Effective ways to teach historical understanding and promote literacy goals Holocaust literature can immerse students in the past, helping them consider how the ...

TEXT ON SCREEN: From Citizens to Outcasts, 1933-1938 NARRATOR: Before the Nazis assumed power, Jews enjoyed all rights of citizenship in Germany. After 1933, the German government gradually excluded ...

Genocide and mass atrocities are commonly preceded and accompanied by “dangerous speech”—hate speech that has the potential to influence people to accept, condone, or commit violence against targeted ...

After Nazi Germany occupied Budapest, Erika Taubner and her parents buried their prized possessions in the basement of their apartment building in Budapest, including this four-leaf clover necklace.

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum deeply mourns the passing of Benjamin Ferencz, Nuremberg prosecutor and advocate for victims of the Holocaust.

The Sobibor Perpetrator Collection provides an unprecedented view into the operations of one of the five killing centers Nazi Germany established for the sole purpose of murdering Jews. Created by the ...

After the war many ordinary Germans and Europeans claimed that they were “not involved” in Nazi crimes. 1 The construction of such postwar memories—and abdication of any responsibility for what ...

How was the Holocaust possible? No one questions the decisive role of German chancellor Adolf Hitler and other leaders of the Nazi regime (1933–1945). Less well understood is the dependence of these ...

Inspired by the teachings of Mao Zedong, the Khmer Rouge came to espouse a radical agrarian ideology based on strict one-party rule, rejection of urban and Western ideas, and abolition of private ...

The report seeks to improve our collective understanding of China’s ongoing repressive policies in the predominantly Uyghur province of Xinjiang in western China. It finds that, given the available ...

This educational module aims to help students think more deeply about what it means to be an outsider. Using material from the Museum’s Voices on Antisemitism, the module: Illustrates the existence ...

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, at a time when the world could not bear to remember, Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel could not bear to forget.