Project MUSE and USHMM Announce Landmark Initiative

WASHINGTON, DC – Project MUSE, a division of Johns Hopkins University Press, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are proud to announce a landmark initiative to host the most comprehensive scholarly resource on Nazi persecutory sites, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 (ECG), as a new open access, fully searchable, digital publication. Hosting the ECG on the Project MUSE platform will allow users to dynamically engage with this empirically grounded prodigious resource of thousands of camps, ghettos, and other sites of persecution operated by the Nazis and their allies. 

Project MUSE and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are committed to broadening access to and increasing engagement with this vital scholarship. This new digital publication will be an invaluable resource for wide-ranging audiences including scholars, researchers, Holocaust survivors and their descendents, digital humanists, educators, students, librarians, archivists, nonprofits, and the general public. Users will gain straightforward entrance to extensive bibliographic citations comprising research in more than a dozen languages and varied source bases including material in hundreds of archival collections, survivor and eyewitness testimonies, memoirs, diaries, memory books, and up-to-date scholarship.

The digital publication will launch on Project MUSE in early 2025 with the content from the first four volumes of the ECG, published in print between 2009 and 2022, and currently available as open access PDFs on Project MUSE. The publication will add new entries continuously to eventually encompass research from all seven planned volumes as well as newly updated content that incorporates previously inaccessible and undiscovered sources.

For more information about Project MUSE and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, visit the Project MUSE website to learn more.

About Project MUSE:

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. With a mission to advance knowledge and inspire intellectual exploration, Project MUSE collaborates with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide to provide access to high-quality academic resources. 

About the US Holocaust Memorial Museum:

A nonpartisan federal, educational institution, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, dedicated to ensuring the permanence of Holocaust memory, understanding, and relevance. Through the power of Holocaust history, the Museum challenges leaders and individuals worldwide to think critically about their role in society and to confront antisemitism and other forms of hate, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity. For more information, visit ushmm.org.