United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Genocide Prevention Task Force (GPTF)
Co-chaired by Madeleine K. Albright and William S. Cohen, the Genocide Prevention Task Force released its final report on December 8, 2008.

Museum Launches New Learning Environment in Second Life
Visit the Museum’s new virtual world learning environment in Second Life, Witnessing History – Kristallnacht: The November 1938 Pogroms.

Museum launches World is Witness in Google Earth
This new “geoblog” opens a window into the lives of people affected by genocide and its long-term consequences. Learn more about Congo and Rwanda, and read the most recent entries from a Museum visit to South Sudan.

International Tracing Service
The Museum is responding to survivors' requests for information from the ITS archive. Read more, learn about the opening of the largest closed Holocaust archive in the world, and find out how to submit a request for information.

More What's New

Listen to the Museum's podcast series "Voices on Antisemitism."

Martin Goldsmith recalls how music gave his parents some measure of shelter in Nazi Germany. For a brief period, they performed under the protection of an all-Jewish orchestra, set up by the Nazis.

Tad Stahnke believes that discrimination can exist in any society, and affect any individual. Everyone has an interest--and a responsibility--to confront violence and prejudice in our communities.

Nobel Laureate and Museum Founding Chairman, Elie Wiesel, speaks with the Museum about contemporary antisemitism, memory, and the memorial role of museums. Read the AAM article (PDF).
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The Museum expresses concern about the deteriorating situation in the Eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Learn more. Visit World is Witness to learn more from our "geoblog."

Listen to the Museum's podcast series "Voices on Genocide Prevention".

The Museum's John Heffernan and U.S. Institute of Peace's Lawrence Woocher discuss the newly released report of the Genocide Prevention Task Force. The Task Force was convened by the Museum, USIP and the American Academy of Diplomacy.

Despite enormous suffering and loss, Rose Mapendo found the courage to forgive her jailors and became the inspiration for a new organization, Mapendo International, that provides emergency help to refugees.

Hitler's Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism, by Kevin P. Spicer, introduces the "brown priests" who participated in the Nazi movement, examines their motives, and explores the consequences of their political activism.

Now you can search the online catalog and watch many of the films in the Museum's Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, including clips of Nuremberg rallies, Nazi racial science, prewar Jewish life, and more.