An Annual Commemoration The United Nations has designated January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, as a time to remember the six ...
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide seeks applicants from early career scholars for its Genocide and Atrocity Prevention Research ...
WASHINGTON, DC – On the second anniversary of the single deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum mourns the victims of October 7. We must never ...
Today at the Museum, as at all federal buildings, our flags are flown at half staff. We do so each year in remembrance of the lives lost in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This year it is also in memory ...
WASHINGTON — The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today announced a $2.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. This grant builds on a 2022 $2.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment to support ...
WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is outraged by the desecration of the memorial site to the victims of the Jedwabne massacre and the violent disruption of the commemoration ...
WASHINGTON – Within days, two antisemitic terrorist attacks in the U.S. have cast in stark relief the outcome of the normalization of hatred of the Jewish people. On May 21, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah ...
“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 ...
WASHINGTON, DC - Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s determination that genocide is being perpetrated in Darfur by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias is a somber acknowledgment of the ...
WASHINGTON, DC – One year ago, Hamas terrorists orchestrated an unconscionable attack on Israel, resulting in the single deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. More than 1,200 men, women, and ...
“Every day, month, and year there are fewer and fewer Rohingya left in Burma. Without action, soon there will be none.” — Tun Khin, president of Burmese Rohingya Organization UK August 25, 2024, ...
For months, advocates have been warning that an assault on the city of El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, could happen at any time. That attack would bring a new degree of horror to an already brutal, ...