Museum Press Kit

All figures are as of January 2024, unless otherwise noted.

Visitors to the Museum

Since opening in April 1993

Total: More than 47 million
Demographics: Currently 24% school children; 12% international; approximately 90% non-Jewish
Dignitaries: More than 100 heads of state; more than 3,500 foreign officials from over 132 countries
Members: 194,742

William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education

The Levine Institute is the world’s preeminent institution for promoting quality Holocaust education. As part of our nation’s official memorial to the Holocaust, the Levine Institute’s educational programs reach students, teachers, and the public as well as leaders in the American military, judiciary, law enforcement, and government.

The Teacher Fellowship Program trains leaders in the field of Holocaust education. This national corps of skilled educators promotes quality Holocaust education and programs to ensure that how and why the Holocaust happened is an important component of Holocaust education.

More than 461 fellows, representing 49 states, the District of Columbia, and 11 countries, trained since the program began in 1996.

Leadership programs for professionals examine the choices made by individuals and institutions during the Holocaust to give participants insight into their own professional and individual responsibilities today.

More than 264,380 professionals educated through our programming.

Military:

Approximately 66,100 military professionals, including officers-in-training, active duty US military, and international officers.

Government:

Approximately 6,200 government professionals at various levels in their careers across agencies.

Judiciary:

Approximately 26,780 federal and state professionals, including judges, prosecutors, attorneys, and court support staff.
Conducted 199 Law, Justice, and the Holocaust programs in 44 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

Law Enforcement:

Approximately 165,300 federal, state and local law enforcement, including FBI, Secret Service, MPDC, Philadelphia, Montgomery, Prince George’s, NYPD, etc.
Conduct 80-100 programs annually, in seven cities across US.

Special Exhibitions in the Museum

Americans and the Holocaust
Burma’s Path to Genocide
American Witnesses
Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story

Traveling Exhibitions

More than 350 presentations of nine exhibitions in 210 cities and 49 states, as well as Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Serbia, Tunisia, Belgium, South Africa, Namibia, and Poland The United Nations has hosted three Museum exhibitions, two at UN headquarters in New York City and one in Paris.

Americans and the Holocaust

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The 14th street entrance of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum at dusk. —Timothy Hursley for US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe and delegation tour the Permanent Exhibition and meet Holocaust survivors, Leo Melamed, Julie Baskes and Nina (Masha) Leon. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Close-up images of the Tower of Faces in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's permanent exhibition. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Artifacts, including a diary, from the collection of Anthony Acevedo, a World War II veteran and POW, who survived the Berga camp. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
A young visitor examines a display in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Remember the Children: Daniel's Story," which is designed for children eight and older. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Image projection of "Our Walls Bear Witness: The Plight of Burma's Rohingya" in 2013 on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's 15th Street plaza walls. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
John Butzke with his great grandfather's stuffed teddy bear named Hans, an artifact donated by Eva Butzke and family in 2014. Family jewels were hidden inside the neck area of the teddy bear during the Holocaust. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Artifacts curator Kyra Schuster displays the handmade American flag donated by the children of World War II liberator Donald Hall. The flag was given to their father by prisoners in gratitude after the liberation of the Langenstein concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
A student from H.D. Woodson High School in Washington, DC, tours the Museum's permanent exhibition. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Student ambassadors of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Bringing the Lessons Home program tour the "Tower of Faces" in the permanent exhibition. The program trains high school students in the DC area to become Museum docents. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Mansour Omari, who was detained for nearly a year in secret governmental prisons in Syria, stands in front of the "Syria: Please Don't Forget Us" special exhibition, which presents the dire situation facing Syrian civilians and the search for justice. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Museum's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide hosted a public program called "Syria: Is the Worst Yet to Come?" in 2018 on the seventh anniversary of the Syrian conflict. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Holocaust survivors and Museum volunteers Albert Garih and Ruth Cohen light a candle during the Days of Remembrance ceremony on April 2018 at the US Capitol. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Entrance to the "Americans and the Holocaust" special exhibition, which shows how the Depression, isolationism, xenophobia, racism, and antisemitism shaped responses to Nazism and the Holocaust in America. It reveals how much information was available to Americans at the time and asks why rescuing Jews did not become a priority, except for a few individuals who took the risk to help. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
US Naval Academy midshipmen observe Pastor Martin Niemöller's quote in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's permanent exhibition. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Christina Chavarria, program coordinator for education initiatives for the Museum's Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, leads a teacher training during the Conference for Holocaust Education Centers in 2018. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

The Mandel Center promotes the growth of Holocaust studies at American universities, fosters relationships between American and international scholars, and works to ensure the ongoing training of future generations of Holocaust scholars.

More than 1,045 faculty seminar participants from 49 states and the District of Columbia (and Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Sweden, the UAE, and the UK) in 54 Mandel seminars held at the Museum from 1999 to 2024.
More than 712 fellows-in-residence from 44 countries since 1994.
More than 1,042 campus outreach lectures in 49 states since 2001.

David M. Rubenstein National Institute for Holocaust Documentation

The Museum is building the authoritative collection of record on the Holocaust and making it fully accessible and preserved for future education, research, and scholarship. The Museum’s collection of artifacts, documents, films, photographs, recorded sound, microfilms, digital resources, and published materials is preserved in the state-of-the-art David and Fela Shapell Family Collections, Conservation and Research Center.

26,867 objects
Approximately 126 million pages of archival documents, with an additional 200 million digital images from the Arolsen Archives (formerly the International Tracing Service).
More than 114,109 historical photographs and images, of which 90,197 are available on the Museum’s website.
More than 1,456 hours of archival film footage; 220 hours of outtakes from the film SHOAH.
More than 136,000 library items in 63 languages.
More than 26,000 Holocaust-related testimonies and access to nearly 52,000 oral histories from the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation and 4,500 interviews from Yale’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.
210,969 survivors and their descendants, as well as other victims and World War II veterans, registered in the Meed Survivors Registry.
Approximately 12.2 million name records in the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, of which nearly 9.5 million records are available online.

Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide

The Simon-Skjodt Center is dedicated to stimulating timely global action to prevent genocide and to catalyze an international response when it occurs. Its goal is to make genocide prevention a core foreign policy priority for leaders worldwide through research, education, and public outreach.

Led more than 10 Bearing Witness trips from 2004–2023 to countries of concern including Burma, Iraq, South Sudan, Rwanda, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Syrian border to sound the alarm about the need for urgent action in places at risk for genocide and related crimes against humanity.
Met with hundreds of policymakers in the United States and abroad to strengthen governments’ will to prevent genocide and related crimes against humanity.
Hosted 35 fellows over the past ten years who have conducted cutting-edge research that can save lives - including developing the world’s first public early warning system for assessing the risk of mass atrocities in countries around the world.