Holocaust Memorial Museum

Head of Anne Frank Educational Center questions Yad Vashem's Germany expansion, drawing backlash

The Israeli-born educator warned that Yad Vashem's planned branches in Germany could face controversy over the institution's ties to the Israeli government.

People view the exhibits at Yad Vashem on April 13, 2026.
Exterior view of the new Yad Vashem Education Center in Munich.

Yad Vashem chooses Germany for first overseas education centers

Lebanese banker Antoun Sehnaoui and his Jewish partner Morgan Ortagus seen at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, April 14, 2026.

Lebanese banker receives hate comments over large Holocaust museum donation

 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum acquires rare World War II-era Captain America comics


Doctors planned protest against Israel inside US Holocaust Museum

The event was subsequently canceled, per an announcement on social media platform X

Tower of Faces at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Portuguese Holocaust museum marks anniversary of Kristallnacht

The ceremony featured the lighting of a memorial flame in front of 500 students from schools across Portugal who took part in the event.

 Michael Rothwell the director of the Holocaust and the Jewish museums in Porto (left) and Sebastião Feyo (right) president of the Porto municipal assembly, with the school students

Nazi medical atrocities similar to Hamas crimes, have modern implications

A report by a leading medical journey says that all health professionals must study the history of the central role taken by doctors in antisemitic, racist and barbarous crimes.

Richard Baer, Josef Mengele, and Rudolf Hoss - all perpetrators of Nazi health experiments

Harvey ‘Bud’ Meyerhoff, chair of US Holocaust Memorial Museum at its founding, dies at 96

Harvey earned a degree at the University of Wisconsin and served in the Navy near the end of World War II, returning home to join the family business.

 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

US unearths historic Holocaust footage of Nazi death train liberation

Survivors, mostly women and children, can be seen in the photos wearing their normal clothes, rather than striped outfits.

 Prisoners from an evacuation train from Bergen-Belsen pose next to a railroad car in Magdeburg.  This photo was probably taken a few days after liberation since written on the side of the car is "Bergen-Belsen" and "We are going to Israel by way of France."

Landmark exhibits shed light on life in German displaced person camps after the Holocaust

Life in the DP camps is the subject of a collaborative exhibition between Munich’s Jewish Museum and its City Museum, situated across the square from each other in the city’s center.

 People pay tribute during a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, in Jerusalem, April 18, 2023.

Toronto’s first Holocaust museum looks to the post-survivor era

The Toronto Holocaust Museum replaces the city’s Holocaust Education and Memorial Centre, founded in 1985 by local survivors who wanted to share their stories with students.

A red flower is seen on a wall during a commemoration of the liberation of the former concentration camp KZ Mauthausen, at the memorial site in Mauthausen, Austria, May 7, 2023.

Holocaust education: We must show people the evils of antisemitism - opinion

What is the role of Holocaust education? It’s not the answer to a 2,000-year-old problem that manifests itself in multiple forms.

 THE WRITER speaks at an event marking Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day, at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, in April 2012.

Political intolerance at a New York Holocaust museum - opinion

Tikvah reports that they were told by MJH to either disinvite Ron DeSantis or else find some other venue to have their conference.

 FLORIDA GOVERNOR Ron DeSantis speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, in February.

Did a New York Holocaust museum ban Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis?

“Out of the blue, we were told by the museum staff that Mr. DeSantis didn’t ‘align with the museum’s values and its message of inclusivity,’” the op-ed said.

Ron DeSantis, Florida Governor