In 1942, members of the Schwarz family packed their belongings, hid them in the attic for safekeeping, and left their home. Like many Jews who received ...

Marcel Drimer was born Marceli Drimmer on May 1, 1934 in Drohobycz, Poland (today Drohobych, Ukraine). His father, Jacob, worked as an accountant in a lumber factory while his mother, Laura (Gruber), ...

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Julie Keefer was born Jula Weinstock on April 19, 1941, in Lwów, Poland (present day: Lviv, Ukraine). Her father, Herman, was a tinsmith. Her mother, Sala (née Eisen), was an opera singer and ...

Genocide did not end with the Holocaust. The Museum teaches about cases of contemporary genocide and other mass atrocities through in-person and online exhibitions. The in-person exhibition explores ...

Ruth Cohen was born Renee Friedman on April 26, 1930, to Herman and Bertha Friedman in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia. Herman and his brother were wholesale wine and beer manufacturers. Ruth, her older ...

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Tamar Hendel was born Rut Hendel on April 26, 1935 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Her father, Isac (Eisig), owned a successful dry goods store. Her mother, Hana Surah Weissman, helped run the store. While the ...

Lisa Kraft was born Elisabeta Ernestina Renata Rosenthal on April 24, 1938 in Trieste, Italy. Her father, Nandor Rosenthal, worked at a Hungarian-Jewish-owned asbestos company. The company closed due ...

WASHINGTON – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum mourns the death of His Holiness Pope Francis. In 2019 Pope Francis announced that the Vatican would open the archival record of Pope Pius XII ...