The Amos S. Deinard Memorial Chair in Jewish History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities “There are No Jews in Morocco, Only Moroccan Subjects”: Mohammed V’s Response to Vichy’s Anti-Jewish ...

In 2004 Jerry Fowler, former staff director of the Museum's Committee on Conscience, traveled to Chad to meet refugees who were driven from their homes in Sudan, their villages torched, and their ...

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 ...

Professor Matthew Hockenos is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Skidmore College in New York. He received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in history from New York University and a B.A.

Tara Kohn is a Ph.D. candidate in art history at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also received an M.A. in art history. For her Joyce and Arthur Schechter Fellowship, Ms. Kohn conducted ...

In 1938, on the eve of World War II, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote that "a piece of paper with a stamp on it" was "the difference between life and death." The Unwanted is the intimate ...

A 12-foot slab of steel weighing nearly 30 tons, Richard Serra’s monolithic sculpture Gravity is wedged near the black granite wall at the bottom of the stairs in the southwest corner of the Hall of ...

Under Mr. Lerman’s leadership, the Museum began to serve as a voice of conscience by establishing the Committee on Conscience to speak out about contemporary genocide. His relentless efforts and ...

Ms. Susan Papp is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Toronto, Canada, where she has lectured in the Hungarian Studies Program at the Munk School for Global Affairs. She also served as ...

Jeffrey Burds received his Ph.D. in history from Yale University, and his M. Phil. and M.A. in history from the same institution. During his fellowship at the Museum, he was Associate Professor of ...

Curator Kyra Schuster recounts the serendipitous story of how the Museum came to acquire the puppet that US Army medic Eldon Nicholas used to entertain children at the Vittel internment camp in France ...

The Museum is deeply grateful to the following donors for their generous support of the Museum's Americans and the Holocaust Initiative. Gifts of $5 million or more Jeannie & Jonathan Lavine Gifts of ...