the grass under her feet. Louise was born into a ...

Explore the vast differences in how ordinary people displayed great courage or willful complicity in the face of devastating violence during the rise of ...

The monument commemorates victims of the massacre carried out on July 10, 1941, when Polish residents of Jedwabne, a small town located in then German-occupied Poland, participated in the murder of ...

WASHINGTON – Within days, two antisemitic terrorist attacks in the U.S. have cast in stark relief the outcome of the normalization of hatred of the Jewish people. On May 21, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The Museum is horrified by the desecration of our long-time, close partner the Mémorial de la Shoah, France’s national Holocaust memorial and educational institution, which was ...

WASHINGTON – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is outraged at the horrific antisemitic terrorist attack outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., that claimed the lives of two ...

The Museum welcomes President Trump's new appointments to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Ariel Simon Abergel, DC Jonathan Burkan, NY Robert David Garson, FL Tila Falic, FL Barbara ...

Thirty years after the genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country is in the grips of an escalating political crisis. In an interview with the Simon-Skjodt Center, Velma Šarić, founder and ...

Helen Goldkind was born Helena Lebowitz on July 9, 1928, in Vološanka, Czechoslovakia (today Volosyanka, Ukraine). This small town, nestled in the Carpathian Mountains, had a thriving Jewish community ...

One year ago, Hamas terrorists orchestrated an unconscionable attack on Israel, resulting in the single deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust.

One year ago, more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians, fearing for their safety, fled Azerbaijan after the military seized the region of Nagorno-Karabakh where they lived. Their escape was chaotic, ...

Shifting political dynamics, conflicts affecting multiple regions, and a disputed presidential election signal increased mass atrocity risks in Chad. This blog highlights key developments to monitor.