Alfred Flatow (1869-1942): At the 1896 Athens Olympics, Alfred Flatow won the individual and team parallel bars competitions for Germany and placed second on the horizontal bar. At the age of 73, ...

For two weeks in August 1936, Adolf Hitler's Nazi dictatorship camouflaged its racist, militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics. Minimizing its antisemitic agenda and plans for ...

In 1945, the world faced a near-impossible task.

Aftermath of World War I and the Rise of Nazism, 1918–1933 This 38-minute film examines the Nazis’ rise and consolidation of power in Germany. Using rare footage, the film explores their ideology, ...

A controversial move at the Games was the benching of two American Jewish runners, Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller. Both had trained for the 4x100-meter relay, but on the day before the event, they ...

The Shapell Center The Museum’s expansive collection is permanently housed at the David and Fela Shapell Family Collections, Conservation and Research Center. Share Your History The Museum is in a ...

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is a nonpartisan, independent establishment of the US government. It teaches that the Holocaust was preventable and that by heeding warning signs and taking early ...

Croom, Emily Anne. Unpuzzling Your Past: A Basic Guide to Genealogy. White Hall, Va.: Betterway Publishers, 1983. Doane, Gilbert H. and James B. Bell. Searching for ...

In the world today, we see extremist ideologies often driven by adherence to religious doctrine or domination by an ethnic group. This kind of extremism is not a new phenomenon. Beginning in 1933, ...

Pete grew up in Essen, a major industrial city on Germany’s Ruhr River. His father worked as a cattle hide dealer for an international trading company in nearby Mühlheim. His mother was a designer for ...

These Holocaust lesson plans introduce key concepts and information to middle school and high school students. Grounded in historical context, the lessons utilize primary source materials from the ...