"Two former employees reported that the USHMM removed a page titled 'Teaching Materials on Nazism and Jim Crow', which included educational resources on the connections between racism in the US and antisemitism in Germany."
"The museum unlisted a YouTube video of a 2018 conversation between a Holocaust survivor and a woman whose father was lynched in Alabama, part of a symposium on 'Bystanders and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South'."
"The USHMM renamed a workshop for college students from 'Fragility of Democracy and the Rise of the Nazis' to 'Before the Holocaust: German Society and the Nazi Rise to Power', indicating a shift in focus."
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has faced accusations of self-censorship to appease the Trump administration. Changes include removing resources on US racism and canceling a workshop on democracy's fragility. Former employees indicated that these actions were taken to avoid potential backlash similar to that faced by the Smithsonian. Notable removals include a webpage on Nazism and Jim Crow, and a YouTube video from a symposium on complicity in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South. The museum also renamed a workshop to downplay its focus on authoritarianism.
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