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The Museum is Closed

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is closed on Thursday, October 2, 2025, in observance of Yom Kippur. The Museum will reopen on Friday, October 3, 2025.

Tools For Research

  • Provides access to records across the Museum’s collections, including publications, photographs, objects, documents, films, music, and oral histories.

  • Subscription-based and free databases, e-journals, digitized newspapers, and primary sources accessible from within the Museum.

  • Presents online articles on hundreds of topics, with photographs, primary sources, interviews, film footage, maps, and other artifacts.

  • Centralizes information from the Museum’s collections about individual survivors and victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution.

  • Contains an overview of the 21,000 historical collections of documentary materials contained within the archive of the International Tracing Service.

  • Contains more than 54,000 oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors.