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1. Nazi Artwork
Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of US Army Center of Military History. In the Beginning Was the Word ... Museum, courtesy of Wendie Theus After the War After the Great German Art Exhibition, Hitler acquired In ... Hermann Otto Hoyer’s painting, In the Beginning Was the Word (Am Anfang War das Wort), was one of ... of Fine Arts in Munich. One of Germany’s finest art schools, the academy trained well-known
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2. Teacher Resources
all oral histories and other videos in the exhibition. Poster Set This set of posters is based ... an introduction to the key themes of the exhibition (5:30 min). Experiencing History This online ... students. Several collections in Experiencing History address the theme of Everyday Life: Roles, Motives ... What Was the Holocaust? The Holocaust was the persecution and murder of European Jews by the Nazi
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3. Charles Coughlin
.” US Holocaust Memorial Museum. In this September 1940 issue of Social Justice, Coughlin called the ... justified. Claiming to merely be a “student of history,” he traced “the causes of the ... Catholic priest and radio celebrity based in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, Michigan. His sermons, aired ... on Sundays, often featured populist, anti-Communist, and antisemitic claims. At the peak of his
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4. Herta Griffel
her mother—she died after being deported to Nazi-occupied Poland—and was one of the only children in ... the SS Excambion in December 1940. She was one of nine children traveling with a chaperone. All the ... Maryland, 1943. Courtesy of Herta Baitch. Herta lived with the Baers for six months. After Mrs. Baer gave ... new clothes as she grew out of her European ones. Herta adjusted to life in the United States and did
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5. Eleanor Roosevelt
Roosevelt in 1943. Courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY ... Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY. “First Lady of the World ... Political Voices Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States for ... her social and political influence to bring domestic and international crises to the attention of the
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6. Henry Morgenthau Jr.
the greatest crimes in history, the slaughter of the Jewish people in Europe, is continuing unabated ... ’s secretary of the treasury and close friend, was the only Jewish member of the cabinet. Protective of his ... ’s mass murder of Jews to the United States. In January 1944, Morgenthau finally decided to go to the ... White House and demand, as one of his colleagues called it, “a new deal.” Secretary of the Treasury
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7. Raymond Geist
“annihilation of the Jews,” but his warnings were largely ignored in Washington. Raymond Geist, leaving the ... I would have little influence on the gates of the concentration camps, which now and then I manage ... seeking to alleviate the lot of Germany’s half million Jews. He instructed his Jewish companions to ... refugees who fled to the United States in the nineteenth century, Geist had a deep understanding of German