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First Person
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First Person is a program for the public featuring a series of conversations with Holocaust survivors. These eyewitness accounts unite personal experience with history in a way that is extraordinary in its immediacy and power. Each hour-long program is presented as a live interview with an opportunity for the audience to ask questions.
 First Person

Conversations with survivors
 
What Makes This Building Talk?

In the words of architect James Ingo Freed, the Museum's architecture is intended to be a "resonator of memory." Join Museum educators as they demonstrate how aspects of the building's structure reflect the history housed within its walls.
 What Makes This Building Talk?

Please check at the Information Desk for dates and times.
 


  • Nazi Rise to Power
    This 13-minute film traces Adolf Hitler's and the Nazi Party's ascent to power in Germany, paving the way for the Holocaust and World War II.

  • Liberation, 1945
    This 15-minute film includes the stories of Holocaust survivors and their liberators, soldiers who freed victims from Nazi camps at the end of World War II.

  • Defying Genocide
    This 19-minute film explores what it takes to defy genocide through two stories, one about the Holocaust and the other about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.


 What Films Can We Attend?

From March 17 to July 31, 2008, a daily selection of Museum-produced films will be offered to our visitors. Please pick up a Today at the Museum flyer at the Information Desk for specific show times. Support for the presentation of these films has been provided by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation:
Please check the Calendar for details about more programs both at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and in your state.