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The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum highlighted stories of Jewish people who defied the Nazi regime to celebrate the holidays amid occupation and the Holocaust.

The 1936 Olympic Games were held in Berlin, Germany, despite concerns about the racist Nazi government and Adolf Hitler. In an event hosted by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, participant…

Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania during World War II. Unbeknownst to his government, he issued hundreds of transfer visas to Jewish families trying to escape Nazi occupie…

During World War II, over one million African Americans served in the armed forces. Washington Post writer DeNeen Brown and education consultant Lynn Williams discussed the challenges these …

General Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered that the horrors of the Holocaust be documented as World War II came to an end, determined that the evidence be preserved for future generations. It was …

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum hosted an online panel discussion titled, “How Did Young Americans Respond to the Nazi Threat?” Museum historians Edna Friedberg and Rebecca Erbelding wer…

In a 1961 televised proceeding seen around the world, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was put on trial in Israel for his role in the Holocaust. Historians Edna Friedberg and Elizabeth White…

Entertainer Josephine Baker, Baltimore resident Virginia Hall, and Muslim pacifist Noor Khan were recruited as spies during World War II. CIA Museum Deputy Director Janelle Neises and profes…

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum hosted a panel discussion looking at the continuing quest to bring former Nazis to justice. They explored questions raised by recent trials, such as if per…

At age 27, Benjamin Ferencz served as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials for the case against 22 leaders of the Einsatzgruppen, which were mobile Nazi death squads responsible…

The House Oversight and Reform Committee held a hearing remembering the Holocaust, 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, and to discuss how to combat bigotry, discrimination, and viole…