American soldiers were unprepared for what they discovered in the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany in April 1945: piles ...

Josie Traum was born Josiane Aizenberg in Brussels, Belgium on March 21, 1939 into a traditional Jewish home. Her father, Jacques “Jack” Aizenberg, worked as a tailor. Her mother, Fajga “Fanny” ...

USHMM Library: Memorial Books DS134.66.B43 F33 1994, v. 1-2. Provenance: Bound photocopies of materials obtained by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Library staff from Mr. Jeffrey K. Cymbler of the ...

Leo Ullman survived the Holocaust in hiding with strangers as a toddler—in Amsterdam, the same city where Anne Frank hid and was later discovered. His parents ...

My father and I left the SS Washington, the ship we traveled on from Le Havre, France, to New York City to start our new life in the New World. We said goodbye to Lady Liberty and proceeded off the ...

Holocaust survivor Joël Nommick was born into danger in December 1942 in the midst of World War II. Just months earlier, Joël’s father had been arrested and taken away from the family. Authorities ...

After I survived the Holocaust in Poland, my mother, father, sister, and I moved to England, where we were generously accepted as we tried to move past the terrible years of World War II. We were ...

Non, rien de rien, Non, je ne regrette rien. (No, nothing at all, No, I do not regret anything.) —Édith Piaf There have been many moments in my adult life when I have had to make a decision. Sometimes ...

The symposium inspires service academy cadets and midshipmen to draw upon lessons of the past to develop innovative means of preventing mass atrocities in the future. As future military officers ...

This three-minute video explains Holocaust denial and the different forms it takes. Transcript Holocaust denial is a form of antisemitism. The only reason to deny the Holocaust is to inculcate and ...

Germany skillfully promoted the Olympics with colorful posters and magazine spreads. Athletic imagery drew a link between Nazi Germany and ancient Greece. These portrayals symbolized the Nazi racial ...