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

This lesson is designed to engage students in understanding the individuality of Jewish lives affected by or lost in the Holocaust and the cumulative effects of the Holocaust on communities. After ...

The Genocide Convention of 1948 makes it a crime to commit certain acts “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group.” The Convention lists five acts ...

This lesson explores the online exhibition Some Were Neighbors. In this lesson, students will examine examples of choices of ordinary people during the Holocaust and think critically about the fears, ...

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies supports monographs, edited volumes, and digital projects and publishes them in association with scholarly nonprofit presses.

In addition to materials available digitally through the Museum's Collections Search, members of the public may access archival and published resources at the David and Fela Shapell Family Collections ...

Pressures and temptations were great to betray Jews or others dehumanized by the polarizing effects of racism, antisemitism, violence, war, and occupation during the years of Nazi rule in Germany and ...

Every day, we open more minds to the reality of the Holocaust and its many lessons for today’s world. When you become a member, you support us in educating a new generation about this important ...

Introduces high school students to Holocaust history and encourages them to share its lessons with their family, friends, and community. Through a partnership with the Washington, DC, public school ...

Our seminars assist faculty members who are teaching or preparing university-level courses on the Holocaust.

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 go into hiding separately from Al and his ...

Definitions are important. One of the Museum’s guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust is to define the term “Holocaust.” This short activity helps students understand the definition of the term.