After Trump took office last year, the US Holocaust Museum quietly removed educational material about American racism

[Celerity]

from its website and canceled a workshop on the "fragility of democracy".

After Trump took office last year, the US Holocaust Museum quietly removed educational material about American racism from its website and canceled a workshop on the "fragility of democracy," @iriesentner.bsky.social reports. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt.bsky.social) 2026-04-05T18:00:20.508Z

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/05/trump-holocaust-museum-00859274



In the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington quietly removed from its website educational resources about American racism and canceled a workshop about the “fragility of democracy.” The changes, which have not been previously reported, came as Trump cracked down on what he called “corrosive ideology” at the Smithsonian Institution, demanding a slew of alterations at the world’s largest museum network to more closely align its content with his worldview. They also coincided with the administration’s efforts to remove content related to diversity, equity and inclusion from federal websites.

Unlike his posture toward the Smithsonian, Trump has not publicly commented on the USHMM’s content or publicly called for any modifications. But two former museum employees who left amid the changes told POLITICO they believed the museum was altering its content preemptively, so as to not draw unwanted negative attention from the Trump administration. Both were granted anonymity due to fear of professional retaliation. “It seems like they were trying to proactively fall in line as to not then be forced to change,” one of the people said.

The museum pulled from its website a page called “Teaching Materials on Nazism and Jim Crow” at some point after Aug. 29, 2025, the last time the page was captured on the Internet Archive. That page provided lesson plans and resources about the connections between American de jure racism and the Nazi regime, including links to sites about “African American Soldiers during World War II” and “Afro-Germans during the Holocaust,” among other topics. It also linked to a 2018 video on the museum’s YouTube channel featuring a conversation between a Holocaust survivor and a woman whose father was lynched in Alabama. That video is now unlisted, meaning it does not show up on the USHMM’s YouTube page but is still accessible via direct URL.

Leaders at the museum also renamed a one-day civic education workshop designed 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.” In an email, obtained by POLITICO, between a senior staff member at the museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education and a staffer planning the workshop, the senior staff member said the change was necessary due to “concerns regarding how the term fragility may be perceived or interpreted in the current climate.”

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[Botany]

1. We have seen this movie before.

Hitler got support in his war on the Jews via Henry Ford’s magazine “the International Jew” and
he and his supporters studied America’s “Jim Crow Laws.”

“Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It.” George Santayana Rough Quote.

Trump and company are monsters. Fascism is not coming to America it is here.

[Deep State Witch]

2. They Are the LAST Institution

That I would have expected to bend the knee.

[Botany]

4. Congress has acquiesced the power of the purse to Trump.

Stopping museums from doing their jobs which is to cover history impartially. And
now they are trying to rewrite history like hanging pictures of one the biggest traitors
in American History, Robert E Lee, @ West Point. I don’t know if America can survive
this crap.

[ITAL]

5. They were hanging pictures of Lee at West Point a long time ago

Hell, Eisenhower famously looked to Lee as a hero and had a picture of him up in his office.. It was only fairly recently they started taking them down.

[Botany]

7. You are right but once they took them down and got rid of the Confederate Generals names from our

… military bases because it was the right thing to do that should have been it.

[spanone]

3. What dicatators do, Alex?

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

6. Ugh