Holocaust survivor Ninetta Feldman remembers fleeing her aunt’s house and hiding in an ancient Greek fortress to keep safe ...

La Nona Kanta is a tale of survival and courage. This program is a celebration of the life and work of Flory Altarac Jagoda (1923–2021), the National Heritage Award–winning, Bosnian-born, Sephardic ...

The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time to remember the six million Jewish ...

Workshop Dates: August 4–15, 2025 Application deadline: February 14, 2025 Applications must be submitted in English via our online application. While much scholarship has examined the communication ...

Andrew “Andy” Jampoler was born Andrzej Jampoler on January 15, 1942 in Lwów, German-occupied Poland (present day: Lviv, Ukraine) to Karol and Hanka (Awin) Jampoler. Andy’s father Karol attended the ...

A controversial move at the Games was the benching of two American Jewish runners, Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller. Both had trained for the 4x100-meter relay, but on the day before the event, they ...

Elie Wiesel, the Museum’s founding chairman, was deported to Auschwitz with his family in May 1944. He was selected for forced labor and survived. He later said, “I thought in 1945 antisemitism died ...

David Cesarani received a Ph.D. from Oxford University. During his tenure at the Museum, he was Research Professor in History and Director of Research at Royal Holloway, University of London. For his ...

The religious reactions to Kristallnacht show an awareness of what was happening that would shape subsequent church statements as the Holocaust unfolded and eventually led some denominations—such as ...