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 ...

In these troubling times, amid the continuing surge in antisemitism—tragically including deadly violence—our community stands together to support the Museum’s critical mission. Join us to honor ...

On August 1, 1936, Hitler opened the XIth Olympiad. Musical fanfares directed by the famous composer Richard Strauss announced the dictator's arrival to the largely German crowd. Hundreds of athletes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Austrian Robert Fein, who was of Jewish descent, won the gold medal in weightlifting (lightweight class). August 2, 1936.

As a token gesture to mollify the West, German authorities allowed the half-Jewish fencer Helene Mayer to represent Germany in Berlin. She had been studying at Mills College in California. No other ...