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 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.

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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 ...

Millions of ordinary people witnessed the crimes of the Holocaust. These teaching materials explore the motives and pressures that led many individuals to abandon their fellow human beings—or to make ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum deeply mourns the loss of Holocaust survivor, Council member, and special friend Abraham Foxman, a towering advocate for the Jewish people worldwide and one ...

Download poster sets, covering topics like propaganda and the roles of individuals during the Holocaust, to use in your classroom. Are you an educator looking for resources for your classroom? Please ...

Norah Bagarinka, a Tutsi, was targeted during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. She survived, as many Tutsi did, by running and hiding for more than 100 days. Transcript When we reached the roadblock, I ...

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The Community of Holocaust Education Centers (CHEC) is a dedicated network of local and regional organizations that participates in training at the Museum, learning about new resources and historical ...

Find out how to research what happened to your family, visit our Resource Center, and more ways to learn about victims of Nazi persecution. Connect With Survivors Learn about the Holocaust survivors ...

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