Shoah: Breadcrumbs of life

By David Suissa
Published on April 4, 2013

The Holocaust is really too big and too dark to fathom. It’s larger than life, larger than death, even larger than evil. The human mind can’t quite comprehend an evil that wants to destroy a whole race of humans — and succeeds in destroying about a third of it.

How the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum changed my life

By Michael Berenbaum
Published on April 3, 2013

My daughter, Ilana, then a young college student, asked if she could go with me to the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, on April 22, 1993 (the date was tied to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’s 50th anniversary). I said: “I will be leaving very early.” She responded: “I’ll be up.”

The Holocaust just got more shocking

Published on March 3, 2013

Thirteen years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe.

Holocaust Memorial DC

By Klaudia Klimek
Published on February 25, 2013

Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires, Polish government honor Janusz Korczak

Published on August 22, 2012

The Polish government and the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires inaugurated a two-day seminar about Janusz Korczak.

ADL offers free trip to Washington, D.C., for High-School students

By Ryan Torok
Published on May 15, 2012

This November, approximately 100 high-school students from around the country will participate in the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Grosfeld Family National Youth Leadership Mission, an annual three-day trip to Washington, D.C., for students, with all expenses paid for by the ADL.

A Blessing for Hitler? May His Memory Be Eradicated

By Pini Herman
Published on January 25, 2012

Reform defends Richard Jacobs as critics attack his Israel positions

Published on May 2, 2011

An angry exchange over the Zionist credentials of the incoming president of the Reform movement has intensified and exploded onto the public stage. The conflict pits the movement’s leadership against a group of dissidents who say they represent a growing number of Reform Jews upset by the movement’s “leftward shift.”

Security Guard Killed at U.S. Holocaust Museum Attack [VIDEO]

Published on June 10, 2009

An 88-year-old white supremacist shot and killed a security guard Wednesday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum before being shot by two other museum security guards.

Bush friend wins praise for Holocaust Museum role

Published on December 26, 2008

Current and former members of the 55-person council and others connected to the museum say Zeidman helped bring a stability and professionalism that sometimes had been lacking in previous years.

Briefs: Groundbreaking for Holocaust Museum, finally

Published on January 31, 2008

After 47 years of waiting for a permanent home, everything seems to be moving quickly now for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Museum officials and an impressive list of L.A. politicos broke ground Jan. 25 on the museum's future home at Pan Pacific Park, joined by the survivors who founded the first memorial of its kind in the United States nearly five decades ago.

Low hopes for Bush in Israel

By Douglas M. Bloomfield
Published on January 10, 2008

If there is one thing the Bush White House excels at it is lowering expectations, and the administration spin machine was operating at full speed in the days leading up to President Bush's Middle East trip, which at press time on Tuesday was expected to begin on Wednesday.

Briefs: DREAM Act passage pushed, City clears Holocaust Museum hurdle, but one more remains

Published on November 15, 2007

Community briefs.

Permanent home planned for Holocaust Museum

By Tom Tugend
Published on July 12, 2007

Nearly 50 years after a group of survivors first conceived the project, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMH) has cleared the last legal hurdle to build a permanent home.

Survivors blast Holocaust Museum over archive access restrictions

By Edwin Black
Published on May 17, 2007

Holocaust survivors are venting their anger at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington over its decision not to allow immediate electronic access to the long-secret records of the International Tracing Service at Bad Arolsen, Germany.

Community Briefs

By David Finnigan
Published on June 23, 2005

Community Briefs

World Briefs

By JTA Staff
Published on January 16, 2003

World Briefs

Holocaust Museum Reopens

By Ruth Stroud
Published on April 8, 1999

Next week's reopening of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust at its new location on Museum Row coincides with a string of events that will commemorate Yom HaShoah.