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National Events

First Person 2019 Series: Arye Ephrath

Washington, DC 11 A.M.

2019 Monna and Otto Weinmann Annual Lecture
Post-Holocaust Trauma and the Creation of PTSD

Washington, DC 7 P.M.

The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between

Beachwood, OH 7 P.M.

Edith Cord “Becoming Edith: The Education of a Hidden Child”

Washington, DC 1 P.M.
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What is genocide?

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

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Statement on San Diego County Shooting

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

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

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