Artist Jeff Scher painted over photos of Jewish children in the ghetto in a process called rotoscope animation used for “The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm.”

Explore how archives, libraries, and museums use their unique strengths and collections to combat antisemitism and create lasting change.

Spotlight on Holocaust Collections

Yad Vashem

Recognized as the leading authority in Holocaust education, remembrance, documentation, and research, it is the world’s largest Holocaust-era repository with 220 million pages of documentation, 520,000 photographs and films, 179,000 scholarly publications, 134,000 survivor testimonies, and 55,000 artifacts and works of art. Its Central Database of Holocaust Victims’ Names includes information on 4.8 million Jews who were murdered.

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The United States’ official memorial to the Holocaust, adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Its collections contain approximately 112 million archival documents, 200 million digital images, 127,000 library items, 114,116 historical photographs, 23,571 objects and artifacts, 23,000 Holocaust-related testimonies, 1,675 hours of archival film footage, and 11.6 million name records for Holocaust survivors and victims.

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The institution provides a library, archive, and information service dedicated to supporting research and advocacy about the Holocaust. Its collections contain 2 million published and unpublished manuscripts, original news media, photographs, eyewitness testimony, books and pamphlets, periodicals, posters, artworks, and audiovisual materials.

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The institution preserves, studies, and teaches the cultural history of Jewish life throughout Eastern Europe, Germany, and Russia, with a particular focus on studies related to Yiddish. Its collection includes 6000 volumes published in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, 700 memorial volumes (yizker-bikher) and Holocaust Survivor Lists. YIVO is the only pre-war Jewish archive and library to have survived the Holocaust.

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The institution is located within the former Mechelen transit camp and documents the persecution of Jews, Roma, and Sinti in Belgium and Northern France during WWII. It includes a memorial, a museum, and a research centre, where 1.5 million+ original documents, photographs, and records have been digitized in an accessible “image bank.”

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A research institution that focuses on the history of Jews in Poland and Jewish culture. It holds The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, the so-called The Ringelblum Archive. Listed on the Memory of the World Register by UNESCO, the archive is a unique collection of documents constituting one of the most important testimonies about the extermination of Polish Jews. Its broader collections include 15,000 objects, 100,000 archived photographs, and a library of 80,000 volumes.

Coming soon: survey data on 100 institutions with collections containing Holocaust-related material including 50 in the Americas, 44 of those in the United States; 41 in Europe, of which 8 are in Germany, 6 in Poland, and 6 in the United Kingdom; 5 in Israel; 2 in Asia (Hong Kong and Japan); 1 in Africa (Capetown); and 1 in Australia (Melbourne).

Spotlight on Holocaust Collections

Yad Vashem

Recognized as the leading authority in Holocaust education, remembrance, documentation, and research, it is the world’s largest Holocaust-era repository with 220 million pages of documentation, 520,000 photographs and films, 179,000 scholarly publications, 134,000 survivor testimonies, and 55,000 artifacts and works of art. Its Central Database of Holocaust Victims’ Names includes information on 4.8 million Jews who were murdered.

USHMM_crop

The United States’ official memorial to the Holocaust, adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Its collections contain approximately 112 million archival documents, 200 million digital images, 127,000 library items, 114,116 historical photographs, 23,571 objects and artifacts, 23,000 Holocaust-related testimonies, 1,675 hours of archival film footage, and 11.6 million name records for Holocaust survivors and victims.

Wiener-Library-1_crop

The institution provides a library, archive, and information service dedicated to supporting research and advocacy about the Holocaust. Its collections contain 2 million published and unpublished manuscripts, original news media, photographs, eyewitness testimony, books and pamphlets, periodicals, posters, artworks, and audiovisual materials.

YIVO-scaled_crop

The institution preserves, studies, and teaches the cultural history of Jewish life throughout Eastern Europe, Germany, and Russia, with a particular focus on studies related to Yiddish. Its collection includes 6000 volumes published in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, 700 memorial volumes (yizker-bikher) and Holocaust Survivor Lists. YIVO is the only pre-war Jewish archive and library to have survived the Holocaust.

Kazern-scaled_crop

The institution is located within the former Mechelen transit camp and documents the persecution of Jews, Roma, and Sinti in Belgium and Northern France during WWII. It includes a memorial, a museum, and a research centre, where 1.5 million+ original documents, photographs, and records have been digitized in an accessible “image bank.”

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A research institution that focuses on the history of Jews in Poland and Jewish culture. It holds The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, the so-called The Ringelblum Archive, listed on the Memory of the World Register by UNESCO, is a unique collection of documents constituting one of the most important testimonies about the extermination of Polish Jews. Its broader collections include 15,000 objects, 100,000 archived photographs, and a library of 80,000 volumes.

Coming soon: survey data on 100 institutions with collections containing Holocaust-related material including 50 in the Americas, 44 of those in the United States; 41 in Europe, of which 8 are in Germany, 6 in Poland, and 6 in the United Kingdom; 5 in Israel; 2 in Asia (Hong Kong and Japan); 1 in Africa (Capetown); and 1 in Australia (Melbourne).

Holocaust Museums Around the World

Anne Frank Stichting

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Founded in 1960

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Miejsce Pamięci Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau

Oświęcim, Poland

Founded in 1947

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Бабин Яр / Ieazhin Iar

Kyiv, Ukraine

Founded in 2016

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Gedelstätte Bergen-Belsen

Lohheide, Germany

Founded in 1952

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Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork

Hooghalen, Netherlands

Founded in 1983

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Terre Haute, Indiana, United States

Founded in 1995

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Cape Town, South Africa

Founded in 1999

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KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau

Dachau, Germany

Founded in 1965

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Dallas, Texas, United States

Founded in 1985

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Verzetsmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Founded in 1984

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El Paso, Texas, United States

Founded in 1994

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Casa Memorială Elie Wiesel

Sighetu Marmației, Romania

Founded in 2005

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St. Petersburg, Florida, United States

Founded in 1992

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בית לוחמי הגטאות / Bayt Luḥmiy Hagt'ot

Lohamei HaGeta’ot, Israel

Founded in 1949

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Fukuyama, Japan

Founded in 1995

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Glen Cove, New York, United States

Founded in 1992

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Skopje, Macedonia

Founded in 2012

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Holokauszt Emlékközpont

Budapest, Hungary

Founded in 2004

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Houston, Texas, United States

Founded in 1996

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Los Angeles, California, United States

Founded in 1961

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香港猶太大屠殺及寬容中心 / Xiānggǎng dà túshā jí kuānróng zhōngxīn

Hong Kong, China

Founded in 2012

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Skokie, Illinois, United States

Founded in 2009

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Dingęs Štetlas Šeduvos Žydų Istorijos Muziejus

Vilnius, Lithuania

Founded in 2024

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Mauthausen, Austria

Founded in 1975

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Melbourne, Australia

Founded in 1984

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מוזיאון למורשת היהדות ידוברת הוגרית / Muziy'un Lemorshat Hiyhadut Yeduvarat Hugrit

Safed, Israel

Founded in 1990

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Paris, France

Founded in 1956

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Association de la Maison d'Izieu, mémorial des enfants juifs exterminés

Izieu, France

Founded in 1994

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Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas

Berlin, Germany

Founded in 2005

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Musée Holocauste Montréal

Montreal, Canada

Founded in 1979

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Muzeum I Miejsce Pamiȩci w Sobiborze

Sobibór, Poland

Founded in 1965

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New York, New York, United States

Founded in 1997

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Museo Memoria y Tolerancia

Mexico City, Mexico

Founded in 2010

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Museo del Holocausto Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Founded in 2000

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Museu do Holocausto Curitiba

Curitiba, Brazil

Founded in 2012

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Los Angeles, California, United States

Founded in 1993

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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Founded in 2000

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Nationale Mahn und Gedenkstätte Buchenwald

Weimar, Germany

Founded in 1989

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Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Founded in 1990

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Museo Nazionale dell'Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah

Ferrara, Italy

Founded in 2017

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NS Zwangsarbeit Dokumentationszentrum

Berlin, Germany

Founded in 2004

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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Founded in 2001

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Norges Hjemmefrontmuseum

Oslo, Norway

Founded in 1962

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Portland, Oregon, United States

Founded in 1989

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Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen

Oranienburg, Germany

Founded in 1993

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Oswego, New York, United States

Founded in 2002

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上海犹太难民博物馆 / Shànghǎi yóutài nànmín bówùguǎn

Shanghai, China

Founded in 2007

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St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Founded in 1995

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Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku

Lublin, Poland

Founded in 1944

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בית טרזין / Bayt Terzin

Hadera, Israel

Founded in 1993

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בית העדות / Bayt Ha'dot

Nir Galim, Israel

Founded in 1990

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North York, ON, Canada

Founded in 2023

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Tucson, Arizona, United States

Founded in 2005

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Richmond, Virginia, United States

Founded in 1997

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Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States

Founded in 1984

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