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National Events

Who Will Write Our History
Documenting Truth in the Warsaw Ghetto
Film Screening and Panel Discussion

New York, NY 7 P.M.

Reconsidering the Catholic Church and the Holocaust
Special Film Screening and Discussion

Washington, DC 7 P.M.

Crying Hands: The Deaf Experience under Nazi Oppression

La Jolla, CA 7:45 P.M.

2019 J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture
At the Margin of the Holocaust? Writing the Biography of a Mischling in the German Foreign Office: Vollrath von Maltzan

Washington, DC 7 P.M.
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Maziar Bahari To Receive Museum’s 2020 Elie Wiesel Award

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Warns of Increased Sectarian Violence in Syria

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Outraged at German Synagogue Attack

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