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    The Escape Artist

    Author and Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland detailed the life of Rudolf Vrba, who spent two years at Auschwitz and became the first Jew to break out of the concentration camp. The Museu…

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    The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz

    Journalist Charlie Inglefield and Yifat Cohen-Meir, daughter of Holocaust survivor Thomas Geve, reflected on Mr. Geve’s over 80 illustrations he made as a young adult that document his life …

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    Into the Forest

    Rebecca Frankel recounted how a Polish family evaded the Nazis by living for two years in the Bialowieza Forest and how they were eventually saved and immigrated to the United States. This p…

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    The Light of Days

    Judy Batalion recounted the Jewish women who served as resistance fighters against the Nazis in Poland during World War II. This was a virtual event hosted by the Museum of Jewish Heritage i…

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    The Volunteer

    Journalist Jack Fairweather recounted the efforts of Witold Pilecki, a member of the Polish resistance during World War II, who volunteered to be deliberately captured and sent to Auschwitz …

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    I Want You to Know We're Still Here

    Esther Safran Foer remembered her childhood as the daughter of Holocaust survivors and her search for lost family members. This was a virtual event hosted by the Museum of Jewish Heritage in…

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    By Chance Alone

    Holocaust survivor Max Eisen reflected on his life and his imprisonment at Auschwitz during World War II.

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    Hitler's Last Hostage

    Mary Lane talked about her book, Hitler’s Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich, in which she recalls Nazi efforts in the 1930s to repress artistic expression and remove …

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    Shores Beyond Shores

    Holocaust survivor Irene Butter reflected on her childhood, being imprisoned in two concentration camps during World War II, and her arrival to the United States in 1945.

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    Samantha Power on America's Role in the World

    Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power talked about the role of the U.S. in the world. In an interview moderated by Abraham Foxman, who served as national director of the Anti-Def…

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    Romantic Violence

    Christian Picciolini talked about his book Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead, in which he recalls his life as a member of the first neo-Nazi skinhead gang. In his book, he d…

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    Reading of Elie Wiesel's Night, Part 3

    A complete reading of the late Elie Wiesel’s Night at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. This is part three of three.

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    Reading of Elie Wiesel's Night, Part 2

    A complete reading of the late Elie Wiesel’s Night at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. This is part two of three.

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    Reading of Elie Wiesel's Night, Part 1

    A complete reading of the late Elie Wiesel’s Night at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. This is part one of three.

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    World War II Photographs

    Alex Kershaw, author of The Liberator spoke with 92-year-old photographer Tony Vaccaro, who smuggled his portable 35mm camera onto the battlefield during World War II and created intimate an…

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    The War on Women in Israel

    Elana Maryles Sztokman, former executive director of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA), talked about her book, The War on Women in Israel: A Story of Religious Radicalism and the …

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    Explaining Hitler and The Zone of Interest

    Ron Rosenbaum talked about the updated edition of his book, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil, about the many theories of how Adolf Hitler formed his ideologies and c…

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    Timeless

    Lucinda Franks talked about her book, Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me, in which she recalls her marriage to Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. In her book, the author remember…

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    New York Jews in the Age of Immigration

    Co-authors Annie Polland and Daniel Soyer talked about their book, Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration 1840-1920. Using photographs and first person accounts, they d…

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    Ethics of Embedded Journalism

    Photojournalists, reporters, and academic scholars talked about the ethics of “embedded” journalists working with military units. They also told descriptive stories of working as journalists…

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