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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders to confront antisemitism and hatred, #PreventGenocide, and promote human dignity.

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1Feb 18, '24Weaponizing the Holocaust is always wrong and especially when it comes from a head of state. That Brazilian President Lula did so to promote a false, antisemitic claim is outrageou87.2×3.8M6.1k1.5k233
2Jun 18, '25Exploiting the Museum and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to sanitize “globalize the intifada” is outrageous and especially offensive to survivors. Since 1987 Jews have been attacked an86.4×3.8M6.8k1.4k413
3Jun 17, '23Vladimir Putin has repeatedly employed antisemitic lies and distorted the Holocaust to justify his brutal invasion of Ukraine. We condemn his recent remarks denigrating Ukrainian P26.8×1.2M12k3.1k155
4Dec 6, '23Opposing calls for genocide against Jews shouldn’t be difficult or controversial.15.7×691k7.2k1.4k77
5Dec 26, '231/2 Our Museum is the national memorial to the six million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. It is deeply offensive to survivors and the memory of the victims to e14.2×622k8k1.3k115
6Jan 25, '23Ten-year-old Thomas Buergenthal managed to avoid being sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, though most children deported there were murdered upon arrival. He later surv12×526k8.2k99529
7Jan 1, '23As they exited the rail car at the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in 1944, Beno Helmer was surrounded by his family for the last time. After the war, he searched for them town b10.7×470k7.9k64422
8Apr 18, '23It is impossible to picture six million people at once; to read six million names; to know six million stories. This Holocaust Remembrance Day, #WeRemember and reaffirm our endurin9.4×412k4.6k1.4k29
9Jun 27, '23The Holocaust—the murder of six million Jews—is one of the most well documented crimes in history, made possible by antisemitic conspiracy theories. Invoking those dangerous theori8.6×379k7.6k1.6k29
10Oct 14, '21The Holocaust is a fact. Here are resources for educators.7.7×014k4.9k229
11Apr 8, '23Today the world lost a leader in the quest for justice for victims of genocide and related crimes. We mourn the death of Ben Ferencz—the last Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor. At ag7.1×313k3.2k92530
12Apr 7, '2390 years ago #OTD in 1933, the Nazi German regime enacted the first major law discriminating against Jews. The Civil Service law, which forcibly retired civil servants of "non-Arya7.1×312k2k53535
13Jun 7, '19Karl Gorath was just 26 when his jealous lover denounced him as a gay man. He spent years in the concentration camp system until he was liberated from Auschwitz in 1945. But after 6.4×08.9k5.4k259
14May 6, '24It is impossible to picture six million people at once; to read six million names; to know six million stories. This Holocaust Remembrance Day, #WeRemember and reaffirm our endurin5.5×240k2.6k86920
15Jan 27, '221/ Maus has played a vital role in educating about the Holocaust through sharing detailed and personal experiences of victims and survivors. On the eve of International #HolocaustR5.3×010k3.2k99
16Jul 2, '23"One person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life and death." When Elie Wiesel died #OTD seven years ago, the world lost one of its strongest advocates for Holoc5.2×228k3.1k83928
17Sep 6, '23Italian Jewish chemist Primo Levi survived Auschwitz as a young man. He detailed his experiences there in his memoir, "If This Is a Man" (also known as "Survival in Auschwitz"). It5.1×224k2.9k57347
18Jan 1, '23The vandalism at a Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki, which once had the largest Jewish community in Greece, is an attack on Holocaust memory, an assault on the vibrant Jewish com4.9×215k2.6k50411
19Dec 2, '221/2 To all our new followers, it has never been more important to learn about the Holocaust. Get the facts, learn the history, and speak out against Holocaust denial, antisemitism 4.8×09.5k3k94
20Jun 5, '23Karl Gorath was 26 when a purported jealous lover denounced him to the Nazi regime for being gay. He spent years in concentration camps until he was liberated from Mauthausen in 194.3×189k2.5k3427
21Apr 11, '23At age 16, Elie Wiesel was one of the more than 21,000 people liberated from Buchenwald #OTD in 1945. "I knew I would have to bear witness. Everyone who was there is a witness, and4.0×174k3.1k54919
22Oct 25, '22We are deeply concerned about the threats of genocide and other mass atrocities against civilians in #Tigray #Ethiopia. They have faced mass arrests, targeted killings, and sexual 4.0×02.7k3.3k50
23Jan 28, '23Eva and Miriam Mozes survived SS doctor Josef Mengele's notorious experimentation on twins at Auschwitz. The only members of their family to survive, they are seen in this film sti3.7×164k3.5k49920
24Jun 1, '231/5 Josef Kohout, 24, was young and in love. When he sent a Christmas card to his boyfriend in 1938, he had no idea that it would end up in the hands of the Vienna Gestapo and he w3.6×156k3.2k52837
25Dec 22, '22“They were most kind to me,” Sally Wasserman recalled about her Polish rescuers, Mikołaj and Ewa Turkin. “But the most important thing … is that they saved my life.” In 1943, the c3.5×153k3.1k37911
26Feb 12, '23Simone Finifter (right) inscribed this photo to her daughter, writing, "Your mother, who suffers a lot." She is pictured here in June 1942 when Parisian Jews were first required to3.4×151k2.5k3568
27Oct 9, '23We just witnessed the deadliest single day for Jews since the Holocaust. This outrageous massacre and hostage-taking of innocent civilians perpetrated by Hamas terrorists must be u3.4×150k2.6k54324
28Dec 20, '22During Hanukkah in 1931, Rabbi Akiva Posner’s family placed a menorah in the window—an outward sign of their faith. Through the panes, a swastika flag is seen on a Nazi Party offic3.4×150k3.5k60526
29Apr 3, '23"She was my first and only love." Jacob Guttman and his then-girlfriend Bela are pictured here in the Radom ghetto, which was established in April 1941. Jacob kept this photo throu3.2×140k3.9k37819
30Aug 4, '23#OnThisDay in 1944, German and Dutch authorities discovered and arrested Anne Frank, her family, and the other residents of the secret annex in Amsterdam. Anne's father was the onl3.2×139k5.1k1.1k20
31Jul 21, '23“I’ll never forget the desperate faces and empty stares of the prisoners …” Before he was a famous singer, Tony Bennett helped liberate a subcamp of Dachau in April 1945 as part of3.1×138k4.4k99857
32Mar 1, '22The loss of life in Ukraine today is our primary concern. We are also outraged at the damage inflicted on the Babyn Yar memorial by Russia’s attack today. #BabynYar was the site of3.0×05.2k2.1k70
33Jan 26, '23After the Holocaust, Agi Geva’s mother made her promise never to remove the tattoo inked on her arm at Auschwitz-Birkenau at age 14. “This is proof of us being there," her mother s2.9×129k3.2k57522
34Apr 11, '17WATCH: Footage from our collection shows what US forces discovered when they liberated #Buchenwald.2.9×02.3k2.6k0
35Mar 6, '23A little over a year after this Purim portrait was taken in March 1943, seven-year-old twins Yehudit and Lea Csengeri were deported to Auschwitz. There, Josef Mengele selected them2.7×118k3.4k55315
36Mar 5, '23Joseph "Muscha" Müller was 12 when strangers took him from his classroom, claiming he had appendicitis. Although he protested, the Sinti boy was taken into surgery and sterilized. 2.7×118k2.9k3946
37Aug 12, '23In just hours, they were tried, convicted, and beheaded for treason. Brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friend Christoph Probst were members of the “White Rose" re2.6×114k3.9k90727
38Dec 29, '23“My number is A-10572. That is what I was, they did not call us by our name. We were no longer humans.” Lily Ebert (center) and her two sisters endured unimaginable dehumanization 2.5×112k2.8k43815
39Jul 31, '23Primo Levi, born #OTD in 1919, survived Auschwitz as a young man. He detailed his experiences there in his memoir, "If This Is a Man" (also known as "Survival in Auschwitz"). Today2.5×112k3.3k56219
40Feb 24, '22Vladimir Putin has misrepresented and misappropriated Holocaust history by claiming falsely that democratic Ukraine needs to be “denazified.” We strongly condemn Russia’s attack on2.4×04.6k1.5k48
41Dec 2, '22#OTD in 1938, the first Kindertransport arrived in Great Britain. These rescue missions would save thousands of mostly Jewish children from an uncertain fate in Nazi Germany. Seven2.3×05.4k1.1k23
43Feb 3, '22At the #Olympics you’ll see a well-known tradition—the torch relay—which the Nazis used at the 1936 Olympics for propaganda purposes. Today, we witness how the Olympics can still b2.3×04k1.2k76
44Jan 12, '23For Chaim and Chaya Kleinhandler, the birth of their granddaughter, Varda, in 1948 was a particularly special occasion. They had defied the odds to survive the Holocaust in their e2.2×98k2.6k2914
45Feb 25, '23“They were starting to not let Jews go to the swimming pool, not let Jews go to the skating rink, not to allow you to sit on certain park benches,” remembered Ilse Sakheim. Facing 2.2×97k3k45412
46Jan 27, '22While Auschwitz's liberation brought an end to the atrocities there, survivors would forever be haunted by their experiences. Learn more about Auschwitz this #HolocaustRemembranceD2.1×04.2k1.2k14
47Sep 9, '24When German soldiers tried to take away his teddy bear, Hans Butzke screamed until it was given back to him. His mother had sewn a few pieces of jewelry into the toy and told him n2.1×91k3.2k48745
48May 3, '23Adolf Hitler personally ordered the secret police to expel American journalist Dorothy Thompson from Germany in August 1934 due to her critical coverage of him years before. On #Wo2.0×90k3.1k69617
49Mar 2, '23Italian chemist Primo Levi survived Auschwitz as a young man. He detailed his experiences there in his memoir, "If This Is a Man" (also known as "Survival in Auschwitz"). Today, it2.0×89k2.8k40531
50Apr 28, '22“You—my only and dearest one—do not blame yourself for what happened. … Take care of the golden boy and don’t spoil him too much...” Vilma Grunwald wrote this to her husband after 2.0×04.1k1k89
51Dec 1, '22Under Adolf Hitler's leadership and imbued with his racially motivated ideology, the Nazi regime was responsible for the mass murder of 6 million Jews and millions of other victims2.0×03.2k1.4k54
53Aug 22, '23Benjamin Doron was a boy when, in 1942, Italian and German authorities in control of his home city of Benghazi began sending Jews in Libya to concentration camps there. Benjamin an1.8×78k3.1k41511
54Sep 9, '23In 1939, 15-year-old Eva Hayman escaped Prague to Great Britain on a Kindertransport organized by London stockbroker Nicholas Winton and his colleagues. In 1988, after she discover1.8×77k2.7k39213
55Aug 4, '25On August 4, 1944, a 15-year-old Jewish girl hiding in a secret annex in Amsterdam was discovered and arrested. She had been writing a diary. The Nazis tried to silence her voice—b1.7×76k3.5k84934
56Mar 11, '23Today, @BenFerencz turns 103. At age 27, with no prior trial experience, he prosecuted “the biggest murder trial in history.” Bringing Nazis to justice shaped the course of his lif1.7×76k3.3k48316
57Nov 28, '22Holocaust denial, distortion, and misuse undermine the truth and our understanding of history. Get the facts.1.7×03.1k1.1k25
58Aug 1, '23“I'm afraid they'll mock me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental, and not take me seriously.” #OTD in 1944, Anne Frank wrote her last diary entry. It is filled with self doubt. Mi1.7×73k2.6k46514
59Jan 27, '21The Germans established the Auschwitz camp complex in the spring of 1940 in German-occupied Poland. By the time Soviet troops liberated the remaining prisoners in Auschwitz on Janu1.7×02.5k1.2k22
60Nov 5, '22Ester Bachar was taken in by a Roma family as a toddler and spoke only Romani. She wound up at an orphanage where no one understood her, until she found a caretaker who spoke some 1.6×04.1k61529
61May 7, '23Rose Levin was just a baby when her mother gave her up to save her life. In German-occupied Wilno (today Vilnius, Lithuania), she was taken in and adopted by the non-Jewish Martul 1.6×71k2.8k3139
62Aug 8, '23Hedwig de Levie is pictured here playing with a kitten shortly before her life was changed forever. She was eight when the Nazis rose to power in 1933. Hedwig fled Germany in 1937 1.6×70k2.7k3409
63Jun 12, '22#OTD 93 years ago, #AnneFrank was born. For millions, she is their window into the Holocaust. Her diary was a treasured 13th birthday gift. Though she wrote most of it while in hid1.6×03.6k74413
64Sep 27, '22When David Bayer arrived at Auschwitz in 1944, the Nazis assigned him to forced labor. Against all odds, David survived the Holocaust. Today, David, a longtime Museum volunteer, ce1.6×04k4266
65Nov 24, '22In the Theresienstadt ghetto—established #OTD in 1941—Jewish prisoners received meager rations. Using a secret code, Hilde Gutfreund wrote to her sister, Renée, in Vienna asking he1.5×03.8k5945
66Oct 7, '22Anna Heilman's sister, Ester, was one of four Jewish women executed after the Sonderkommando revolt at Auschwitz, which began #OTD in 1944. "I have to believe they didn't die in va1.5×03.8k5197
67Mar 30, '23As an Auschwitz prisoner, Dr. Gisella Perl treated fellow inmates for illnesses caused by starvation, infection, and torture at the hands of their captors. After the war, she deliv1.5×64k2.7k3337
68Aug 7, '23In 1944, after Germany had occupied Northern Italy, Tatiana and Andra Bucci, ages 5 and 7, were sent to Auschwitz. They survived, and after a year in England, learned their parents1.5×64k3k39217
69May 14, '23After the Germans invaded Belgium, Josie Traum's mother feared for her daughter’s life. She sent her into hiding with strangers. After they were reunited, six-year-old Josie would 1.4×62k2.7k2868
70Feb 16, '23In 1941, Wilhelm and Johanna Schischa posed for this photograph, later given to their daughter, Lilli. They had secured Lilli passage on a Kindertransport, saving her life. They ar1.4×61k2.6k3588
71Jan 24, '21After surviving #Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel arrived at Buchenwald concentration camp this week in 1945. "I held onto my father's hand—the old, familiar fear: not to lose him. Right nex1.4×03k69036
72Jul 12, '22Liane and Eva are pictured here with their younger brother, Al, who is a Museum volunteer. "I never knew my sisters," Al recalled. "And it's one of the terrible losses that I suffe1.4×03.3k55513
73Dec 5, '22Dutch musician Frieda Belinfante risked her life to create fake ID cards for Jews throughout World War II. She was also openly lesbian. Frieda survived as a member of the resistanc1.3×03.1k52949
74Apr 6, '25Jack and Sylvia Amar had hoped to get married after the Nazis left Greece and their lives returned to normal. But when they learned they were going to be deported, they had a small1.3×57k3k41120
75Sep 8, '22At age 14, with her nation at war with Nazi Germany, then-Princess Elizabeth gave her first radio address, urging children to be brave. At 18, she joined the war effort, training a1.3×03k57620
76Jan 31, '22Once a week for more than 20 years, Holocaust survivor Henry Greenbaum spoke with Museum visitors about his time in a ghetto, Auschwitz, and on a death march. He projected warmth a1.3×03.1k51831
77Jan 9, '22A successful pianist and actor, Robert T. Odeman was arrested for violating Paragraph 175, the German statute banning sexual relations between men. He was imprisoned in the Sachsen1.3×03.3k41114
78Oct 4, '23Five-year-old Robert Wagemann was in a checkup when his mother overheard doctors discussing murdering him due to his disability: a shattered hip he had suffered at birth. Robert an1.3×56k2.9k57615
79May 8, '22#OTD in 1945, Nazi Germany surrendered unconditionally, formally ending the war in Europe. While celebrations erupted around the world, Victory in Europe Day (or V-E Day) was a tim1.3×02.9k58611
80Dec 4, '22#OTD in 1942, the Council for Aid to Jews ("Żegota")—a secret rescue organization supported by the Polish government-in-exile—was established. Co-founder Władysław Bartoszewski and1.2×03.1k4527
81Dec 2, '22Adolf Hitler made the swastika the centerpiece of the Nazi flag. Today it is known as a symbol of hate. Learn how a sign once associated with good fortune became the most recogniza1.2×02.3k69879
82Apr 5, '22After surviving Nazi labor camps and a death march, Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein spent her life educating others about the need for tolerance and understanding. She die1.2×02.5k57363
83Nov 7, '22Hannah Szenes was just 22 years old when she parachuted into enemy territory. She had left her home in Budapest five years earlier, but risked her life to return to Nazi-occupied E1.2×02.8k5506
84Aug 23, '23Hungarian Jewish businessman George Mandel-Mantello led one of the largest rescue efforts of the Holocaust. With the help of the consul general from El Salvador, Colonel José Caste1.2×53k2.7k42316
85Aug 10, '23“I have a very strong obligation that people ought to know the history.” Nechama Tec survived the Holocaust using a false Christian identity. She later became a scholar and author,1.2×53k3.1k50615
86Aug 17, '22Anne Frank is among the most well-known of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. For many students around the world, her diary is the first encounter they have with the h1.2×02.5k60922
87Nov 7, '22At the time of this photo, no one knew that Regina Rotenberg (age 2–3) would one day be in danger. But after Hitler came to power in Germany, Regina's family fled to Belgium. From 1.2×02.8k4678
88Feb 17, '22Brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl rebelled against the Nazi regime and paid the ultimate price. On the anniversary of their execution, 2/22, at 9:30 am ET, watch live on Fa1.1×02.4k57536
89Nov 30, '22In November 1944, the Nazi SS began dismantling Auschwitz-Birkenau’s gas chambers and crematoria in an attempt to erase the evidence of mass killings. Erich Kulka was one of the pr1.1×02.6k5315
90Oct 5, '22Teacher Elisabeth Abegg helped save dozens of Jews during the Holocaust. She helped secure safe houses for them, and sometimes offered to have them stay in her Berlin apartment. #W1.1×02.9k3864
91Dec 3, '22Virginia Hall was a most unlikely spy—a woman with only one leg. She supplied the French resistance with weapons, helped sabotage German supply lines, and was so effective that Kla1.1×02.8k39330
92Dec 13, '22On a deportation train to Auschwitz, Erwin Haber, 17, wrote letters to his family. He threw them out a window with a note: “Dear Finder! I’m asking you politely to send these lette1.1×02.7k41635
94Nov 28, '22Krystyna Chiger, age 7, wore this sweater during 14 months in hiding in the sewers of Lwów. Hand knit by her grandmother, Krystyna treasured it before WWII. "I was always wearing i1.1×02.6k43413
95Aug 9, '22Jacob Gutgeld survived the Holocaust by hiding in the home of Polish couple Aleksander and Amelia Rosłan. The Rosłans brought Jacob and his brothers into their home in German-occup1.1×02.8k3277
96Oct 8, '22The Germans established the Piotrków Trybunalski ghetto in early October 1939, just weeks after the German invasion of Poland. It was the first ghetto established by the Nazis. In 1.1×02.5k4187
97Nov 1, '22This is Zadok Parsser with his adoptive sister, Mara. He was one of 33 children rescued by Jan Bosch, a Dutch teenager, who helped hide and care for Jewish children. During #Nation1.1×02.6k4283
98Feb 23, '25"I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains." Eighty years ago—in February or March 1945—Anne Frank died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration cam1.0×44k4.3k93761
99Jul 25, '22When this photo was taken in August 1940, the family of Doris Bloch (pictured right) had already fled Nazi Germany, hoping to find safety in the Netherlands. Two years later, Doris1.0×02.5k35611
100Oct 1, '24Five-year-old Robert Wagemann was in a checkup when his mother overheard doctors discussing murdering him due to his disability: a shattered hip he had suffered at birth. Robert an0.8×36k2.6k58625
101Oct 5Free to the public for the first time, "Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away." opens at our Museum on January 4, 2027. Reserve your passes now.0.1×4.9k122317

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