At this critical time of surging antisemitism, it is more important than ever that we gather to remember the victims and honor the survivors of the Holocaust. Join us in New York City to commemorate ...

For years, they could not speak about the Holocaust. Teenagers Ruth Cohen, Steven Fenves, and Irene Weiss were deported in crowded cattle cars to Auschwitz-Birkenau with 430,000 other Jews from ...

Elie Wiesel, the Museum’s founding chairman, was deported to Auschwitz with his family in May 1944. He was selected for ...

The Permanent Exhibition opens with images of concentration camps taken by US Army soldiers in 1945. These scenes shocked even battle-hardened troops and informed the world of the horrors of Nazism ...

Doris Bergen is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies in the Department of History and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. A Fellow of ...

Behind Every Name a Story consists of essays describing survivors’ experiences during the Holocaust, written by survivors or their families. The essays, accompanying photographs, and other materials, ...

Vladimir Solonari received a Ph.D. in history at Moscow State University in Russia and a B.A. cum laude in history at Moldova State University in Chisinau. During his tenure at the Museum, he was ...

Dr. Alioune Dème is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Cheikh Anta Diop University (Senegal). He earned his PhD from Rice University in Houston, Texas in 2004. His dissertation is entitled ...

John-Paul Himka is a professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta, Canada. He received a Ph.D. in history and a B.A. with high honors in Byzantine-Slavonic studies ...

Invitation to the annual National Days of Remembrance gathering in Washington, DC (includes attendance at the Ceremony in the US Capitol and the National Tribute Dinner). 10% Discount in the Museum ...

“Mapping Transnational Holocaust Discourses and Historicizing Local Knowledge in Post-Soviet Lithuanian Educational Reforms.” Dr. Christine Beresniova recently completed her PhD at Indiana University, ...