Effective ways to teach historical understanding and promote literacy goals Holocaust literature can immerse students in the past, helping them consider how the ...

The Museum offers a wide selection of online resources about the Holocaust and other genocides and mass atrocities. These tools provide a variety of ways to learn and teach about this important ...

Summer Graduate Student Research Fellowships support early-career graduate students in three-month residencies at the Mandel Center to provide them the opportunity to test ideas, share research ...

This audio tour describes the Hall of Witness and the Hall of Remembrance at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and is intended for visitors who are blind or have low vision.

After the war many ordinary Germans and Europeans claimed that they were “not involved” in Nazi crimes. 1 The construction of such postwar memories—and abdication of any responsibility for what ...

Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration & Complicity in the Holocaust addresses one of the central questions about the Holocaust: How was it possible? The central role of Hitler and other Nazi Party ...

How was the Holocaust possible? No one questions the decisive role of German chancellor Adolf Hitler and other leaders of the Nazi regime (1933–1945). Less well understood is the dependence of these ...

The Simon-Skjodt Center reviewed research about selected atrocity prevention tools to help policy makers develop effective responses to atrocity crises and help inform ongoing and future research.

Inspired by the teachings of Mao Zedong, the Khmer Rouge came to espouse a radical agrarian ideology based on strict one-party rule, rejection of urban and Western ideas, and abolition of private ...

Irene Weiss was born in 1930 in Bótrágy, Czechoslovakia. She, her parents, and her five siblings were forced into a ghetto in Munkács before being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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 ...

The report seeks to improve our collective understanding of China’s ongoing repressive policies in the predominantly Uyghur province of Xinjiang in western China. It finds that, given the available ...