The Museum's collections database contains more than 270,000 records, including: Photos and albums—Images of life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Personal stories—Interviews, home movies, memoirs, and diaries. Films—Historical footage and …

These short videos explore antisemitism today and how it has persisted for thousands of years. Antisemitism means prejudice against or hatred of Jews. In the United States, antisemitic incidents continue to rise yearly. Hatred of Jews can take …

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum teaches millions of people each year about the dangers of unchecked hatred and the need to prevent genocide.

From April 17, 1975, to January 7, 1979, the Khmer Rouge perpetrated one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century. Nearly two million people died under the rule of the fanatical Communist movement, which imposed a ruthless agenda of forced …

What was the Holocaust? The Museum’s guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust recommend educators define the term “Holocaust” for students.. The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored, persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945 across Europe and North Africa. The height of the persecution and murder occurred during ...

The Museum’s Database of Holocaust Survivor and Victim Names contains records on people persecuted during World War II under the Nazi regime including Jews, Roma and Sinti, Poles and other Slavic peoples, Soviet prisoners of war, persons with disabilities, political prisoners, trade union leaders, "subversive" artists, those Catholic and Lutheran clergy who were seen as opponents of the ...

Is the Museum interested in collecting any more material? The Museum continues to actively seek donations of original artifacts, documents, photographs, films, music, oral testimonies, and artwork to document the events of the Holocaust, from Jewish and non-Jewish victims, survivors, and eyewitnesses, who suffered discrimination, displacement, and persecution by …

NARRATOR: Paris, 1900. More than fifty million people from around the world visited the Universal Exposition—a world’s fair intended to promote greater understanding and tolerance among nations, and to celebrate the new century, new inventions, exciting progress.

Adalbert Berkovits, photographed in 1942 in Simleu-Silvaniei, Romania. Two years later, he was killed at Auschwitz. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Elly Berkovits Gross

The Chinese government’s campaign against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang is multi-faceted and systematic. Core strategies of the campaign include identity-based persecution, mass detention, surveillance, enforced sterilizations, forced labor, and forced assimilation.