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Fall 2024 Jobs Fair

Join on- and off-campus employers for a Jobs Fair hosted by the Office of Career Development! 

Wednesday, September 18, 2024
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
McCarthy Center, Forum and Alumni Room

Americans and the Holocaust: What did Americans Know?

Wednesday, Sept 8, 7 p.m.
DPAC

What did Americans know about the dangers of Nazism, and when did they know it? Americans and the Holocaust answers these questions as it provides a comprehensive look at the American public's responses to Nazism. This talk will focus on the domestic conditions in the United States—including economic depression, isolationism, xenophobia, racism, and antisemitism—that shaped Americans' responses to atrocities abroad. The lecture will also consider why rescuing Europe's Jews never became a priority for the U.S. government or the majority of the American people. 

Dr. Daniel Greene is the Subject Matter Expert at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Adjunct Professor of History at Northwestern University. He curated Americans and the Holocaust, an exhibition that opened in 2018 at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, to commemorate its twenty-fifth anniversary. The exhibition also inspired The U.S. and the Holocaust, an Emmy-winning documentary film directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein, which aired on PBS in the fall of 2022. Greene’s co-edited (with Edward Phillips) book, Americans and the Holocaust: A Reader, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2022. His first book The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity (Indiana University Press, 2011) won the American Jewish Historical Society's Saul Viener Prize in 2012.

A complete list of events connected to the Library's Americans and the Holocaust exhibition can be found here: https://library.framingham.edu/c.php?g=1410348&p=10444136