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The monument commemorates victims of the massacre carried out on July 10, 1941, when Polish residents of Jedwabne, a small town located in then German-occupied Poland, participated in the murder of ...
Two antisemitic terrorist attacks in the U.S. in just 11 days is the outcome of the normalization of hatred of the Jewish people.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Museum is horrified by the desecration of our long-time, close partner the Mémorial de la Shoah, France’s national Holocaust memorial and educational institution, which was ...
WASHINGTON – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is outraged at the horrific antisemitic terrorist attack outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., that claimed the lives of two ...
The Museum welcomes President Trump's new appointments to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Ariel Simon Abergel, DC Jonathan Burkan, NY Robert David Garson, FL Tila Falic, FL Barbara ...
Thirty years after the genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country is in the grips of an escalating political crisis. In an interview with the Simon-Skjodt Center, Velma Šarić, founder and ...
South Sudan has a history of mass atrocities . Despite a peace agreement in 2018 ending a brutal civil war, risk factors for atrocities remain. A return to fighting in January 2025 between the ...
One year ago, Hamas terrorists orchestrated an unconscionable attack on Israel, resulting in the single deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
Two decades ago, genocidal violence in Darfur killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. Today, the Masalit, Zaghawa, and Fur minority groups who survived those attacks are again at risk. As the Rapid ...
A community of 8,000 Syrians is receiving lifesaving supplies for the first time since 2019, thanks to one organization’s creative use of a little-known US government aid program.
President Biden Appoints New Council MembersToday, President Biden announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council: Marsha Borin of Delaware ...
The Simon-Skjodt Center, US Institute of Peace, and multi-media advocacy project and exhibition, Nobody’s Listening, convened a discussion on tangible actions for the Iraqi and US governments to ...