Nathan Spitzer (now Nat Shaffir) was born on December 26, 1936, in Iaşi, Romania, to Anton and Fany Spitzer. In 1924, Anton and his two older brothers moved from the region of Transylvania to Bucium, ...

Voices on Antisemitism features a broad range of perspectives about antisemitism and hatred. This podcast featured dozens of guests over its ten-year run. Listen to selected episodes below or view the ...

Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the risk of mass atrocities has increased for vulnerable groups, including ethnic and religious minorities. Afghanistan currently ranks ...

Winter of 1942 was severe. In the Drohobycz ghetto the Germans had decided to exterminate the Jews. The ways to achieve this were by starving or freezing them to death. The food rations were extremely ...

Claude Lanzmann spent 12 years locating survivors, perpetrators, eyewitnesses, and scholars for his nine-and-a-half-hour film Shoah, released in 1985. Deliberately rejecting the use of archival ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is outraged by Hamas’s unconscionable attack on Israel, killing hundreds, and targeting Israeli citizens for kidnapping, including a Holocaust survivor, ...

One sentence in a speech by FBI Director James Comey at the Museum’s annual dinner on April 15 has triggered a wide-ranging debate about complicity in Poland and Hungary during the Holocaust. Although ...

The Museum welcomes President Trump's new appointments to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Ariel Simon Abergel, DC Jonathan Burkan, NY Robert David Garson, FL Tila Falic, FL Barbara ...

Ethiopian civilians face a dire risk of mass atrocities as the country’s civil war—now more than a year old—intensifies. The news of the withdrawal of Tigrayan rebel forces from the Afar and Amhara ...

Edna Friedberg, Ph.D., is a historian in the Museum’s William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education. Nazis seem to be everywhere these days. I don’t mean self-proclaimed neo-Nazis. I’m ...

Pursuing Justice for Mass Atrocities: A Handbook for Victim Groups provides guidance on what victim groups can do to advance justice efforts during and in the aftermath of genocide and related crimes ...

Why was man created alone? Is it not true that the creator could have created the whole of humanity? But man was created alone to teach you that whoever kills one life kills the world entire, and ...