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Discover the connection between a young girl's green sweater in the Museum's collection and the Oscar-nominated film.
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More »Between 1933 and 1945, more than 188,000 people were imprisoned at Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, in southern Germany.
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March 3. In Chicago, IL: Join the Chicago Next Generation for a special event at Studio Paris.
March 3. In Chicago, IL: Join the Chicago Next Generation for a special event at Studio Paris.">March 3. In Chicago, IL: Join the Chicago Next Generation for a special event at Studio Paris.']);})();">More »March 6. In Boston, MA: Learn how the Museum’s World Memory Project is helping people research their family history.
March 6. In Boston, MA: Learn how the Museum’s World Memory Project is helping people research their family history.">March 6. In Boston, MA: Learn how the Museum’s World Memory Project is helping people research their family history.']);})();">More »March 11. In Boca Raton, FL: Historian Barbara McDonald Stewart shares the unique perspective provided by the diaries of her father, James G. McDonald, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees during the 1930s and the first US Ambassador to Israel.
March 11. In Boca Raton, FL: Historian Barbara McDonald Stewart shares the unique perspective provided by the diaries of her father, James G. McDonald, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees during the 1930s and the first US Ambassador to Israel.">March 11. In Boca Raton, FL: Historian Barbara McDonald Stewart shares the unique perspective provided by the diaries of her father, James G. McDonald, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees during the 1930s and the first US Ambassador to Israel.']);})();">More »April 25. In Washington, DC: Professor Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs delivers the 2012 Ina Levine Annual Lecture: “The Holocaust and Coming to Terms with the Past in Post-Communist Poland.”
April 25. In Washington, DC: Professor Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs delivers the 2012 Ina Levine Annual Lecture: “The Holocaust and Coming to Terms with the Past in Post-Communist Poland.”">April 25. In Washington, DC: Professor Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs delivers the 2012 Ina Levine Annual Lecture: “The Holocaust and Coming to Terms with the Past in Post-Communist Poland.”']);})();">More »