United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM provides for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history. It is dedicated to helping leaders and citizens of the world confront hatred, prevent genocide, promote human dignity, and strengthen democracy.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
14th Street entrance of USHMM
Raoul Wallenberg Place Entrance with Dwight Eisenhower Plaza in the Foreground
Bridges in the USHMM. Blue glass etched with names and places lost during the Holocaust.
Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa. There is no universally accepted definition of the term, and it has been applied variously to Jews who survived the war in German-occupied Europe or other Axis territories, as well as to those who fled to Allied and neutral countries before or during the war. In some cases, non-Jews who also experienced collective persecution under the Nazi regime are considered Holocaust survivors as well. The definition has evolved over time.
Children at Auschwitz concentration camp at the time of its liberation by Soviet forces
Jewish refugees arriving in London from Nazi Germany and Poland in February 1939
U.S. Army surgeon attends to a survivor in a sub-camp of Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after liberation.
A survivor, reduced by starvation to a living skeleton, photographed after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by the British
