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Library Exhibit: Americans and the Holocaust

Event Details

The Evian Conference and the Refugee Crisis: 85 Years Later

Date: Monday, December 4, 2023
Time: 6:00-7:00pm
Speaker: Dr. Diane F. Afoumado, Chief of the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
 


Event held in cooperation with The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Queensborough Community College (CUNY).

In 1938, international diplomats and relief organizations gathered in Evian-les-Bain, France to discuss the growing crisis of German and Austrian Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany. Join us for a special presentation about the significance of the Evian Conference's 85th anniversary and its contemporary implications featuring Dr. Diane Afoumado, Chief of the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)