United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia
- http://www.ushmm.org
- http://twitter.com/holocaustmuseum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.
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Actor Daniel Craig is perhaps most famous for his portrayal of Agent 007 in the James Bond movies. But his latest film, Defiance, is based on the t...
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When Helen Jonas speaks of SS officer Amon Goeth, her voice still bears traces of the horrors she witnessed as his house servant at the Plaszow Con...
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- Length: 07:08
Colonel Edward Westermann believes it's important to prepare his cadets to confront morally complicated situations. In a seminar he taught on the H...
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- Length: 07:19
Concerned about a rise in racism and violence, Alexander Verkhovsky examines how interethnic conflict is fostered and spread throughout his native ...
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- Length: 04:31
Nechama Tec believes it's important to examine the Holocaust from many different angles. In her work, she looks at the places where antisemitism an...
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- Length: 05:09
- Purchases: 1
In 2006, while still a teenager, Harald Edinger left his home in Austria to work at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. During his 14 mont...
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In Plantations and Death Camps: Religion, Ideology, and Human Dignity, Beverly Mitchell looks at the history both of the Holocaust and of slavery i...
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- Length: 06:03
Music afforded Martin Goldsmith's parents some measure of shelter in Nazi Germany. For a brief period, they could practice their art and perform fo...
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Tad Stahnke believes that discrimination can exist in any society, and affect any individual. Everyone has an interest—and a responsibility—to conf...
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Antony Polonsky has learned that there are no simple answers to the large questions of history, no single view of the past. Any view of history mus...
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Johanna Neumann speaks with gratitude and affection of the family who rescued her during the Holocaust. Yet her fondness for them exists alongside ...
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As a lawyer defending victims of South Africa's apartheid government, Albie Sachs was harassed, jailed without trial and eventually driven into exi...
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When he was 17 years old, Capers Funnye's minister encouraged him to become a preacher. Today, Funnye is a spiritual leader—the rabbi at Beth Shalo...
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- Length: 06:58
Bruce Pearl's efforts at team-building extend beyond the court, where he tries to bridge religious and cultural differences among his players.
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- Length: 04:07
Ian Buruma says that freedom of speech must be protected. Unless words can be proven to incite violence, he believes in safeguarding what he calls ...
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Miriam Greenspan encourages people to confront grief, and to learn from it. She's come to this idea in part by listening closely to Holocaust survi...
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- Length: 07:46
German scholar Matthias Künztel warns that there is a shared totalitarian vision between Nazis and today's radical Islamists.
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- Length: 06:04
In examining how the New York Times could have missed—or dismissed—the significance of the annihilation of Europe's Jews, Laurel Leff found many un...
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- Length: 07:02
A student of both historical and contemporary Islam, Hillel Fradkin takes a long view in searching for reasons why Jews are at the center of radica...
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- Length: 05:27
Irwin Cotler attended the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, with great anticipation and hope. He left profoundly disapp...
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- Length: 05:57
People who work with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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David Klevan
Education Manager for Technology and Distance Learning |
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Holocaust Museum (Admin)
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