Ex-Staffers Say the US Holocaust Museum Altered Website and Canceled Programming to Avoid Angering Trump
Two former employees of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) told Politico that the Washington, D.C., institution altered website content and canceled or renamed programming in ways they believed were preemptive efforts to avoid angering President Donald Trump’s administration. Politico reported that a USHMM page titled “Teaching Materials on Nazism and Jim Crow” was removed sometime after August 29, 2025 (its last Internet Archive capture), and that a 2018 YouTube video about a Holocaust survivor and the daughter of a lynching victim was also removed from the museum’s channel though it remains viewable. A planned workshop originally titled “Fragility of Democracy and the Rise of the Nazis” was renamed “Before the Holocaust: German Society and the Nazi Rise to Power,” with an internal email citing concerns about how the word “fragility” might be perceived, and the workshop was later canceled about six months into Trump’s second term. USHMM said the Trump administration had not requested changes, while Politico also noted Trump replaced museum co-founder Stuart Eizenstat with Republican lobbyist Jeffrey Miller after purging several board members appointed by former President Joe Biden.
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