United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Special Exhibition: The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936
After a 10-year national tour, the exhibition returns to Washington D.C. on April 25. Featured artifacts include a torch from the 1936 torch run and gold medals won by Jesse Owens and others. Read the press release and learn more about the Berlin Olympics.

Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS
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.

Museum launches World is Witness in Google Earth
This new "geoblog" initiative opens a window into the lives of people affected by genocide and its long-term consequences. Learn more about Congo and Rwanda today. Read the press release.

International Tracing Service
The Museum is ready to respond to survivors' requests for information from the ITS archive. Read more, learn about the opening of the largest Holocaust archive in the world, and find out how to submit a request for information.

Father Patrick Desbois
Father Desbois' unprecedented research explores the fate of Ukrainian Jews during the Holocaust. Read the New York Times article, listen to an interview with him, and get information about his forthcoming book.

USHMM @ iTunes U
The Museum offers audio, video, and text documents via iTunes U, a dedicated section of the iTunes Store offering free education content.

Youth Service Program - R³: Remembrance, Reflection, Response
R³ is a Museum online program that encourages young people to think about the lessons of the Holocaust and its relevance to today. Participate now

More What's New

Listen to the Museum's podcast series "Voices on Antisemitism."

Ilan Stavans has long thought of himself as an outsider, first as a Jew growing up in Mexico and now as a Mexican living in America.

In November 1938, the Nazis destroyed Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues in an event known as Kristallnacht—the "Night of Broken Glass." Susan Warsinger was an an eyewitness to that terrifying event.

Nobel Laureate and Museum Founding Chairman, Elie Wiesel, speaks with the Museum's Daniel Greene about contemporary antisemitism, memory, and the role of museums in remembering tragedy. Read the AAM article (PDF)
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Listen to the Museum's podcast series "Voices on Genocide Prevention".

Human Rights Watch researcher David Buchbinder analyzes the conflict in Chad and how it relates to violence across the border in Sudan.

Elizabeth Powley with the Initiative for Inclusive Security discusses how women are playing leadership roles and changing the political landscape in Rwanda.

2008 Genocide Prevention Op-Ed Writing & Video Contest
What advice would you give the next U.S. President on preventing and responding to threats of genocide and related crimes against humanity? Contest details

Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943, the story of one child victim of the Holocaust, and The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories, a compilation of testimonies from Jews who survived open-air massacres and other atrocities.

With the upcoming 60th anniversary of the voyage of the Exodus, the Museum, in partnership with the Israeli project "Exodus 1947," seeks to locate and find the 4,500 passengers who were on this ship. Read more about the project

Now you can search the online catalog and watch many of the films in the Museum's Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, including clips of Nuremberg rallies, Nazi racial science, prewar Jewish life, and more.