Congress established the Days of Remembrance as the nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims. This year’s Holocaust remembrance week is May 1–8, 2011. The theme designated by the Museum for the 2011 observance is Justice and Accountability in the Face of Genocide: What Have We Learned?
The Boy: A Holocaust Story by Dan Porat
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response by Peter Balakian
Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide by Gérard Prunier
The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II by Alex Kershaw
The Last Jew of Treblinka: A Survivor’s Memory, 1942-1943 by Chil Rajchman
Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle & John Prendergast
A Promise at Sobibór: A Jewish Boy’s Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland by Philip “Fiszel” Bialowitz, with Joseph Bialowitz
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility by Taner Akçam
Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends by Tom Segev
The Witness House: Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa During the Nuremberg Trials by Christiane Kohl