WASHINGTON – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum mourns the death of His Holiness Pope Francis. In 2019 Pope Francis announced that the Vatican would open the archival record of Pope Pius XII ...

In 1942, members of the Schwarz family packed their belongings, hid them in the attic for safekeeping, and left their home. Like many Jews who received ...

The Museum offers a wide selection of online resources about the Holocaust and other genocides and mass atrocities. These tools provide a variety of ways to learn and teach about this important ...

The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time to remember the six million Jewish ...

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Ruth Elenberg Eisenberg was born Rachel Sygal Epstein on April 15, 1935 in Skałat, Poland (today Skalat, Ukraine). Her father Hersch owned a tannery, and her mother Fayga was a homemaker. Ruth had ...

American Witnesses shares stories of men and women serving in the US Army who encountered the Nazi camps at the end of World War II. This exhibition is located in the Gonda Education Center. It is ...

Julie Keefer was born Jula Weinstock on April 19, 1941, in Lwów, Poland (present day: Lviv, Ukraine). Her father, Herman, was a tinsmith. Her mother, Sala (née Eisen), was an opera singer and ...

“If a conflict breaks out in South Sudan now, it will be like no other. The destruction and suffering will be unprecedented.” — Ambassador Ismail Wais, IGAD Special Envoy for South Sudan, from remarks ...

The David M. Rubenstein National Institute for Holocaust Documentation at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum continues to actively seek donations of original artifacts, documents, photographs ...