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


Construction of Austrian Holocaust victims' memorial begins

The country now recognizes that Austrians were perpetrators as well as victims of Nazi crimes but it has not confronted that chapter of its history as openly or directly as Germany.

A general view of a session of the parliament in Vienna, Austria, January 10, 2020

Auschwitz memorial and museum will reopen to visitors on July 1

Reservations must be made online.

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B'nai B'rith, JNF, to honor Holocaust-era educator Samuel Bein

The joint effort to recognize Bein is part of a long history collaborative projects between the B'nai B'rith and JNF.

Simon Wiesenthal Path Inaugurated in Martyrs Forest

Yad Vashem Remembrance Day event to be held online due to coronavirus

Next Generation Association, the organization responsible for the online memorial event, will be screening Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 21, in conjunction with Yad Vashem.

DR. ARKADAI ZELTSER in the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

Nazi death camp Buchenwald marks 75 years since liberation amid coronavirus

In the wake of the coronavirus lock down, authorities in the state of Thuringia cancelled commemoration events marking the the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald death camp.

A visitor stands in front of a watchtower behind a fence on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar

Yad Vashem to mark Remembrance Day with global name-reading from home

Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial based in Jerusalem, is creating a global name-reading initiative to mark Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day.

DR. ARKADAI ZELTSER in the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

Concern over future of Holocaust museum after historians resign in spat

In a country that has a record of local police helping the Nazis murder a quarter of the kingdom’s Jews, commemorating the genocide has never been comfortable.

The Kazerne Dossin Holocaust memorial museum in Belgium.

New Yorkers donate family WWII artifacts to the US Holocaust Museum

These are just a few of the 250 artifacts that the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has collected recently through a drive launched last month.

A photo of three Polish young women wearing yellow stars

US House overwhelmingly passes Holocaust Education Act

Bipartisan bill allocates $10 million for expansion of US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s education programming

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) administers the oath of office to House members and delegates of the U.S. House of Representatives at the start of the 116th Congress inside the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 3, 2019

Trump misuse of charity funds leads to Holocaust museum payment

That order, from state judge Saliann Scarpulla, settled a lawsuit filed against Trump last year by the New York attorney general

U.S. President Donald Trump talks about the United States imposing fresh sanctions on Iran as Vice President Mike Pence looks on in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2019