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Americans and the Holocaust: What Did Missourians Know?

Public Program
People look at Washington, DC, newspapers on September 1, 1939—the day Nazi Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II. Harris & Ewing Collection/Library of Congress

People look at Washington, DC, newspapers on September 1, 1939—the day Nazi Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II. Harris & Ewing Collection/Library of Congress

During the 1930s and 1940s, a range of motives, pressures, and fears shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war, and the persecution and murder of Jews in Europe. Join Museum historian Dr. Edna Friedberg for an exploration of these factors through the lens of local newspapers, historical photographs, and public opinion polls from the era.

Speaker
Edna Friedberg, PhD, Historian and Director, Strategic Relationships, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Event Chairs
Dee Dee and Eliot Simon

This program is free and open to the public, but reservations are required.

For more information, please contact the Museum’s Midwest Regional Office at midwest@ushmm.org or 847.433.8099.