Americans and the Holocaust
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, October 3rd, from 6PM - 7PM
What did Americans know about Nazism during the 1930s and ’40s? How did the US government and the American people respond?
Many people today assume that Americans of the 1930s and ’40s knew little about Nazi Germany, especially its plan to destroy Europe’s Jews. This assumption is not correct. On the contrary, Americans had access to a great deal of information about the dangers of Nazism, including knowing much about the persecution of Jews as it was taking place. But they did not agree about how to respond. During the years of Nazi rule in Germany, Americans vehemently debated whether to admit refugees, intervene in war, or rescue Jews targeted for murder.
Join us for a discussion of this history with Daniel Greene, adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University and curator of a new special exhibition on Americans and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Liesl Olson, director of Chicago Studies at the Newberry.
For more information, please visit https://www.newberry.org/10032018-americans-and-holocaust
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