United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Special Exhibition: The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936
On display through August 17, the exhibition explores the issues surrounding the games and features a torch from the 1936 torch run and gold medals won by Jesse Owens and others. Read the press release and watch a short video about the exhibition.

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.

Father Patrick Desbois
In cooperation with the Museum, Father Desbois is leading a historic undertaking to locate every unknown mass grave and site at which Jews were killed in the Ukraine during the Holocaust. Read a New York Times article, listen to the podcast, and learn more about his forthcoming book.

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 Holocaust archive in the world, and find out how to submit a request for information.

USHMM @ iTunes U
The Museum offers audio, video, and text documents for learning about the Holocaust, antisemitism and genocide prevention via iTunes U, a dedicated section of the iTunes Store offering free education content.

More What's New

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

In examining how the New York Times could have missed—or dismissed—the significance of the annihilation of Europe's Jews, Laurel Leff found many universal lessons for contemporary journalists.

A student of both historical and contemporary Islam, Hillel Fradkin takes a long view in searching for reasons why Jews are at the center of radical Islam's view of the West.

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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Museum Issues Statement on Recent Events in Sudan. Read the press release

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

When the Nazi German army captured his home town of Bialystok, Poland, seven year-old Leo Melamed fled with his parents, eventually coming to the U.S. Melamed later played a leading role in the creation of the Museum's Committee on Conscience. Listen to him speak, as a survivor, about the importance of the Museum's efforts to prevent genocide today.

Sudan expert Roger Winter, has documented the events leading to the destruction of Abyei, a North-South border town. He discusses how in mid-May the Sudanese military burnt this town to the ground.

Julie Flint, co-author with Alex de Waal of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War, discusses the Darfur rebel attack on the Sudanese city of Omdurman.

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.