Elie Wiesel, the Museum’s founding chairman, was deported to Auschwitz with his family in May 1944. He was selected for ...

For years, they could not speak about the Holocaust. Teenagers Ruth Cohen, Steven Fenves, and Irene Weiss were deported in ...

Doris Bergen is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies in the Department of History and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. A Fellow of ...

The Permanent Exhibition opens with images of concentration camps taken by US Army soldiers in 1945. These scenes shocked even battle-hardened troops and informed the world of the horrors of Nazism ...

Behind Every Name a Story consists of essays describing survivors’ experiences during the Holocaust, written by survivors or their families. The essays, accompanying photographs, and other materials, ...

Vladimir Solonari received a Ph.D. in history at Moscow State University in Russia and a B.A. cum laude in history at Moldova State University in Chisinau. During his tenure at the Museum, he was ...

Dr. Alioune Dème is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Cheikh Anta Diop University (Senegal). He earned his PhD from Rice University in Houston, Texas in 2004. His dissertation is entitled ...

John-Paul Himka is a professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta, Canada. He received a Ph.D. in history and a B.A. with high honors in Byzantine-Slavonic studies ...

Invitation to the annual National Days of Remembrance gathering in Washington, DC (includes attendance at the Ceremony in the US Capitol and the National Tribute Dinner). 10% Discount in the Museum ...

“Mapping Transnational Holocaust Discourses and Historicizing Local Knowledge in Post-Soviet Lithuanian Educational Reforms.” Dr. Christine Beresniova recently completed her PhD at Indiana University, ...

Karen Remmler, Mary Lyon Professor of Humanities at Mount Holyoke College, received her PhD in German literature from Washington University in 1989. Most recently, her interdisciplinary research in ...

Michelle Kelso received an M.A. in Russian and East European studies and a Master’s in public affairs from the University of Texas, and a B.A. in French from the University of Iowa. During her ...