Since 1982, the Museum has organized and led the national Days of Remembrance ceremony in the US Capitol with Holocaust survivors, liberators, members of Congress, White House officials, the ...
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies’ Emerging Scholars Program supports the publication of Annual Fellows’ first books. The program provides a $2,000 subvention to ...
Many survivors of the Rwandan genocide lost their entire families—spouses, parents, children, extended families, and friends—and have suffered complex health problems, like HIV/AIDS, as a result of ...
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 ...
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 ...
There were short-lived boycott efforts in Great Britain, France, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, and the Netherlands. German Socialists and Communists in exile voiced their opposition to the Games through ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Museum’s exhibitions are supported by the Lester Robbins and Sheila Johnson Robbins Traveling and Special Exhibitions Fund, established in 1990.
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