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

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 ...

In today’s episode, Gerald Liebenau discusses his memories of Kristallnacht, also known as the “Night of Broken Glass.” On November 9-10, 1938, a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms erupted around ...

For most of us, citizenship is a status we can comfortably take for granted. Yet the millions of people who are denied citizenship of the country where they reside often have no rights, no protections ...

One sentence in a speech by FBI Director James Comey at the Museum’s annual dinner on April 15 has triggered a wide-ranging debate about complicity in Poland and Hungary during the Holocaust. Although ...

WASHINGTON, DC—Hajj Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem during World War II, was an antisemite and willing Nazi collaborator. While he was actively supportive of Nazi Germany's efforts to ...

Milton Green (left), captain of the Harvard University track team, took first place in the 110-meter high hurdles in regional pre-Olympic trials. His teammate, Norman Cahners, also Jewish, qualified ...

The stories that haunt me are, when we went finally to Srebrenica, and saw these people. I mean, these civilians, who were part of Europe, where there was once the Olympic Games, living like animals, ...

The Museum provides free research services to those seeking information about the fates of specific people. Our experienced staff conducts research in more than 25 languages and uses all the resources ...

As a token gesture to mollify the West, German authorities allowed the half-Jewish fencer Helene Mayer to represent Germany in Berlin. She had been studying at Mills College in California. No other ...

Two weeks before the Olympics began, German officials informed Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann that she was denied a place on the team, although she had equaled the German women's record in the high ...

1. The British Policy of Appeasement toward Hitler and Nazi Germany He repeatedly issued public warnings about the dangers Hitler and fascism posed to Britain ... to war. Others warned that Hitler ...