In Americans and the Holocaust, a special exhibition he curated at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., historian Daniel Greene reveals just exactly what Americans knew about the Nazi regime’s persecution and murder of Europe’s Jews, and when. The exhibition dispels some of this history’s myths and misconceptions, including that Americans “knew nothing” about the threat of Nazism. Greene will explore Americans’ responses to Nazism, ask why rescue never became a priority, and consider contemporary parallels to this troubling history.

This program is presented in partnership with the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern University.