The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites applications for the 2026 Joint Workshop: Towards an Integrated History ...

Because the Holocaust involved people in different roles and situations living in countries across Europe over a period of time—from Nazi Germany in the 1930s to German-occupied Hungary in 1944—one ...

In 1994, Rwanda’s population of 7 million was composed of three ethnic groups: Hutu (approximately 85 percent), Tutsi (14 percent) and Twa (1 percent). From April–July 1994, between 500,000 and one ...

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, ...

Norah Bagarinka, a Tutsi, was targeted during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. She survived, as many Tutsi did, by running and hiding for more than 100 days. Transcript When we reached the roadblock, I ...

A dedicated community of emerging philanthropists and leaders, the Next Generation supports the Museum through public outreach and fundraising events. Join this dynamic group in Chicago, New York, or ...

Exploring Night as Literature: Bearing Witness to History Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, has become a standard text used in many classes to both teach about the history and human impact of the Holocaust ...

Staff at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies are subject matter experts with backgrounds in a wide variety of disciplines from history and Jewish studies to ...

Definitions are important. One of the Museum’s guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust is to define the term “Holocaust.” This short activity helps students understand the definition of the term.

This one-day lesson provides an introduction to the Holocaust by defining the term and highlighting the story of one Holocaust survivor, Gerda Weissmann.

From Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945, the Nazis imprisoned millions of people in tens of thousands of sites throughout Germany and German-occupied Europe.

This video explains what propaganda is and how Hitler and the Nazis used it to exclude Jews and other groups from German society. They relied on a variety of advertising techniques, like catchy ...