The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum welcomes President Trump’s appointment of Jeffrey Miller of Florida as Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the Museum’s governing boar ...

Along with Dinner Chairs Nancy Laben & Jonathan Feiger and Cinthia & Horacio Rozanski, we hope you can join us for an inspiring evening and hear how your support allows us to teach why the Holocaust ...

WASHINGTON –The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has acquired an original copy of Captain America Comics No 1, one of the most culturally significant comic books in American history. Published ...

For two weeks in August 1936, Adolf Hitler's Nazi dictatorship camouflaged its racist, militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics. Minimizing its antisemitic agenda and plans for ...

The Museum’s exhibitions are supported by the Lester Robbins and Sheila Johnson Robbins Traveling and Special Exhibitions Fund, established in 1990.

The Museum is free and open every day. It is closed on Yom Kippur and Christmas Day. The Museum building is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. All exhibitions and the Museum shop close at 5:20 p.m. The ...

Milton Green (left), captain of the Harvard University track team, took first place in the 110-meter high hurdles in regional pre-Olympic trials. His teammate, Norman Cahners, also Jewish, qualified ...

After Peter Feigl's parents were deported from southwestern France to Auschwitz, he received help from the Jewish underground to get near enough to the Swiss border to attempt escape. Peter lay on the ...

Professional boxing was among the few integrated sports in the United States, and prize-fighter Joe Louis was a hero to American Blacks. On June 19, 1936, after rain postponed the fight a day, the ...

With false French papers, Rose-Helene Spreiregen, age 12, and her grandmother fled German-occupied Paris on an overnight train. “Make believe you are sleeping. I will take care of it,” Rose-Helene ...

“I'm afraid the Nazis have succeeded with their propaganda. First, the Nazis have run the Games on a lavish scale never before experienced, and this has appealed to the athletes. Second, the Nazis ...

Ayana Touval was born Ayana Horovic in Zagreb, Yugoslavia on March 4, 1939. Her father, Ernest, managed Nashichka, a successful timber company. Her mother, Herta, was a piano teacher. She had been a ...