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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity. the Museum provides a powerful lesson in the fragility of freedom, the myth of progress, and the need for vigilance in preserving democratic values. With unique power and authenticity, the Museum teaches millions of people each year about the dangers of unchecked hatred and the need to prevent genocide.

The Holocaust

Hall of Names - Yad Vashem, Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem.

Hall of Names - Yad Vashem, Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem

Complicity

The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941. About 40 non-Jewish Poles carried out the crime. This image is the memorial marker.

The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941. About 40 non-Jewish Poles carried out the crime. This image is the memorial marker.

Denial

The trial of Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem where Arendt’s “Banality of Evil,” captured his denial of responsibility.

The trial of Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem where Arendt’s “Banality of Evil,” captured his denial of responsibility.

Human Rights

Wall of Remembrance at the USHMM

Wall of Remembrance at the USHMM

International Response

Accused perpetrators at the Nuremberg Trials.

Accused perpetrators at the Nuremberg Trials.

Propaganda

Examples of Nazi Propaganda from the 1930s.

Examples of Nazi Propaganda from the 1930s.

Remembrance

A Holocaust Remembrance Candle

A Holocaust Remembrance Candle

Resistance

Memorial at the Mila Street bunker for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Memorial at the Mila Street bunker for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Survival

Child survivors of Auschwitz, wearing adult-size prisoner jackets, stand behind a barbed wire fence.

Child survivors of Auschwitz, wearing adult-size prisoner jackets, stand behind a barbed wire fence.

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