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2010

Museum director receives award
Museum director receives award

Sara Bloomfield, for the Museum, was recognized by Poland’s president on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Behind the scenes at the Museum

New series, Curators’ Corner, highlights artifacts, photographs, and documents in the Museum’s collections and the stories they bring to life.

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Michael Abramowitz
Why the US must prevent genocide

Read a joint op-ed from the Museum and USIP about how--and why--President Obama can make preventing genocide a strategic objective.

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2009

Romania unveils first memorial to the Holocaust
Romania unveils first memorial to the Holocaust

Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel and Museum Director Sara Bloomfield participate in opening ceremony of Romanian Holocaust memorial.

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Susan Rice
A Conversation with Susan Rice

Watch video of a special Museum program with Susan Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

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State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda
State of Deception: Power of Nazi Propaganda

Visit the groundbreaking multimedia exhibition that explores the Nazis’ sophisticated propaganda campaigns and their legacy.

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Anne Frank
Anne Frank the Writer: An Unfinished Story

2009 marks the 80th anniversary of the year of Anne Frank’s birth.

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International Task Force
International condemnation of Holocaust denial

Statement by Chair of the Museum-affiliated Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research.

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Michael Gerson
Online hate and lessons from the Holocaust

Internet hate speech today contains echoes of Nazi propaganda, writes Museum Council member Michael Gerson in his Washington Post column.

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Michael Gerson
Use of Nazi Imagery Trivializes Evil

Museum Council member Michael Gerson in his column in The Washington Post comments on the use of Nazi imagery in the national debate and its effect on Holocaust memory.

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Academic fellowship opportunities
Academic Fellowship Opportunities

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies now accepting fellowship applications for 2010-2011 academic year.

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“Hitler’s Hidden Holocaust” documentary features Museum Senior Historian
Documentary features Museum Senior Historian

Einsatzgruppen documentary airs on National Geographic Channel. Learn more about mobile killing units.

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President Barack Obama
Obama at Buchenwald rebukes Holocaust denial

Read President Obama’s remarks at Buchenwald on June 5 where he spoke of the importance of bearing witness.

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Beyond Williamson: The Larger Implications of Holocaust Denial
Museum column on Holocaust denial

Read Victoria Barnett’s post about the Holocaust’s implications for people of faith in the “On Faith” Washington Post/Newsweek online forum.

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President Barack Obama
Museum Leads Days of Remembrance

Watch the video of the Museum’s Days of Remembrance ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

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Michael Gerson
A Holocaust Denier at the Church Door

Museum Council member Michael Gerson on denial and many Christians’ apathy or complicity in the Holocaust and Rwandan genocide.

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Justice Department Transfers Copies of Proceedings Against Alleged Nazi War Criminals Living in the U.S. to the Museum
Justice Department donates trial documents

The Office of Special Investigations donates copies of more than 50,000 pages of trial transcripts and decisions to the Museum’s archive.

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Bielski partisans and Jewish resistance
Jewish resistance highlighted in Defiance

This new film starring Daniel Craig is based on actual events. Read about the Bielski partisans and Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.

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International Tracing Service
International Tracing Service

The Museum is responding to survivors’ requests for information from ITS, until recently the world’s largest closed Holocaust archive.

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World is Witness
World is Witness in Google Earth

This new “geoblog” opens a window into the lives of people affected by genocide and its long-term consequences.

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2008

USHMM @ iTunes U
USHMM @ iTunes U

The Museum offers audio, video, and text documents for learning about the Holocaust, antisemitism and genocide prevention via iTunes U, a dedicated section of the iTunes Store offering free education content.

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Father Patrick Desbois
Father Patrick Desbois

In cooperation with the Museum, Father Desbois is leading a historic undertaking to locate every unknown mass grave and site at which Jews were killed in the Ukraine during the Holocaust. Read a New York Times article, listen to the podcast, and learn more about his forthcoming book.

The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936
Special Exhibition: The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936

On display through August 24, the exhibition explores the issues surrounding the games and features a torch from the 1936 torch run and gold medals won by Jesse Owens and others. Read the press release and watch a short video about the exhibition.

Museum Issues Statement on Recent Events in Sudan

Museum Issues Statement on Recent Events in Sudan.

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Youth Service Program - R3
Youth Service Program - R3: Remembrance, Reflection, Response

R3 is a Museum online program that encourages young people to think about the lessons of the Holocaust and its relevance to today.

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Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS
Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS

The Museum recently acquired an album of photographs providing a chilling look at the Nazi leadership of Auschwitz. View the online display and read articles in the New York Times and International Herald Tribune.

Crisis in Darfur
Google Earth: Crisis in Darfur

This unprecedented online mapping initiative from the Museum and Google Earth lets you visualize, better understand, and respond to the genocide in Darfur.

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The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories
New Museum publication The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories

The Unknown Black Book provides a revelatory compilation of testimonies from Jews who survived open-air massacres and other atrocities carried out by the Germans and their allies in the occupied Soviet territories during World War II.

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Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943
New Museum publication Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943

An acclaimed historian's astonishing feat of biographical investigation rescues from oblivion the story of one child victim of the Holocaust.

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2007

Diary of a Witness, 1940-1943
New Museum publication Diary of a Witness, 1940-1943

“The remarkable wartime diary of Raymond-Raoul Lambert,” who was “arguably the most important Jewish official in contact with the Vichy government and the Germans.” — Michael R. Marrus

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George W. Bush

U.S. President George W. Bush speaks at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum about the importance of Holocaust remembrance and the urgent need for action to end genocide in Darfur.

Read follow up article in the New York Times. »
Press Release

Holocaust Museum statement on e-mail regarding Holocaust education in the United Kingdom.

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Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race

Opens April 30 in Atlanta at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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2007 Days of Remembrance

See highlights from the Museum's 2007 Days of Remembrance commemoration.

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Sol LeWitt

The Museum notes with sadness the passing on April 8, 2007, of artist Sol LeWitt. LeWitt created one of four commissioned pieces of art on display in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Museum testifies before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on the need to open the International Tracing Service, the largest closed Holocaust-era archive in the world.

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Museum publishes Refuge Denied, the search to discover the fate of all 937 passengers who fled Nazi Germany in 1939 for the U.S. aboard the St. Louis, but were forced to return to Europe.

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replica of a toy bear

Space Shuttle Discovery Commander visits the Museum to return two items he took on the most recent mission: a replica of a toy bear carried by a hidden child who survived the Holocaust, and a photo of a Darfurian child in a refugee camp.

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