The Big Questions of Holocaust History
• March 18, 2018

The Museum’s 25th anniversary calls for reflection and inquiry. In conversation with Mandel Center Acting Director Wendy Lower, four leading scholars in the field of Holocaust studies will discuss what […]

First Person 2018 Series: Louise Lawrence Israels. Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
• March 1, 2018

Holocaust survivors tell their life stories in their own words, uniting personal experience with history in a way that is extraordinary in its immediacy and power. Each hour-long program features […]

First Person 2018 Series: Peter Gorog. Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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Holocaust survivors tell their life stories in their own words, uniting personal experience with history in a way that is extraordinary in its immediacy and power. Each hour-long program features […]

First Person 2018 Series: Anna Grosz. Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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Holocaust survivors tell their life stories in their own words, uniting personal experience with history in a way that is extraordinary in its immediacy and power. Each hour-long program features […]

First Person 2018 Series: Ruth Kohn. Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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Holocaust survivors tell their life stories in their own words, uniting personal experience with history in a way that is extraordinary in its immediacy and power. Each hour-long program features […]

First Person 2018 Series: Fanny Aizenberg. Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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Holocaust survivors tell their life stories in their own words, uniting personal experience with history in a way that is extraordinary in its immediacy and power. Each hour-long program features […]

First Person 2018 Series: Fritz Gluckstein. Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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Holocaust survivors tell their life stories in their own words, uniting personal experience with history in a way that is extraordinary in its immediacy and power. Each hour-long program features […]

Spring Arts Preview
• February 21, 2018

By Ari Post and Richard Selden VISUAL ARTS SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM Do Ho Suh: Almost Home March 16 – August 5 Internationally renowned for his “fabric architecture,” which explores […]

By Thanksgiving We Were Americans: German Jewish Refugees Remember the Holocaust
• January 31, 2018

How did German Jewish refugees recall their past? Centered on those who fled their homes before the mass deportations began and resettled in the United States before the end of […]

Saints and Liars: American Relief and Rescue Workers during the Nazi Era
• January 22, 2018

Americans traveled around the globe to offer relief, and to rescue those targeted by Nazi Germany and its allies. Who were these intrepid souls who, unlike so many of their […]