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Join the Center for Jewish History and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for a Research Sprint!

In collaboration with #HistoryUnfolded: U.S. Newspapers and the Holocaust, a program of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), CJH will be hosting a ‘Research Sprint’– a day for Citizen Historians to conduct research in newspaper collections and investigate U.S. press coverage for specific Holocaust events in 1938 on March 18, 2018. Data that is uncovered for this project helps the USHMM to discover…

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NYT: Italian Praised for Saving Jews Is Now Seen as Nazi Collaborator

NYT: Italian Praised for Saving Jews Is Now Seen as Nazi Collaborator Information about Giovanni Palatucci, celebrated for saving Jews, is being removed from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in light of evidence that the tales may be untrue. Centro Primo Levi here at the Center for Jewish History “stated that a research panel of more than a dozen scholars who reviewed nearly…

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Telling Untold Stories: Sephardic Jews & the Holocaust

Professor Devin Naar was recently named to the Center for Jewish History’s Academic Advisory Council. This interview with him was originally published on StroumJewishStudies.org, the website for the Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington, and is reposted here with permission. ————   Telling Untold Stories: Sephardic Jews & the Holocaust   Prof. Devin Naar, whose interest in Sephardic Holocaust history led him on…

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