In July 1995, as the civil war in Bosnia raged on, humanitarian-aid workers in the Bosnian Muslim town of Tuzla, in the northern part of the country, came to a startling realization. Dispatched to ...
Irene Weiss was born Perl Ruchel Fogel on November 21, 1930, in Bótrágy, Czechoslovakia (now Batrad’, Ukraine) to Meyer and Leah Fogel. Meyer owned a lumber yard, and Leah managed their home and cared ...
Pete grew up in Essen, a major industrial city on Germany’s Ruhr River. His father worked as a cattle hide dealer for an international trading company in nearby Mühlheim. His mother was a designer for ...
Rachel (Rae) Mutterperl was born to Beryl and Dina on December 2, 1930, in Dokszyce, Poland (present day: Doksycy, Belarus). Dokszyce was three miles from the Soviet Union border with a population of ...
Holocaust survivor Ayana Touval was just a toddler when Nazi Germany and its allies invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941. Soon afterward, Nazi collaborators began persecuting Jews in Zagreb (which is now ...
Each year, Campus Outreach Programs hosts two seminars at the Museum that offer North American faculty, lecturers, and advanced graduate students the opportunity to engage with our materials and learn ...
This program is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. For more information, please contact the Museum’s Midwest Regional Office at 312.856.4592 or [email protected].
These photographs show that the Sobibor killing center was not entirely shrouded in secrecy. Guests were welcomed there, and local people came in to work and even socialize with the SS staff. In their ...
Among Johann Niemann’s possessions was a small photo album documenting a visit to Berlin in summer 1943 by killing center personnel. The trip was a reward from the T4 (“euthanasia” program for the ...