Josef Kohout, more widely known as Heinz Heger, was the subject of The Men with the Pink Triangle, the first published account of a gay survivor of the Nazi camps. Dr. Klaus Müller, the Museum’s ...

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A controversial move at the Games was the benching of two American Jewish runners, Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller. Both had trained for the 4x100-meter relay, but on the day before the event, they ...

Professor Christopher R Browning received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. During his fellowship at the Museum, he was the Frank Porter Graham Professor of ...

In March 2015, staff from the Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide traveled to Burma to investigate threats facing the Rohingya people, a Muslim minority that has been the ...

Professor Peter Longerich received a Ph.D. in history and an M.A. in history and sociology from the University of Munich. During his fellowship at the Museum, he was Professor of Modern GermanDr ...

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 ...

Most episodes of mass atrocities over the course of history have been perpetrated by states. As a result, most scholarship on mass atrocities has focused on understanding why states choose to attack ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide released a report in November 2021, “To Make Us Slowly Disappear”: The Chinese Government’s Assault on ...

Along with our chairs, Sharon and Allan Koltin, we hope you can join us for an inspiring event and hear how your support allows us to teach why the Holocaust happened and the importance of confronting ...

Explore the pages below to learn more about individuals and their experiences during the Holocaust.

Exploring Night as Literature: Bearing Witness to History Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, has become a standard text used in many classes to both teach about the history and human impact of the Holocaust ...