Videos

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hosted a talk on early 20th century immigration policy and the Nazi-era refugee crisis of the 1930s and 1940s. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum historian…

Holocaust survivor Theodora Klayman recalled her family’s experiences after Nazis forces invaded Yugoslavia in 1941. Three-years-old at the time, she was visiting her grandparents in a small Croatian town…

Author and journalist Michael Dobbs discussed his book, The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between, which was published in association with the United States…

Holocaust survivor Albert Garih recounted his family’s experience after the Nazi invasion of France in 1940. When he was about four-years- old, his father was deported to a forced labor…

Holocaust survivor Irene Weiss recalled what happened to her family after Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939. She was 13 when her family was forced into an overcrowded ghetto and then sent to the…

The Chicago Tribune's Howard Reich talked about his conversations with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), who was liberated from Buchenwald along with Howard’s father in 1945.…

C-SPAN visited a class at Chapman University to see how author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel’s books were being used to help students learn about the Holocaust during World War II. C-SPAN’s Local…

Secretary of State Pompeo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and U.S. Ambassador David Friedman visited the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid a wreath at the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.

The American Bar Association and its German counterpart co-hosted a discussion on the fate of thousands of lawyers of Jewish origins during the Nazi regime. Speakers included author Douglas…

Jewish history Professor James Loeffler talked about his book, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century. In his talk, Professor Loeffler profiled two Jewish…

Curator Daniel Greene gave a tour of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit which uses films, artifacts, and documents to explore how the U.S. public and government officials reacted…

Second lady Karen Pence and Polish first lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence and Polish President Andrzej Duda visited the original gas chambers and…

Vice President Mike Pence and second lady Karen Pence, accompanied by the president and first lady of Poland, visited Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

Vice President Mike Pence and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki laid wreaths at the Warsaw Uprising Monument, followed by remarks from the vice president.

Vice President Mike Pence and second lady Karen Pence laid a wreath at the site of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis.

Holocaust survivor Emanuel “Manny” Mandel recalled his experiences as a young boy after the Nazi’s occupied his hometown of Budapest, Hungary, in March of 1944. Mr. Mandel and his family…

Holocaust survivor Josiane Traum recalled her family’s experiences after Germany invaded Belgium and imposed anti-Semitic laws. Ms. Traum talked about her parents' resistance to the Nazi regime and her…

Holocaust survivor Estelle Laughlin recalls how she survived in her book, Transcending Darkness: A Girl’s Journey Out of the Holocaust. She was 10 years old when Nazi forces invaded her home of…

President Trump participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at Yad Veshem, the Israeli national Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. He was introduced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,…