An Annual Commemoration The United Nations has designated January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, as a time to remember the six ...

Alfred Münzer was born in 1941 to a Jewish family during Nazi Germany’s occupation of the Netherlands. Trying to keep the family safe, his parents arranged to ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide seeks applicants from early career scholars for its Genocide and Atrocity Prevention Research ...

WASHINGTON — The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today announced a $2.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. This grant builds on a 2022 $2.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment to support ...

Pursuing Justice for Mass Atrocities: A Handbook for Victim Groups provides guidance on what victim groups can do to advance justice efforts during and in the aftermath of genocide and related crimes ...

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 ...

Three decades after the end of the devastating 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), which included genocide and crimes against humanity, this multiethnic Balkan country is in the grips of an ...

“If a conflict breaks out in South Sudan now, it will be like no other. The destruction and suffering will be unprecedented.” — Ambassador Ismail Wais, IGAD Special Envoy for South Sudan, from remarks ...

Electronic data regarding names of former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp prisoners; data includes names, dates of birth, death, liberation, deportation and detention, associated places, prisoner ...

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 ...

On September 19, 2023, following a nine-month blockade and a military offensive by Azerbaijan, ethnic Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountain enclave in Azerbaijan, packed up everything they ...

“Every day, month, and year there are fewer and fewer Rohingya left in Burma. Without action, soon there will be none.” — Tun Khin, president of Burmese Rohingya Organization UK August 25, 2024, ...