The Programs on Religion and the Holocaust fosters scholarship, teaching, and reflection on the complex ethical, theological, and historical questions raised by the Holocaust.

My mother came from a very observant Orthodox Jewish family. Her grandfather was an Orthodox rabbi in a small town in Austria-Hungary (today Prešov, Slovakia). Her father graduated from a yeshiva in ...

In today’s episode, Holocaust survivors share their thoughts on the importance of speaking about their experiences. It is our tradition at First Person that each guest speaker ends the program with ...

WASHINGTON, DC – One year ago, Hamas terrorists orchestrated an unconscionable attack on Israel, resulting in the single deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. More than 1,200 men, women, and ...

In November 2020, a brutal civil war broke out in the Tigray region of Ethiopia between the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and its allies and the Tigray Defense Force (TDF). Approximately ...

For the First Time, Public Receives Digital Access to These Materials WASHINGTON, DC -- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has made available online the full sound recordings of the War ...

Ray Allen has visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum several times since it opened; each time he brings a different friend, teammate, or coach. The Museum, Allen says, has a message for ...

Historian Christopher Browning has written extensively about how ordinary Germans became murderers during the Holocaust. Listen to Browning explain why examining the perpetrators' history matters.

On May 22, 2020, the Simon-Skjodt Center’s Ferencz International Justice Initiative launched the first in a series of reports that explore whether Myanmar (also known as Burma) is complying with its ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum welcomes today’s announcement that His Holiness Pope Francis intends to open the Vatican’s archival record of Pope Pius XII to allow for in ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum strongly condemns Russia’s outrageous attack on Ukraine and is deeply concerned about threats to civilians and loss of life. In justifying ...

WASHINGTON – Within days, two antisemitic terrorist attacks in the U.S. have cast in stark relief the outcome of the normalization of hatred of the Jewish people. On May 21, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah ...