Congress created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims of the Holocaust ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON –The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has acquired an original copy of Captain America Comics No 1, one of the most culturally significant comic books in American history. Published ...

The Museum’s shop offers a wide variety of items, including books, gift items, and souvenirs. Visit to find a keepsake, a book to help you learn more about what you saw at the Museum, or something ...

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 ...

The Museum’s exhibitions are supported by the Lester Robbins and Sheila Johnson Robbins Traveling and Special Exhibitions Fund, established in 1990.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With false French papers, Rose-Helene Spreiregen, age 12, and her grandmother fled German-occupied Paris on an overnight train. “Make believe you are sleeping. I will take care of it,” Rose-Helene ...

The Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and the William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education are pleased to invite applications for the Bella and ...

Ayana Touval was born Ayana Horovic in Zagreb, Yugoslavia on March 4, 1939. Her father, Ernest, managed Nashichka, a successful timber company. Her mother, Herta, was a piano teacher. She had been a ...