A new exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum contextualizes American action — and inaction — during the Nazi rise to power. A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor says it's about time.

At 20 years of age, my father was captured during the Battle of the Bulge and, along with 350 other American GIs —many of ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is also America at its best — open, diverse, pluralistic, fighting for human dignity and decency, confronting the hatreds that resulted in the ...

However, museum planners never intended to create an anti-German institution, but to firmly anchor in American life what they believed to be universal lessons of the Holocaust.

However, the Naples Holocaust Museum did not open until 2001, so Spain Sr. donated it to the local American Legion post. Now, the Nordhausen flag will be at the museum on loan indefinitely. "It's ...

A glance at the January/February issue of Humanities: The Holocaust in American consciousnessEdward T. Linenthal, a professor of religious studies at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, looks ...

The historical American Girl doll Rebecca Rubin is a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived on the Lower East Side in 1914. (Courtesy Museum of Jewish Heritage) ...

In 1993, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) published the results of a study regarding what U.S. adults and students in the 10th, 11th and 12th grades knew about the Holocaust. 4 And in 2018, the ...

American Holocaust education, in this museum and nearly everywhere else, never ends with Jews alive today. Instead it ends by segueing to other genocides, or to other minorities’ suffering.

The American Nazi Party had threatened to march in Skokie just a few years before, inspiring a landmark First Amendment case and, eventually, the founding of the Holocaust Museum.