As a young Jewish child, Joan Da Silva had to move from family to family to stay safe from the Nazis in German-occupied Poland, usually without her parents. She ...

The Programs on Religion and the Holocaust fosters scholarship, teaching, and reflection on the complex ethical, theological, and historical questions raised by the Holocaust.

In November 2020, a brutal civil war broke out in the Tigray region of Ethiopia between the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and its allies and the Tigray Defense Force (TDF). Approximately ...

Delphin Rukumbuzi Ntanyoma is a PhD candidate at the Erasmus University Rotterdam/Institute of Social Studies. He is an author of Behind the Scenes of ‘Banyamulenge Military’: Momentum, Myth, and ...

My mother came from a very observant Orthodox Jewish family. Her grandfather was an Orthodox rabbi in a small town in Austria-Hungary (today Prešov, Slovakia). Her father graduated from a yeshiva in ...

WASHINGTON – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is outraged at the horrific antisemitic terrorist attack outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., that claimed the lives of two ...

Ten years after the self-described Islamic State’s (IS) assault on ethno-religious minority groups in Iraq and Syria—and its commission of genocide against the Yezidi community—justice and repair for ...

On May 13–14, high-level officials are convening in Berlin to discuss the future of United Nations (UN) peace operations. Perhaps more than ever in its seven-plus decade history, the future of UN ...

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 ...

For the First Time, Public Receives Digital Access to These Materials WASHINGTON, DC -- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has made available online the full sound recordings of the War ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum strongly condemns Russia’s outrageous attack on Ukraine and is deeply concerned about threats to civilians and loss of life. In justifying ...

Erika Eckstut discusses the difficulties and dangers of life in the Czernowitz ghetto in what was then Romania (and today is western Ukraine). Erika was an adventurous teenager and her father went to ...