Category: Human Rights

June 29, 2022 Press Contacts Raymund Flandez: Communications Officer 202.314.1772 rflandez@ushmm.org Museum Press Kit With special permission from the Ukrainian State Archives, more than  10 million pages of records will be accessible online for the first time  WASHINGTON — For over 25 years, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has partnered with the Ukrainian State…

July 14, 2022 Press Contacts Andrew Hollinger Director, Communications 202.437.1221 ahollinger@ushmm.org Museum Press Kit U.S. Department of State and Museum Event Recognizes 75th Anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’s Singular Role in Preserving Holocaust Memory WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Department of State and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum marked the 75th anniversary of the…

August 24, 2022   Press Contacts Andrew Hollinger Director, Communications 202.437.1221 ahollinger@ushmm.org Museum Press Kit On August 25, 2022, we mark the 5th anniversary of the Burmese military’s genocide of the Rohingya, a religious and ethnic minority in Burma. These horrific attacks killed thousands of Rohingya men, women, and children. Over 700,000 Rohingya were forced…

September 19, 2022 Press Contacts Andrew Hollinger Director, Communications 202.437.1221 ahollinger@ushmm.org Museum Press Kit Museum Condemns Iranian President Raisi’s Holocaust Denial and Delegitimization of Israel WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum strongly condemns Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s claims in a 60 Minutes interview denying the incontestable truth of the Holocaust and questioning…

October 25, 2022 Press Contacts Andrew Hollinger Director, Communications 202.437.1221 ahollinger@ushmm.org Museum Press Kit Museum Warns of Heightened Risk of Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region WASHINGTON, DC. – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is deeply concerned about further crimes against humanity and a heightened risk of genocide in Ethiopia’s Tigray region….

October 31, 2022 Press Contacts Andrew Hollinger Director, Communications 202.437.1221 ahollinger@ushmm.org Museum Press Kit   UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM STRONGLY CONDEMNS RISING ANTISEMITISM IN THE UNITED STATES; CALLS ON LEADERS AND CITIZENS TO CONFRONT THIS DANGEROUS TREND  WASHINGTON, DC – Four years ago last week, the most deadly antisemitic attack in our country’s history…

November 25, 2022 Press Contacts Andrew Hollinger Director, Communications 202.437.1221 ahollinger@ushmm.org Museum Press Kit The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is outraged at the shooting at  Club Q in Colorado Springs that took the lives of five people, injured 19 others, and has reverberated across the LGBTQ community and beyond. The Museum expresses its condolences…

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Image description for blind and low vision folks: A white man with brown hair swept one side, glasses on, a blue V-neck T-shirt and a tan colored sweatshirt cardigan stands in the middle of a school gymnasium with a giant “T” on the middle of the floor be As of today, according to the CDC…

Short film for the BBC Learning Zone on the introduction of the Human Rights Act into Britain. Directed by Sharron Ward. Please excuse low res audio & video. Filmed 2001.