United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Special Exhibition: The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936
On display through August 24, 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."

German scholar Matthias Künztel warns that there is a shared totalitarian vision between Nazis and today's radical Islamists.

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.

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".

International law expert William Schabas discusses the decision of the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court to request an arrest warrant for President Bashir of Sudan. The Sudanese president is charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

When David Ngaruri Kenney fled persecution in Kenya he had no idea that his quest for asylum would take years. He and his lawyer, Philip Schrag, co-authors of Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America, discuss the many hurdles they faced in this quest.

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.