The Amos S. Deinard Memorial Chair in Jewish History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities “There are No Jews in Morocco, Only Moroccan Subjects”: Mohammed V’s Response to Vichy’s Anti-Jewish ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide (SCPG) seeks applications for a fellowship to assess risks of mass atrocities in Mozambique. The Early ...

It is recommended to conduct a 30- to 40-minute discussion with students soon after their visit to help them recall what they have learned and to reflect upon the Holocaust and its implications. The ...

In 2004 Jerry Fowler, former staff director of the Museum's Committee on Conscience, traveled to Chad to meet refugees who were driven from their homes in Sudan, their villages torched, and their ...

In this episode, Chief Acquisitions Curator Judy Cohen shares items from the recently acquired Katz Ehrenthal Collection. Judy explains how this collection of antisemitic materials, some around 500 ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum mourns the passing of Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who helped smuggle hundreds of Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust. As ...

Beate Meyer is Senior Researcher at the Institute of the History of German Jews in Hamburg, Germany. She received a Ph.D. in political science, and M.A. and B.A. equivalents in political science, ...

Dr. Chigbo Anyaduba received his PhD in Literature from the University of Manitoba (Canada), as well as a Master’s degree in English from Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria). As the J.B. and Maurice ...

Professor Matthew Hockenos is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Skidmore College in New York. He received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in history from New York University and a B.A.

The first day of Chanukah fell on December 23, just 42 days after the infamous “Night of Broken Glass” (Kristallnacht). That night most of Vienna’s synagogues were torched, Jewish stores were looted ...

Tara Kohn is a Ph.D. candidate in art history at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also received an M.A. in art history. For her Joyce and Arthur Schechter Fellowship, Ms. Kohn conducted ...

In 1938, on the eve of World War II, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote that "a piece of paper with a stamp on it" was "the difference between life and death." The Unwanted is the intimate ...