For two and a half years of her early childhood, Louise Lawrence-Israëls never once played outside or felt the grass under her feet. Louise was born into a ...

Explore the vast differences in how ordinary people displayed great courage or willful complicity in the face of devastating violence during the rise of ...

“Every German athlete should voluntarily participate in strengthening the military might of the German people.” —Hans von Tschammer und Osten, Reich Sports Office Director, April 30, 1933 Hitler ...

These short educational explainer videos explore key topics and themes of Holocaust history.

2. Warsaw Jews demonstrate against Hitlerism, Fascism and attacks on Jewish schools. II linking the need to fight fascism on the war front with the need to fight racism on the home front. ... many saw ...

Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War Below, view excerpts from this new PBS documentary about Americans Martha and Waitstill Sharp, who planned a daring and secret rescue mission in 1939 to save scores ...

From February 6 to February 16, 1936, Germany hosted the Winter Olympics at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps. Yielding to international Olympic leaders' insistence on "fair play," German ...

Voices on Antisemitism features a broad range of perspectives about antisemitism and hatred. This podcast featured dozens of guests over its ten-year run. Listen to selected episodes below or view the ...

Pursuing Justice for Mass Atrocities: A Handbook for Victim Groups provides guidance on what victim groups can do to advance justice efforts during and in the aftermath of genocide and related crimes ...

Claude Lanzmann spent 12 years locating survivors, perpetrators, eyewitnesses, and scholars for his nine-and-a-half-hour film Shoah, released in 1985. Deliberately rejecting the use of archival ...

Edna Friedberg, Ph.D., is a historian in the Museum’s William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education. Nazis seem to be everywhere these days. I don’t mean self-proclaimed neo-Nazis. I’m ...