The Museum is free and open every day. It is closed on Yom Kippur, Christmas Day, and Inauguration Day, January 20, 2025. The Museum building is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. All exhibitions and the ...

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In 1938, Manfred Gans left his parents’ home in Germany for the United Kingdom. After World War II began, he was interned as an enemy alien. He volunteered to serve in an elite British unit made up of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Museum bestowed the 2014 Elie Wiesel Award on Canadian Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire in recognition of his valiant attempts to warn the world of and prevent the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Björn Siegel is a researcher at the Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg (Germany). He received his PhD and MA in History from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich in Germany.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...