American soldiers were unprepared for what they discovered in the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany in April 1945: piles of bodies, walking skeletons on the ...

The eruption of neo-Nazism and White Supremacy across the country has exposed the public to symbols, terms, and ideology drawn directly from Nazi Germany and Holocaust-era fascist movements. The ...

USHMM Library: Memorial Books DS134.66.B43 F33 1994, v. 1-2. Provenance: Bound photocopies of materials obtained by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Library staff from Mr. Jeffrey K. Cymbler of the ...

Leo Ullman survived the Holocaust in hiding with strangers as a toddler—in Amsterdam, the same city where Anne Frank hid and was later discovered. His parents ...

The US Congress established Days of Remembrance as the nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust. The Museum leads the national ceremony in the US Capitol and encourages observances throughout ...

The 2025 Silberman Seminar will explore Jewish experiences during World War II in eastern Europe’s borderlands. Focusing on territories occupied by the Nazis and the Soviets in the wake of the Molotov ...

France’s collaborationist Vichy Regime rescinded the citizenship rights of thousands of Jews and others soon after it took power in 1940. The policy’s stated aim was to give France “back to the French ...

This 1,100-square-foot traveling exhibition is based on the exhibition that opened in 2018 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The Americans and the Holocaust traveling ...

Peter Gorog was born Péter Grünwald in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, on March 10, 1941. Peter’s father, Árpád Grünwald, worked as an office manager at the Franklin Publishing House. His mother, ...

Between 1939 and 1945, as part of their efforts to eliminate Jews from the European continent, the Nazi dictatorship removed people from the Reich they considered unworthy of being citizens because ...