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Americans and the Holocaust:

What Did America Know? With Dr. Daniel Greene, Curator

Exhibition curator Daniel Greene will focus on Americans' responses to the Holocaust as it was happening. The public talk will be followed by an exhibition tour.

What did Americans know about the dangers of Nazism and when did they know it? This talk by exhibition curator Daniel Greene will focus on Americans' responses to the Holocaust as it was happening. It will ask why rescuing Europe's Jews never became a priority for the US government or the majority of the American people. The public talk will be followed by an exhibition tour.

Daniel Greene is curator of Americans and the Holocaust and Adjunct Professor of History at Northwestern University. The traveling version of Americans and the Holocaust is visiting 100 libraries across the United States between 2022 and 2026. 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 book (co-edited with Edward Phillips), Americans and the Holocaust: A Reader, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2022.

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