The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators. Learn more in the Museum’s Holocaust Encyclopedia.

When joining the program, each CHEC partner participates in training opportunities within a two-year period. During this time, CHEC partners work with Museum staff to integrate USHMM resources and ...

Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, has become a standard text used in many classes to both teach about the history and human impact of the Holocaust. This lesson will help teachers and students understand ...

This one-day lesson provides an introduction to the Holocaust by defining the term and highlighting the story of one Holocaust survivor, Gerda Weissmann.

This lesson plan and video enable students to explore the factors that led German Jews to seek to leave their country and the difficulties of immigration to the United States in the 1930s and 1940s.

This lesson is designed as both a two-day and four-day unit. In both versions, students analyze how and why the Nazis and their collaborators persecuted and murdered Jews as well as other people ...

Ruth Cohen was born in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia, in 1930. The territory was annexed by Hungary, a Nazi ally, in 1938. After Nazi Germany occupied Hungary in 1944, Ruth and her family were forced into ...

The Monna and Otto Weinmann Eyewitness to History video library enables audiences everywhere to hear firsthand testimony from Holocaust survivors. This resource allows schools, civic and religious ...

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 ...

Aleisa Fishman, PhD Acting Director Dr. Aleisa Fishman directs the Museum’s Initiative on the Holocaust and Professional Leadership, which creates educational resources and programs that prompt ...

During the Holocaust, the police were central figures not just in maintaining public order but also in combating so-called racial enemies of the Nazi state. They also played a key role in the ...