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First Person 2019 Series: Manny Mandel

Washington, DC 11 A.M.

2019 National Tribute Dinner

Washington, DC 6 P.M.

First Person 2019 Series: Anna Grosz

Washington, DC 11 A.M.

First Person 2019 Series: Joel Nommick

Washington, DC 11 A.M.
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What is genocide?

The word, as we know it, didn’t exist until 1944.

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Serge and Beate Klarsfeld and the Syria Civil Defence to Receive Museum’s 2019 Elie Wiesel Award

Museum Statement on International Roma Day

“The Unwanted” Follows the Attempts of Jewish Families to Flee Nazi Germany and Reach the U.S.

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