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, 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 ...

Isak Danon was born on June 24, 1929 in Split, a small town on the Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia (today Croatia) with an active Jewish life. Isak’s parents ran a small dry goods store, and Isak helped ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Museum welcomes President Trump's new appointments to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Ariel Simon Abergel, DC Jonathan Burkan, NY Robert David Garson, FL Tila Falic, FL Barbara ...

“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 ...

As of 2024, more than 5 billion people—over half of the world’s population—use social media. The immense popularity of these digital networks means that social media is the way that many, if not most ...