In this January 2026 report, Genocide and the Courts: A Brief Review of Jurisprudence on the Crime of Genocide from Nuremberg to Today, Ambassador David Scheffer narrates how courts around the world, ...

Andrew “Andy” Jampoler was born Andrzej Jampoler on January 15, 1942 in Lwów, German-occupied Poland (present day: Lviv, Ukraine) to Karol and Hanka (Awin) Jampoler. Andy’s father Karol attended the ...

When Frieda Belinfante’s home country of the Netherlands is invaded by the Nazis in 1940, she leaves her flourishing music career to join the resistance movement. In defiance of the Nazi regime, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the April 2021 death of its president of 30 years, Idriss Déby, Chad has faced widespread instability marked by broken transition promises, protests, and attacks on people affiliated with ...

The essential premise of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum since its founding is that the Holocaust—the state-sponsored, systematic attempt to murder every Jew in Europe—was a watershed ...