Alfred Münzer was born in 1941 to a Jewish family during Nazi Germany’s occupation of the Netherlands. Trying to keep the family safe, his parents arranged to ...

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 United States Holocaust Memorial Council was established by Congress in 1980 to lead the nation in commemorating the Holocaust and to raise private funds for and build the United States Holocaust ...

Join Holocaust survivors for live First Person conversations as they share their experiences in their own words. In its 25th year, this signature program features an hour-long discussion with a ...

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 ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country’s memorial to the ...

These resources are intended for research being conducted at the Museum, however, some databases are available to offsite researchers. Those sites are labeled. The following databases index diverse ...

The Museum’s Database of Holocaust Survivor and Victim Names contains records on people persecuted during World War II under the Nazi regime including Jews, Roma and Sinti, Poles and other Slavic ...

Resource Center staff is available to provide guidance and answer your questions on the Museum’s second floor Sunday through Thursday. The Museum is the US repository of the ITS Digital Archive from ...

The Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide conducts and supports policy-relevant research to advance efforts to prevent and respond to mass atrocities. Learn more about the Center’s work ...

In December 1993, four months before the violence began, General Roméo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations peacekeeping forces—known as the UN Assistance Mission in Rwanda—warned his superiors ...

In the aftermath of World War I, Germans struggled to understand their country’s uncertain future. Citizens faced poor economic conditions, skyrocketing unemployment, political instability, and ...