The monument commemorates victims of the massacre carried out on July 10, 1941, when Polish residents of Jedwabne, a small town located in then German-occupied Poland, participated in the murder of ...

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When eight-year-old Emanuel “Manny” Mandel and his mother escaped German-occupied Budapest in summer 1944, their tense journey did not go as expected. Nazi and ...

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Bowing to international pressure, the German Olympic Committee invited German Jewish high jumper Gretel Bergmann to compete at pre-Olympic qualifying meets. Returning to Germany from England where she ...

The collection consists of three photograph albums and a Nazi swastika pennant. ... Nazi swastika pennant that was inserted inside one of the photo albums George Bernard Niewenhous ...

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 ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide released a report in November 2021, “To Make Us Slowly Disappear”: The Chinese Government’s Assault on ...

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, ...

Why should we talk about women’s experiences of genocide? Genocide is defined as the commission of a prohibited act with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or ...

After a year of mass atrocities against Tigrayan and other ethnic groups in Ethiopia, the immediate risk facing civilians is expanding to new areas.