Speaker: Dr. Rafael Medoff
Director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, in Washington, DC
PART 1: The Refugee Crisis, 1933-1941 Wednesday, April 29, 7:30 PM
- American immigration policy
- U.S. relations with Nazi Germany
- The Evian conference
- Responses to Kristallnacht
- The Voyage of the St. Louis
- The Wagner-Roger child refugee bill.
PART 2: The Holocaust, 1941-1945 Wednesday, May 6, 7:30 PM
- Media coverage of the mass murder
- Opportunities for rescue
- American Jewish responses, including
- The Bermuda conference
- The failure to bomb Auschwitz
- Antisemitism and U.S. policy