Elie Wiesel, the Museum’s founding chairman, was deported to Auschwitz with his family in May 1944. He was selected for ...

For years, they could not speak about the Holocaust. Teenagers Ruth Cohen, Steven Fenves, and Irene Weiss were deported in ...

Resources and tips to assist you before, during, and after your visit to the Museum ...

Visitors encounter Sol LeWitt’s wall drawing Consequence, situated in the Museum’s second-floor lounge, just after they leave the portion of the Permanent Exhibition dedicated to the ghettos and death ...

Dr. Götz Aly received Ph.D. in history and political science at the Free University in Berlin, Germany. During his fellowship at the Museum, he was an independent historian. For his J.B. and Maurice C ...

In this episode, Chief Acquisitions Curator Judy Cohen shares items from the recently acquired Katz Ehrenthal Collection. Judy explains how this collection of antisemitic materials, some around 500 ...

Emily Greble is Assistant Professor of History at the City College of New York. She received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in East European history from Stanford University and a B.A. in history with highest ...

Mr. Kiril Feferman received an M.A in contemporary Jewish history and a B.A. in Spanish and Latin American studies and German language and literature from Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and a B.A. in ...

Louise Lawrence-Israëls spent her early years in hiding in Amsterdam, where her parents tried to give her and her brother a normal upbringing despite the circumstances. The doll’s chair she received ...

Angelika Benz received an M.A. in German history and philology from the Technical University of Berlin. During her tenure at the Museum, she was a Ph.D. candidate in new German history at the same ...

Dr. Florent Brayard received a Ph.D. in history from Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and an M.A in history from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. During his fellowship at the Museum, ...

Elizabeth Strauss received an M.A. in political science and a B.A. with highest honors in German from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During her fellowship at the Museum she was a ...