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 ...
One of my best friends, Jeanne Rosenthal—the viola player in one of my quartets that performs on International Holocaust Remembrance Day—told me of an exhibit in Cleveland, her hometown, of violins ...
In today’s episode, Gerald Liebenau discusses his memories of Kristallnacht, also known as the “Night of Broken Glass.” On November 9-10, 1938, a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms erupted around ...
WASHINGTON, DC — The Museum is outraged at the deadly terrorist attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, United Kingdom, on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur that killed two and ...
The Programs on Religion and the Holocaust fosters scholarship, teaching, and reflection on the complex ethical, theological, and historical questions raised by the Holocaust.
WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum condemns any attempt to rehabilitate the reputation of Hungary’s wartime leader, Miklos Horthy, who was a vocal antisemite and complicit in ...
For most of us, citizenship is a status we can comfortably take for granted. Yet the millions of people who are denied citizenship of the country where they reside often have no rights, no protections ...
WASHINGTON, DC — The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum welcomes the recognition of the Armenian genocide by President Biden. This follows the 2019 Congressional resolution recognizing this ...
WASHINGTON, DC – On the second anniversary of the single deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum mourns the victims of October 7. We must never ...
One sentence in a speech by FBI Director James Comey at the Museum’s annual dinner on April 15 has triggered a wide-ranging debate about complicity in Poland and Hungary during the Holocaust. Although ...
WASHINGTON, DC—Hajj Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem during World War II, was an antisemite and willing Nazi collaborator. While he was actively supportive of Nazi Germany's efforts to ...
My mother came from a very observant Orthodox Jewish family. Her grandfather was an Orthodox rabbi in a small town in Austria-Hungary (today Prešov, Slovakia). Her father graduated from a yeshiva in ...
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