The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and American University 

American University’s Jewish Studies Program works closely with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), located in downtown Washington, D.C., to offer AU students opportunities to deepen their knowledge of the Holocaust. AU students intern and volunteer at the USHMM, and the Jewish Studies Program, Department of History, and the USHMM collaborate on a jointly sponsored Holocaust Studies Forum.

Internships
American University students may intern at the USHMM, where they work with museum staff, scholars, and the public. Internships are assigned as needed, but in the past AU students have interned in the USHMM’s Archives Division, Collections Division, Survivors Registry Commission, Committee on Conscience, Education Division, and Film and Video Archives. For more information and to apply to intern, visit http://www.ushmm.org/museum/volunteer_intern/intern/

Volunteer
The USHMM welcomes volunteers dedicated to educating the public about the Holocaust. Volunteers at the museum may work in the many divisions of the museum, including Visitors Services, the Learning Center, Educational Programs and Tour Guides, Genocide Prevention, and Behind-the-Scenes. For more information, and to apply, visit: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/volunteer_intern/volunteer/

Holocaust Studies Forum     
The Holocaust Studies Forum is jointly sponsored by the AU Department of History, the AU Jewish Studies Program and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Inaugurated in the fall of 2009, the Forum brings leading scholars in Holocaust Studies, including the Center’s fellows and staff historians, to American University for public lectures and discussions.

The 2009 lecture series included:
• “Mothers and Daughters in the Holocaust” by Sara Horowitz, Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at York University, Toronto and Fellow of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the USHMM
• “The Bloody Pogroms of 1941 in the Western Ukraine” by John-Paul Himka, Professor of History at the University of Alberta and Fellow of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the USHMM
• “Nazi Propaganda on Non-Nazi Themes” by Peter Black, Senior Historian, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM
• “Memory Based on Politics: Comparative Study of Jewish and Armenian Experience” by Dr. Harutyun Marutyan, Leading Researcher, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and 2009-2010 Diane and Howard Wohl Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• “Situating Theresienstadt within the System of Nazi Camps and Ghettos” by Dr. Joseph White, Research Assistant at the Fellow of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• “Jewish Responses to Persecution” by Dr. Juergen Matthaeus, Director of Applied Research at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• “The American Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals: The Mauthausen Concentration Camp Case " by Dr. Tomaz Jardim, 2009-2010 Laurie and Andy Okun Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• "Landscapes of the Holocaust and Postmemory" by Dr. Brett Kaplan, Associate Professor of Comparative and World Literature and Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois and 2009-2010 Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum