The National WWII Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy is pleased to issue this call for papers for its Spring Emerging Scholars Workshop, “New Directions in WWII History.” This two-day experience will take place at the Museum in New Orleans and culminates with a one-day workshop on February 24, 2026.
To commemorate Yom HaShoah, join The National WWII Museum for an evening with Holocaust survivor Renée Fink.
A week before American units liberated their first concentration camp, the US 2nd Infantry Division uncovered one of the killing centers of the Nazi regime's so-called "euthanasia" program at Hadamar, Germany.
Voices from the Front is a new interactive experience at The National WWII Museum that helps visitors connect with the WWII generation in a high-tech yet personal way. By using cutting-edge technology to facilitate real-time interactions with more than a dozen veterans, Home Front workers, Holocaust survivors, and other witnesses to the war through interactive video displays, Voices from the Front puts real faces to history. Combining artificial intelligence technology and a repository of prerecorded answers to hundreds of questions, the experience provides visitors with authentic and unaltered answers in each interviewee’s own words and voice.
Freedom tells the story of a Holocaust survivor and an Irish immigrant who meet hours before their American naturalization ceremony. Freedom looks at the ways we yearn for freedom—the freedom to face the truth about ourselves with grace, acceptance, and forgiveness.
Tune in for a conversation about the men of X Troop, who were the real Inglorious Basterds: a secret commando unit of young Jewish refugees who were trained in counterintelligence and advanced combat to deliver decisive blows against the Nazis.
Tune in for an enlightening conversation about the trials and tribulations that tens of millions of Europeans faced in the years following Victory in Europe in 1945.