United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Post

Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl helped craft the image of a powerful Germany with a strong and heroic figure at the helm. Her movie “Triumph of the Will” is studied to this day. Watch live on YouTube on July 10 at noon ET to learn about the power of propaganda in Nazi Germany. https://lnkd.in/dXbeJ525

Our Museum recently acquired the Centropa Collection, a trove of photographs, testimony, and other documents from Jewish survivors who remained in central and eastern Europe after the Holocaust. It provides a rare look into their prewar and postwar lives.

Nine-year-old Susan Warsinger and her younger brother Joseph woke to a brick smashing through their bedroom window on the night of November 9, 1938. Peering out the window, Joseph said, “Susi, it is our neighbors.” Hear Susan’s story live tomorrow at 1 p.m. ET.

There are only a few more days to register for the 2024 Belfer National Conference for Educators—the Museum’s flagship event for secondary school educators across the country. Taking place virtually from June 24–26, this conference is designed to support accurate, meaningful teaching about the Holocaust.

Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns was fatally shot on June 10, 2009, by an avowed antisemite, Holocaust denier, and racist, while protecting visitors and colleagues. Officer Johns’s outgoing personality and generous spirit endeared him to all who entered the Museum. His memory occupies a permanent place in our hearts.

The day after he learned that his parents were arrested, 13-year-old Peter Feigl wrote his first diary entry. "I fear for you, my dearest parents," he lamented a week later. Watch Peter on YouTube on June 12 at noon ET to learn what happened to him and his parents. https://lnkd.in/eCTR3YRA

In 2007, an album filled with photos of Nazi officers arrived at our Museum. Then-archivist Rebecca Erbelding would soon uncover the sinister truth behind the photos. Tonight, "60 Minutes" will air a segment about the play "Here There Are Blueberries," which brings to life our Museum's work to unravel the mystery behind the album.

Two decades ago, genocidal violence in Darfur killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. Today, the same groups who survived those attacks are again at risk as an assault on El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan appears imminent.

Frank arrived in the United States just days before Kristallnacht, a night of anti-Jewish violence, rocked his town in Germany. He later returned to Europe to fight as an American soldier. Frank and other Holocaust survivors who volunteer at our Museum were recently photographed by Luigi Toscano for his project, “Lest We Forget.”