WASHINGTON – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum mourns the death of His Holiness Pope Francis. In 2019 Pope Francis announced that the Vatican would open the archival record of Pope Pius XII ...

The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time to remember the six million Jewish ...

The Museum offers a wide selection of online resources about the Holocaust and other genocides and mass atrocities. These tools provide a variety of ways to learn and teach about this important ...

“If a conflict breaks out in South Sudan now, it will be like no other. The destruction and suffering will be unprecedented.” — Ambassador Ismail Wais, IGAD Special Envoy for South Sudan, from remarks ...

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Sara Bloomfield: It's spring, and every week thousands of students from schools across the nation are visiting the Museum. This is important at all times, but especially these times with shocking ...

“The timing of our escape was indeed a miracle,” remembers Holocaust survivor Frank Cohn about his arrival in New York City on October 30, 1938. Frank and his mother got out of Nazi Germany just weeks ...

Esther was born in Adelsheim, Germany on April 3, 1937. Adelsheim was a very small town, with only 10 Jewish families living in the area. Her parents, Katie (née Lemburger) and Adolf Rosenfeld, had ...