Thursday21Oct 2021

Themes from “Americans and the Holocaust” Exhibit, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Thursday, October 21, 2021 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. PST
2021-10-21 19:00 2021-10-21 20:30 America/Los_Angeles Themes from “Americans and the Holocaust” Exhibit, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Go to event listing for more details: https://events.chapman.edu/84116 VIRTUAL Virtual location Ashley Bloomfield RodgersCenter@chapman.edu

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Keynote Address for the Conference for Holocaust Education Centers
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Themes from “Americans and the Holocaust” Exhibit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

October 21 • 7 p.m.
VIRTUAL EVENT
https://chapman.zoom.us/j/94723759096

 

Rebecca Erbelding, Ph.D.
Historian, Archivist and Curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, difficult questions continue to be asked—and continue to elicit differing answers—about what might have been done to save more Jews during the Holocaust. Did knowledge of the persecution and later of mass murder and genocide carry with it a moral necessity to intervene regardless of other considerations and circumstances? This wide-ranging exhibit poses this question from many angles and through many topics: What signal was sent to the Nazis in May 1939 when U.S. authorities turned away the refugee ship the St. Louis carrying some 937 passengers, most of them German Jews? Would more extensive coverage by the American media have influenced the Nazis’ actions? Should the U.S., even during the Depression, have made it easier for Jews desperately seeking refuge to come to the United States?

In her presentation, historian, archivist and curator Rebecca Erbelding will explore key themes and topics of the exhibit and examine the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide. Dr. Erbelding’s own research focuses specifically on American responses to the Holocaust. She is the author of the authoritative history of the War Refugee Board, Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe which received the 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Writing Based on Archival Material.

 

You can contact the event organizer, Ashley Bloomfield at RodgersCenter@chapman.edu or (714) 628-7377.

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