(America and the Holocaust) American Responses to the Holocaust
(America and the Holocaust) American Responses to the Holocaust
Powell Professional Development Series on Holocaust Education 2022 | Holocaust Center for Humanity
Presenters
- Rebecca Erbelding
Description
America and the Holocaust
Offered in conjunction with the corresponding exhibit on display at Gonzaga in Spokane.
Exhibit is from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Image: Jewish refugee children wave at the Statue of Liberty as their ship steams into New York Harbor, 1939. These children are among a group of 50 Jewish refugees from Vienna who will be placed with foster families in Philadelphia. Photo from the USHMM.
September 8, 2022
American Responses to the Holocaust
5:15-6:15pm (PT)
Presented by Rebecca Erbelding, Historian and Author, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
In "American Responses to the Holocaust," Rebecca Erbelding will explore the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war, and the persecution and murder of Jews in Europe during the 1930s and ‘40s. She will describe the information about the Holocaust that was available to Americans as it was happening; the ways in which Americans responded to the refugee crisis in the late 1930s; the debates among Americans over intervention in World War II; and what Americans did after it was clear that mass murder was happening.
Rebecca Erbelding has been a historian, curator, and archivist at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum for the past nineteen years, and served as the lead historian on the Museum's special exhibition, Americans and the Holocaust. She holds a PhD in American history from George Mason University and is the author of Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe (Doubleday, 2018), which won the National Jewish Book Award for excellence in writing based on archival research.
Event Notes
Dates
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Thu, September 8 20225:15 PM - 6:15 PMOnline (via Zoom)
Registration
Event # 140172
- Price
- Free
- Registration Ends
- Wednesday Sep 7, 2022 5:15 PM
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Professional Hours
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