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Dave Marchick is the Dean of American University's Kogod School of Business and a seasoned leader with experience across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. He spent over a decade as Managing Director at The Carlyle Group, where he served on the management committee and advanced the firm's sustainability and diversity efforts. In government, he held senior roles in both the Biden and Clinton administrations, including leadership positions at the State Department, the White House, and the Development Finance Corporation. Dave directed the Center for Presidential Transition during the 2020 cycle and later launched the Transition Lab podcast and co-authored The Peaceful Transition of Power. A dedicated advocate for civil rights and historical preservation, he has served on the boards of the Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Park Foundation. Dave holds degrees from George Washington University, the LBJ School at UT Austin, and UC San Diego.In this conversation, we discuss:How Dean Dave Marchick is helping to infuse AI across the curriculum at American University's Kogod School of Business.The resistance and cultural shifts required to get faculty on board with AI adoption.How students are learning to prompt, critique, and collaborate with AI from their first semester (and how it's reshaping classroom dynamics).Why professionalism, communication, and negotiation are now prioritized as “skills of the future”.How Kogod is thinking about measuring the real-world impact of AI education beyond the classroom.Lessons from U.S. presidential transitions and what they reveal about leadership during critical moments.Resources:Subscribe to the AI & The Future of Work Newsletter: https://aiandwork.beehiiv.com/subscribe Connect with Dave on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-marchick/ AI fun fact article: https://www.psu.edu/news/campus-life/story/cheat-thon-contest-explores-ais-strengths-and-flaws-higher-education On what it was like to co-author a book with ChatGPT: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bob-rogers-ai-expert-physicist-author-and-ceo-of-oii/id1476885647?i=1000606108950 Other episodes mentioned in the show:Episode with George Sivulka [Hebbia CEO]Episode with Tom Wheeler [Former FCC Chairman and author of Techlash]Episode with Chris Caren [Turnitin CEO]Read Dave Marchick's book: The Peaceful Transfer of Power: An Oral History of America's Presidential Transitions 

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Tuesday, April 29, and delivers a special show breaking down President Trump's first 100 days in office. Plus, Melber reports on Trump's firing of a Biden appointees from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. James Carville, Mark Leibovich, Douglas Brinkley and Christina Greer join.

In our news wrap Tuesday, Harvard announced it will review academic offerings and policies in response to internal reports about antisemitism and Islamophobia on campus, the Senate confirmed David Perdue as the U.S. ambassador to China and the Trump administration dismissed many of former President Biden's nominees to the board that oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Guest Matt Ence is a teacher at Bountiful High School in Bountiful, UT. Matt retired from the military in 2017, when he began his teaching career. He teaches a course on the Holocaust, as well as courses in AP World History and US History. Matt became a Museum Teacher Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2023. Summary Matt discusses teaching a dedicated Holocaust course. He covers the chronology of events from Hitler's rise to post-liberation challenges using survivor testimonies, primary sources, and interactive activities. Matt emphasizes personalizing the Holocaust beyond statistics, exploring collaborators and bystanders alongside perpetrators, and connecting this history to other genocides to help students recognize warning signs and develop empathy for different groups. Three Important Takeaways Teaching chronologically helps students understand cause-and-effect relationships in Holocaust history, while personal testimonies humanize the statistics of 6 million victims. Holocaust education should include an examination of four groups: perpetrators, collaborators, bystanders, and rescuers, showing the complexity of human choices during this period. Connecting Holocaust history to other genocides helps students recognize warning signs and potentially prevent future atrocities through informed action. Contact/Social Media Matt's email: matthew.ence@gmail.com U.S. Holocaust Museum's website: https://www.ushmm.org/ Matt featured in Medium  Museum's Social media: https://www.instagram.com/holocaustmuseum/ https://www.youtube.com/ushmm https://www.twitter.com/holocaustmuseum https://www.facebook.com/holocaustmuseum Yad Vashem

Dr. Robert J. Wolf, award-winning author of Not a Real Enemy, shares powerful stories of survival, resilience, and the fight against oppression. As a guest on I Am Refocused Radio, he has brought awareness to his father's remarkable escape from both Nazi and communist persecution in Hungary. This podcast goes deeper—featuring conversations with historians, educators, and thought leaders to explore the lasting impact of the Holocaust, the rise of modern antisemitism, and the parallels between history and today's world. Through compelling discussions, Dr. Wolf ensures that these crucial stories are remembered, understood, and used to inspire future generations.Dr. Robert J. Wolf is an award-winning author, physician, and advocate for Holocaust education. His critically acclaimed book, Not a Real Enemy: The True Story of a Hungarian Jewish Man's Fight for Freedom, chronicles the extraordinary journey of his father, Ervin Wolf, who survived both Nazi and communist persecution in Hungary before making a daring escape to freedom. The book has received multiple prestigious honors, including the Nautilus Book Award, the National Indie Excellence Award, the Living Now Book Award, and the Readers' Favorite Book Award for 2023.A graduate of Tufts University (B.S. in Biology and Psychology, 1984) and the University of Michigan Medical School (1988), Dr. Wolf has worked in the field of radiology for over three decades. His commitment to preserving Holocaust history and educating future generations is deeply personal—his mother, Judit Wolf, was featured in the Survivors of the Shoah documentary.Dr. Wolf actively promotes Not a Real Enemy as a vital educational resource, advocating for its inclusion in academic curricula, particularly in light of rising antisemitism. His book is available at major institutions, including the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. He has donated copies to Yad Vashem, the Florida Holocaust Museum, the Imperial War Museum in London, and many other organizations worldwide.In addition to his writing and medical career, Dr. Wolf frequently appears in media interviews, sharing insights on history, antisemitism, and global conflicts. His work draws important parallels between past and present, highlighting the enduring relevance of his father's story in today's world. A portion of his book proceeds is donated to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in honor of his late parents, both Holocaust survivors and educators.For more information, interviews, or speaking engagements, Dr. Wolf invites readers to visit his YouTube channel, Robert J Wolf MD, or explore his book, available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, and Amsterdam Publishers.https://mybook.to/I3hEA5http://robertjwolfmd.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/i-am-refocused-radio--2671113/support.

Join America's Roundtable (https://americasrt.com/) radio co-hosts Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy with Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat who delivered a eulogy at President Jimmy Carter's funeral at the Washington National Cathedral. Ambassador Eizenstat shares about Carter's domestic and international successes including the Camp David Accords and how the former president's sincere words and developed personal relationship made an impact to key principals when the talks were about to fail. Carter's tireless efforts led the foundational cornerstone for treaties with Israel's Arab neighbors including Jordan and later through the Trump Administration's Abraham Accords. Ambassador Eizenstat also shares about his personal friendship with the former president. He was at Jimmy Carter's side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White House, where he served as Chief Domestic Policy Adviser. He was directly involved in all domestic and economic decisions as well as in many foreign policy ones. The conversation on America's Roundtable also brings to the forefront President Carter's bold economic reforms and how he came to be called the "Champion of Deregulation" by former Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX), a fiscal conservative leader. In an op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal, Senator Gramm stated, " The Carter administration began oil-price deregulation using its regulatory powers and set in place the gradual deregulation of natural-gas prices with the 1978 Natural Gas Policy Act. And while the deregulation of the communications industry was driven by technological change, court decisions, regulatory action and finally legislation, the Carter regulatory reform through the Federal Communications Commission made competition the driving force in the development of policy. Energy deregulation, championed by Mr. Carter and then by Ronald Reagan, produced abundant oil and gas supplies." Brief bio: During a decade and a half of public service in six U.S. administrations, Ambassador Eizenstat has held a number of key senior positions, including Chief White House Domestic Policy Adviser to President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981); U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration (1993-2001). His recommendation to President Carter to create the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust headed by Elie Wiesel led directly to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, for which he is recognized as a key founder. Ambassador Eizenstat is an author of "President Carter: The White House Years" and "The Art of Diplomacy" During the Trump administration, he was appointed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as Expert Adviser to the State Department on Holocaust-Era Issues (2018-2021). In the Biden administration, serving as Special Adviser to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Holocaust Issues, he played a major role in the negotiation of the Best Practices for the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art (2024), now supported by 25 countries. He was appointed by President Biden as Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council (2022-present). Since 2009, he has served as pro bono Special Negotiator for the Jewish Claims Conference in negotiations with the German government, obtaining billions of dollars of benefits for poor Holocaust survivors, for home care, social and medical services, enhanced pensions, hardship payments, child survivor and Kindertransport survivors, special supplemental payments for the poorest of the poor, and worldwide educational benefits. americasrt.com (https://americasrt.com/) https://ileaderssummit.org/ | https://jerusalemleaderssummit.com/ America's Roundtable on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/americas-roundtable/id1518878472 X: @ileaderssummit @NatashaSrdoc @JoelAnandUSA @supertalk America's Roundtable is co-hosted by Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy, co-founders of International Leaders Summit and the Jerusalem Leaders Summit. America's Roundtable (https://americasrt.com/) radio program - a strategic initiative of International Leaders Summit, focuses on America's economy, healthcare reform, rule of law, security and trade, and its strategic partnership with rule of law nations around the world. The radio program features high-ranking US administration officials, cabinet members, members of Congress, state government officials, distinguished diplomats, business and media leaders and influential thinkers from around the world. Tune into America's Roundtable Radio program from Washington, DC via live streaming on Saturday mornings via 65 radio stations at 7:30 A.M. (ET) on Lanser Broadcasting Corporation covering the Michigan and the Midwest market, and at 7:30 A.M. (CT) on SuperTalk Mississippi — SuperTalk.FM reaching listeners in every county within the State of Mississippi, and neighboring states in the South including Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee. Listen to America's Roundtable on digital platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, Google and other key online platforms. Listen live, Saturdays at 7:30 A.M. (CT) on SuperTalk | https://www.supertalk.fm

By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture. But beginning in the mid-eighties it reemerged with a vengeance, and for nearly fifteen years World War II was ubiquitous across US popular and political culture. In Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State (Penn State University Press, 2024), Dr. Barbara A. Biesecker explores the prestige and rhetorical power of the “Good War,” revealing how it was retooled to restore a new kind of social equilibrium to the United States. Biesecker analyzes prominent cases of World War II remembrance, including the canceled exhibit of the Enola Gay at the National Air and Space Museum in 1995 and its replacement, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Situating these popular memory texts within the culture and history wars of the day and the broader framework of US political and economic life, Dr. Biesecker argues that, with the notable exception of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, these reinventions of the Good War worked rhetorically to restore a strong sense of national identity and belonging fitted to the neoliberal nationalist agenda. By tracing the links between the popular retooling of World War II and the national state fantasy, and by putting the lessons of Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, and their successors to work for a rhetorical-political analysis of the present, Dr. Biesecker not only explains the emergence and strength of the MAGA movement but also calls attention to the power of public memory to shape and contest ethnonational identity today. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture. But beginning in the mid-eighties it reemerged with a vengeance, and for nearly fifteen years World War II was ubiquitous across US popular and political culture. In Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State (Penn State University Press, 2024), Dr. Barbara A. Biesecker explores the prestige and rhetorical power of the “Good War,” revealing how it was retooled to restore a new kind of social equilibrium to the United States. Biesecker analyzes prominent cases of World War II remembrance, including the canceled exhibit of the Enola Gay at the National Air and Space Museum in 1995 and its replacement, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Situating these popular memory texts within the culture and history wars of the day and the broader framework of US political and economic life, Dr. Biesecker argues that, with the notable exception of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, these reinventions of the Good War worked rhetorically to restore a strong sense of national identity and belonging fitted to the neoliberal nationalist agenda. By tracing the links between the popular retooling of World War II and the national state fantasy, and by putting the lessons of Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, and their successors to work for a rhetorical-political analysis of the present, Dr. Biesecker not only explains the emergence and strength of the MAGA movement but also calls attention to the power of public memory to shape and contest ethnonational identity today. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture. But beginning in the mid-eighties it reemerged with a vengeance, and for nearly fifteen years World War II was ubiquitous across US popular and political culture. In Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State (Penn State University Press, 2024), Dr. Barbara A. Biesecker explores the prestige and rhetorical power of the “Good War,” revealing how it was retooled to restore a new kind of social equilibrium to the United States. Biesecker analyzes prominent cases of World War II remembrance, including the canceled exhibit of the Enola Gay at the National Air and Space Museum in 1995 and its replacement, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Situating these popular memory texts within the culture and history wars of the day and the broader framework of US political and economic life, Dr. Biesecker argues that, with the notable exception of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, these reinventions of the Good War worked rhetorically to restore a strong sense of national identity and belonging fitted to the neoliberal nationalist agenda. By tracing the links between the popular retooling of World War II and the national state fantasy, and by putting the lessons of Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, and their successors to work for a rhetorical-political analysis of the present, Dr. Biesecker not only explains the emergence and strength of the MAGA movement but also calls attention to the power of public memory to shape and contest ethnonational identity today. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture. But beginning in the mid-eighties it reemerged with a vengeance, and for nearly fifteen years World War II was ubiquitous across US popular and political culture. In Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State (Penn State University Press, 2024), Dr. Barbara A. Biesecker explores the prestige and rhetorical power of the “Good War,” revealing how it was retooled to restore a new kind of social equilibrium to the United States. Biesecker analyzes prominent cases of World War II remembrance, including the canceled exhibit of the Enola Gay at the National Air and Space Museum in 1995 and its replacement, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Situating these popular memory texts within the culture and history wars of the day and the broader framework of US political and economic life, Dr. Biesecker argues that, with the notable exception of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, these reinventions of the Good War worked rhetorically to restore a strong sense of national identity and belonging fitted to the neoliberal nationalist agenda. By tracing the links between the popular retooling of World War II and the national state fantasy, and by putting the lessons of Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, and their successors to work for a rhetorical-political analysis of the present, Dr. Biesecker not only explains the emergence and strength of the MAGA movement but also calls attention to the power of public memory to shape and contest ethnonational identity today. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture. But beginning in the mid-eighties it reemerged with a vengeance, and for nearly fifteen years World War II was ubiquitous across US popular and political culture. In Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State (Penn State University Press, 2024), Dr. Barbara A. Biesecker explores the prestige and rhetorical power of the “Good War,” revealing how it was retooled to restore a new kind of social equilibrium to the United States. Biesecker analyzes prominent cases of World War II remembrance, including the canceled exhibit of the Enola Gay at the National Air and Space Museum in 1995 and its replacement, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Situating these popular memory texts within the culture and history wars of the day and the broader framework of US political and economic life, Dr. Biesecker argues that, with the notable exception of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, these reinventions of the Good War worked rhetorically to restore a strong sense of national identity and belonging fitted to the neoliberal nationalist agenda. By tracing the links between the popular retooling of World War II and the national state fantasy, and by putting the lessons of Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, and their successors to work for a rhetorical-political analysis of the present, Dr. Biesecker not only explains the emergence and strength of the MAGA movement but also calls attention to the power of public memory to shape and contest ethnonational identity today. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture. But beginning in the mid-eighties it reemerged with a vengeance, and for nearly fifteen years World War II was ubiquitous across US popular and political culture. In Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State (Penn State University Press, 2024), Dr. Barbara A. Biesecker explores the prestige and rhetorical power of the “Good War,” revealing how it was retooled to restore a new kind of social equilibrium to the United States. Biesecker analyzes prominent cases of World War II remembrance, including the canceled exhibit of the Enola Gay at the National Air and Space Museum in 1995 and its replacement, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Situating these popular memory texts within the culture and history wars of the day and the broader framework of US political and economic life, Dr. Biesecker argues that, with the notable exception of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, these reinventions of the Good War worked rhetorically to restore a strong sense of national identity and belonging fitted to the neoliberal nationalist agenda. By tracing the links between the popular retooling of World War II and the national state fantasy, and by putting the lessons of Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, and their successors to work for a rhetorical-political analysis of the present, Dr. Biesecker not only explains the emergence and strength of the MAGA movement but also calls attention to the power of public memory to shape and contest ethnonational identity today. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture. But beginning in the mid-eighties it reemerged with a vengeance, and for nearly fifteen years World War II was ubiquitous across US popular and political culture. In Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State (Penn State University Press, 2024), Dr. Barbara A. Biesecker explores the prestige and rhetorical power of the “Good War,” revealing how it was retooled to restore a new kind of social equilibrium to the United States. Biesecker analyzes prominent cases of World War II remembrance, including the canceled exhibit of the Enola Gay at the National Air and Space Museum in 1995 and its replacement, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Situating these popular memory texts within the culture and history wars of the day and the broader framework of US political and economic life, Dr. Biesecker argues that, with the notable exception of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, these reinventions of the Good War worked rhetorically to restore a strong sense of national identity and belonging fitted to the neoliberal nationalist agenda. By tracing the links between the popular retooling of World War II and the national state fantasy, and by putting the lessons of Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, and their successors to work for a rhetorical-political analysis of the present, Dr. Biesecker not only explains the emergence and strength of the MAGA movement but also calls attention to the power of public memory to shape and contest ethnonational identity today. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture. But beginning in the mid-eighties it reemerged with a vengeance, and for nearly fifteen years World War II was ubiquitous across US popular and political culture. In Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State (Penn State University Press, 2024), Dr. Barbara A. Biesecker explores the prestige and rhetorical power of the “Good War,” revealing how it was retooled to restore a new kind of social equilibrium to the United States. Biesecker analyzes prominent cases of World War II remembrance, including the canceled exhibit of the Enola Gay at the National Air and Space Museum in 1995 and its replacement, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Situating these popular memory texts within the culture and history wars of the day and the broader framework of US political and economic life, Dr. Biesecker argues that, with the notable exception of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, these reinventions of the Good War worked rhetorically to restore a strong sense of national identity and belonging fitted to the neoliberal nationalist agenda. By tracing the links between the popular retooling of World War II and the national state fantasy, and by putting the lessons of Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, and their successors to work for a rhetorical-political analysis of the present, Dr. Biesecker not only explains the emergence and strength of the MAGA movement but also calls attention to the power of public memory to shape and contest ethnonational identity today. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture

By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture. But beginning in the mid-eighties it reemerged with a vengeance, and for nearly fifteen years World War II was ubiquitous across US popular and political culture. In Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State (Penn State University Press, 2024), Dr. Barbara A. Biesecker explores the prestige and rhetorical power of the “Good War,” revealing how it was retooled to restore a new kind of social equilibrium to the United States. Biesecker analyzes prominent cases of World War II remembrance, including the canceled exhibit of the Enola Gay at the National Air and Space Museum in 1995 and its replacement, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Situating these popular memory texts within the culture and history wars of the day and the broader framework of US political and economic life, Dr. Biesecker argues that, with the notable exception of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, these reinventions of the Good War worked rhetorically to restore a strong sense of national identity and belonging fitted to the neoliberal nationalist agenda. By tracing the links between the popular retooling of World War II and the national state fantasy, and by putting the lessons of Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, and their successors to work for a rhetorical-political analysis of the present, Dr. Biesecker not only explains the emergence and strength of the MAGA movement but also calls attention to the power of public memory to shape and contest ethnonational identity today. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

Our third episode of Season VIII “Polarity”: IU Edition, welcomes Lee Feinstein, founding dean at the Hamilton Lugar School of International and Global Studies, President of McLarty Associates, and researcher for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. In this episode, Feinstein shares insights on the importance of establishing a global and international studies school at IU Bloomington, reflecting on his experiences working in Poland, and contributing to Holocaust research and remembrance efforts for the Holocaust museum. He also provides informative insights on the upcoming 2024 election and its involvement concerning international relations, and emphasizes the importance of education in fostering awareness and understanding of foreign relations tied to the United States.

A diverse panel of experts will shed light on how individuals and communities have stood against oppression and persecution during World War II, the civil rights movement, and in struggles for social justice today. Wolf Gruner is the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies, a professor of History, and Founding Director of the Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research at USC. He is an appointed member of the Academic Committee at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum since 2017. He is the author of eleven books, among them the prize-winning The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia. Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses. His new book, Resisters. How Ordinary Jews fought Hitler's Persecution, is a National Jewish Book Award finalist. Susan H. Kamei, the managing director of the Spatial Sciences Institute, a professor of History, and author of When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during World War II, is recognized as a leading scholar and educator on our country's unjustified wartime imprisonment of more than 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, solely on the basis of their race. A descendant of incarcerees, she draws upon personal and community stories to convey the continuing relevance of this tragic episode in our history to contemporary issues of racial identity, immigration, and citizenship, and today's threat to civil liberties. Hajar Yazdiha is an assistant professor of Sociology at USC, faculty affiliate of the USC Equity Research Institute, and author of the book, The Struggle for the People's King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement. A public scholar whose writing and research has been featured in the New York Times, TIME Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Hill, and The Grio, Hajar researches the politics of inclusion and exclusion, examining the forces that bring us together and keep us apart as we work to forge collective futures.  Moderator: Allissa V. Richardson is an associate professor of journalism at USC's Annenberg School and the founding director of the USC Charlotta Bass Journalism & Justice Lab. The award-winning journalism instructor, scholar, and author studies how marginalized communities use mobile and social media to produce innovative forms of journalism, especially in times of crisis. Richardson's best-selling book, Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #Journalism, explores the lives of 15 mobile journalist-activists who documented the Black Lives Matter movement using only smartphones and Twitter.

Jody produced the central oral history piece at the New Jersey Vietnam Era Educational Center in Holmdel, NJ, and was the founding Director of Film & Video at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In addition to her work in film, Jody has extensive experience in both radio and television.In this insightful interview, we discuss Jody Small's new documentary, The Storm & The Boats: A Pandemic Stories Project. The one-hour film captures the experiences of New Jersey residents during the COVID-19 pandemic, preserving their stories for future generations. With over 25 hours of footage, this material will be archived at the Rutgers Oral History Archive.Jody interviewed a diverse group of NJ residents in the spring of 2021, right from her basement, to document their experiences.The film includes stories from a police officer, a NJ mayor who underwent a "drive-by double mastectomy," a bone marrow recipient facing further isolation, doctors and nurses grappling with mental health challenges, and a food shortage crisis in Bergen County.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/chatting-with-betsy--4211847/support.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1249, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Places Of Sport And Amusement 1: With 10 million gallons of water, the USA's largest one of these opened in Atlanta in 2005. an aquarium. 2: 4-letter place for "roller" fun. a rink. 3: Footwear is key at this indoor location where a turkey is cause for congratulations. a bowling alley. 4: California's official state theater is the Pasadena one; on TV, Pee-Wee Herman had a more informal one. a playhouse. 5: This word is from French and Latin words meaning "bicycle" and "course". velodrome. Round 2. Category: Nea. With Nea in quotation marks 1: This layer of the eye has no blood vessels. the cornea. 2: Mary Ann Esposito's book on 3 yeast doughs is "What You" this. Knead. 3: This pet critter is part of the cavy family. guinea pig. 4: This state capital is on the Gastineau Channel. Juneau (Alaska). 5: This Trojan hero is Aphrodite's son. Aeneas. Round 3. Category: Get Your Facts Straight 1: Carlsberg is a Danish brewery; this Swiss-style cheese from Norway has a similar name. Jarlsberg. 2: The minneola is the best-known variety of the tangelo; Minnehaha is his best gal in a Longfellow poem. Hiawatha. 3: Borax is a cleaning agent; this movie title guy journeys to "the U.S. and A." with his producer Azamat Bagatov. Borat. 4: Van Heflin was in "Shane" and "3:10 to Yuma"; this group gave us songs like "Hot For Teacher". Van Halen. 5: Ramen is a noodle; the Ramayana is an epic poem of India composed in this ancient language. Sanskrit. Round 4. Category: The Rockefellers 1: One of the world's wealthiest men, John D. Rockefeller made his fortune in this business. oil. 2: In the 1970s this member of the Rockefeller family served briefly as vice president. Nelson. 3: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller was a founder of this NYC museum in 1929 and her son David was a longtime donor and trustee. the MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art). 4: From 1985 to 2015 Jay Rockefeller, also known as John D. Rockefeller IV, was a senator from this state. West Virginia. 5: Living to the age of 97, John D. was born when this man of Dutch descent was president, and died during FDR's second term. Van Buren. Round 5. Category: Museums By City 1: Byzantine Museum,Acropolis Museum. Athens. 2: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, D.C.. 3: Anne Frank House,Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. 4: The Henry Ford Museum(don't say Detroit). Dearborn. 5: Uffizi Gallery,Bardini Museum. Florence. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

On this episode we discuss how Baku oil shaped Bolshevism, Sovietization, and the structuring of the Soviet state between 1920-1929 in the South Caucasus. Our guest is Sara Brinegar, historian and author of the book Power and the Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus: Periphery Unbound 1920-1929. Book description and author bio below: The book shows how the politics of oil intersected with the establishment of Soviet power in the Caucasus; it reveals how the Soviets cooperated and negotiated with the local elite, rather than merely subsuming them. More broadly, Power and the Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus demonstrates not only how the Bolsheviks understood and exploited oil, but how the needs of the industry shaped Bolshevik policy.Brinegar reflects on the huge geopolitical importance of oil at the end of World War I and the Russian Civil War. She discusses how the reserves sitting idle in the oil fields of Baku, the capital of the newly independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and the center of the fallen empire's oil reserves were no exception to this. With the Soviet leadership in Moscow intent on capturing the fields in the first few months of 1920, this book examines the Soviet project to rebuild Baku's oil industry in the aftermath of these wars and the political significance of oil in the formation of the Soviet Union. Sara Brinegar is historian of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She held a two¬-year faculty fellowship at Yale University's European Studies Council and was previously a Digital Pedagogy Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is an independent scholar with a full-time non-academic job and is based in the Washington, D.C. area. 

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels testified in former President Donald Trump's so-called hush money trial Tuesday, and faced cross-examination by defense attorneys. She detailed allegations of an intimate encounter with Trump. Israeli forces began ground operations in Rafah and took control of the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing, while cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas are still ongoing in Egypt. President Joe Biden delivered the keynote speech at the Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance ceremony. He addressed the horrors of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, and issued a call to fight the “ferocious surge” of anti-Semitism. TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance sued the United States, seeking to block a potential ban. A new law would force the social media app to cut ties with with its Chinese owner by next January or be banned on U.S. app stores. ⭕️Watch in-depth videos based on Truth & Tradition at Epoch TV

President Biden at Holocaust Museum's Days of Remembrance warns of “ferocious surge of antisemitism” in U.S. in a speech at the Holocaust Memorial Museum's Day of Remembrance ceremony, Education Secretary Cardona questioned at House hearing about college campus antisemitism investigations, Rep. Greene (R-GA) meets again with Speaker Johnson (R-LA) on her Motion to Vacate to remove him, House fails to override president's veto of bill to reverse NLRB joint employer rule. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Boyd discusses parts of the President's speech he gave earlier this morning at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Biden has shied away from using interviews and media appearances to push his agenda forward, and instead the President has used his pulpit to deliver "tent pole" style speeches, which aims to reset the conversation and re-frame it. Is this communication strategy resonating with the American people?

At the Holocaust Memorial Museum today, President Joe Biden is set to deliver a speech condemning antisemitism and aligning the tragic events of the Holocaust with the recent Hamas attacks on Israel this past October 7, the deadliest since World War II.  As part of the museum's annual day to remember the Holocaust, Biden will spotlight these harrowing parallels and call on Americans to stand against antisemitism in all its forms. The president's address comes amid rising protests nationwide on over 120 college campuses asking universities to divest their investments in Israel. Over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, aiming to avenge the lives of the 1,500 killed during the initial Hamas attack.  Biden is expected to urge unity in combating hate and outline his administration's steps, such as the National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens on I-35 doesn't necessarily stay on I-35... A day trip to San Antonio to visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum began with a fictitious doctor's appointment and concluded with a spirited debate between Brittany and a four-year-old. This encapsulates our experience, alongside a few other antics encountered along the journey. Welcome to The Experienship Podcast! - Brittany and Danlee

Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project talks with David Scheffer, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Amb. Scheffer was the first U.S. Ambassador at Large for Crimes Issues, serving during the second term of the Clinton Administration.Bio: Amb. David J. Scheffer is senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, with a focus on international law and international criminal justice. Scheffer was the Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law (2006-2020) and is Director Emeritus of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. He is Professor of Practice at Arizona State University (Washington offices). He was Vice-President of the American Society of International Law (2020-2022) and held the International Francqui Professorship at KU Leuven in Belgium in 2022. From 2012 to 2018 he was the UN Secretary-General's Special Expert on UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials, and he was the Tom A. Bernstein Genocide Prevention Fellow working with the Ferencz International Justice Initiative at the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (2019-2021). Amb. Scheffer book All the Missing SoulsCouncil on Foreign RelationsArizona State University School of Politics and Global Studies

Leo S. Ullman was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in July 1939. After surviving WWIIas a “hidden child,” as chronicled in his book, “796 Days”, and in a documentary film, "ThereWere Good People...Doing Extraordinary Deeds: Leo Ullman's Story” Harvard College (1961) received law and business degrees from Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve.Mr. Ullman practiced law and founded a real estate investment trust, which he took to the New York Stock Exchange and was named Ernst & Young's “Entrepreneur of the Year.” Mr. Ullman served as a Director of the Anne Frank Center USA, established the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam, and was a member of the Development Committee of the U.S.Holocaust Memorial Museum. At Andover, Leo established the “Ullman Lectures” as part of tolerance education.Leo and his wife, Kay, have co-sponsored the exhibit “State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda” at the U.S.National Holocaust Memorial Museum. They have also funded the creation of a “Righteous Remembrance Room” atStockton University's Holocaust Resource Center to honor the persons who saved his life and the lives of others in hisfamily.Mr. Ullman was the goalie in 1960 and 1961 for Harvard's championshiplacrosse team has completed 145 triathlons, including 3 Ironman competitions, and bicycled across the U.S. in 25days, donated a collection of some 15,000 Nolan Ryan baseball cardsto Stockton University, authored“The Largest and Most Unique Collection of all Things Nolan Ryan” and “Leo, A Hidden Child in WWII,” which includes 19 pages of illustrations by Michelle Shain.Leo continues to be active in lectures and programs on the Holocaust in many schools, universities, churches,synagogues and civic organizations.

No one ever wants to find themselves in an active shooter situation. But if you are, it's important to know how to respond. Today's guest is Katherine Schweit. Katherine is an attorney, consultant, and retired FBI special agent who created and led the FBI's Active Shooter Program after the horrible tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School. She joined a White House team working on violence prevention matters, led by then Vice President Biden. She is the author of Stop the Killing: How to End the Mass Shooting Crisis, How to Talk About Guns With Anybody, and the FBI's research on mass shootings, a study of 160 active shooter incidents in the United States between 2000 and 2013. She was part of the crisis team responding to shooting incidents including at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Pentagon, and the Navy Yard in Washington, DC. Show Notes: [1:14] - Katherine shares her background, her experience in the FBI, and her work in the Active Shooter Program. [3:05] - In her work, she spent time with parents and families of those killed in mass shootings. [4:23] - What constitutes a mass shooting or an active shooter situation? There is no real definition. [6:10] - Most mass killings are domestic, particularly murder/suicides, but those will not show in data. Katherine explains what the FBI looks at. [8:44] - Journalists and media impact what stories are news-worthy. [10:21] - Katherine released her book How to Talk About Guns With Anyone to keep the conversation going. [13:19] - In 2020, the CDC determined that gun deaths in youth 19 and younger exceeded the deaths by traffic accidents in the same age group. [15:56] - Safety isn't about when it happens. It's about if it happens. [16:58] - The shooting at Columbine changed the way the American public viewed and feared shootings, although public shootings were not new events. [18:32] - Katherine explains the response and training of law enforcement officers during the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary. [21:06] - The numbers of incidents have increased but we have not seen the number of casualties increase. [25:00] - Television shows and movies create misunderstandings on what law enforcement officers and FBI agents can accomplish. [26:37] - See something, say something. [28:00] - In most cases, someone close to a shooter had information and didn't say anything. [29:48] - What do you do when something happens? People should have Run, Hide, Fight training. [32:51] - In 13% of shootings, a civilian was successful in getting in to help incapacitate the shooter. [37:40] - A simple thing to be prepared with is knowledge of the exits in your location. [39:19] - It is important when hiding to hide where there is actual cover. [40:27] - Don't stay where there is no protection. [42:51] - Shooters come in with a plan and it is always intentional. [44:11] - Sometimes an unexpected distraction makes a difference because it throws off a shooter's plan. [47:37] - While school shootings are terrible incidents, children are actually more in danger in their homes and neighborhoods. [49:45] - Although they are major news stories when they happen, elementary school shootings are rare. [51:29] - Listen to Katherine's podcast, Stop the Killing, for more information. Thanks for joining us on Easy Prey. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes and leave a nice review.  Links and Resources: Podcast Web Page Facebook Page whatismyipaddress.com Easy Prey on Instagram Easy Prey on Twitter Easy Prey on LinkedIn Easy Prey on YouTube Easy Prey on Pinterest How to Talk About Guns With Anybody by Katherine Schweit Stop the Killing: How to End the Mass Shooting Crisis by Katherine Schweit Katherine Schweit's Website Stop the Killing Podcast

As chef-partner in Pomegranate Hospitality, Alon Shaya has shared the rich culinary landscape of Israel through his acclaimed restaurants—Saba in New Orleans, Safta in Denver and the newest, Silan in the Bahamas. But, he says, it has been one of the greatest honors of his life to help preserve one family's legacy through the Rescued Recipes series of dinners he's hosting in cities across the country. Shaya began this project after discovering a recipe book from the Fenves family during a visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The collection had been saved by the family's cook after the parents and children had been sent to concentration camps during World War II. After the war, the cook was able to get the cookbook into the hands of the son and daughter and it eventually ended up at the museum. The first Rescued Recipes dinner was held last year in Washington, D.C., and now Shaya is expanding them across the country to Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver and New York City. The dinners will raise funds to preserve and digitize the Museum's Holocaust documents. Listen as Shaya shares the memorable story of the Fenves family legacy, how his cooking is bringing their culinary memories to life, and how his restaurants continue to give back through Hummus for a Cause.

To learn more, please visit the website for the #lastseen project. SHOW NOTES:0:00 Katharina Menschick on the response to #lastseen project3:00 Menschick – research associate in Arolsen Archives' historical research department dealing with digital memory projects, digital archival projects and archival theory3:20 Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller – historian with Arolsen Archives and House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin3:45 mission of the #lastseen initiative5:00 missing deportation photographs 6:00 deportation photographs found by American GI and returned during Nuremberg trials7:00 request for deportation photographs7:20 types of deportation photographs 8:30 Eisenach deportation – Magda Katz 9:00 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum research – donor identified uncle in photograph 11:15 deportation from Dr. Kreutzmüller's hometown12:30 questions about why photographers took the deportation photos13:00 spectatorship / audience of the photographs14:20 importance of photographs as a historical source14:45 virtual interactive educational resource16:45 German high school pupils' assistance in developing educational resource18:10 difficulty of discussing bystanders 19:30 photographs invite reflection 22:00 historical transparency by telling what they don't know 25:00 giving context to photographs 28:30 gaze of those photographed29:15 propaganda film in Warsaw Ghetto30:20 legacy of their work 32:15 definition of justice – striving for fairness33:00 real restoration cannot be achieved34:00 doing justice to the photographs and to those in the photographs34:45 restitution through archives Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.comTo hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com. Thanks so much for listening!© Stephanie Drawdy [2023]

Join America's Roundtable (https://americasrt.com/) radio co-hosts Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy with Michael J. Abramowitz, president of Freedom House, a non-partisan voice dedicated to supporting democracy. Mr. Abramowitz oversees a unique combination of analysis, advocacy, and direct support to frontline defenders of freedom, especially those working in closed authoritarian societies. He previously directed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, prior to which he led the museum's genocide prevention efforts. He spent the first 24 years of his career at The Washington Post, where he was national editor and then White House correspondent. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and he was formally a Marshall Memorial fellow at the German Marshall Fund and media fellow at the Hoover Institution. A Conversation with Michael J. Abramowitz | Key Topics on America's Roundtable: — The Freedom House's Freedom in the World report, a widely read and cited report of its kind, tracking global trends in political rights and civil liberties for 50 years. — Media Freedom | A New Special Report — Reviving News Media in an Embattled Europe. — Significance of the rule of law in democratic states as it relates to defending civil liberties and political rights. — The state of freedom in India. — China's growing global influence under the leadership of President Xi Jinping. Further reading: By Michael J. Abramowitz and Yana Gorokhovskaia Dallas Morning News | Journalists face threats around the world (https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2023/04/15/the-world-is-less-democratic-when-journalists-are-less-safe/) About Freedom House | History (https://freedomhouse.org/about-us/our-history) Freedom House is the oldest American organization devoted to the support and defense of democracy around the world. It was formally established in New York in 1941 to promote American involvement in World War II and the fight against fascism. From the beginning, Freedom House was notable for its bipartisan support. Freedom House's founders were prominent and influential leaders from the fields of business and labor, journalism, academia, and government. A central figure among its early leaders was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Wendell Willkie, the Republican presidential nominee who ran against President Roosevelt in 1940, was also an ardent supporter and served as honorary co-chair along with Mrs. Roosevelt. Initially, the mission of Freedom House was to counter isolationism, a powerful force promoted by the America First Committee. At the time, ninety percent of American citizens were opposed to involvement in the European war, even as Nazi tanks rolled across the continent and concentration camps began to fill with people. The leaders of Freedom House argued that Hitler posed a grave threat to American security and values. Learn more: https://freedomhouse.org/about-us/our-history americasrt.com (https://americasrt.com/) https://ileaderssummit.org/ | https://jerusalemleaderssummit.com/ America's Roundtable on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/americas-roundtable/id1518878472 Twitter: @abramowitz @ileaderssummit @AmericasRT @NatashaSrdoc @JoelAnandUSA @supertalk America's Roundtable is co-hosted by Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy, co-founders of International Leaders Summit and the Jerusalem Leaders Summit. America's Roundtable (https://americasrt.com/) radio program - a strategic initiative of International Leaders Summit, focuses on America's economy, healthcare reform, rule of law, security and trade, and its strategic partnership with rule of law nations around the world. The radio program features high-ranking US administration officials, cabinet members, members of Congress, state government officials, distinguished diplomats, business and media leaders and influential thinkers from around the world. Tune into America's Roundtable Radio program from Washington, DC via live streaming on Saturday mornings via 65 radio stations at 7:30 A.M. (ET) on Lanser Broadcasting Corporation covering the Michigan and the Midwest market, and at 7:30 A.M. (CT) on SuperTalk Mississippi — SuperTalk.FM reaching listeners in every county within the State of Mississippi, and neighboring states in the South including Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee. Listen to America's Roundtable on digital platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, Google and other key online platforms. Listen live, Saturdays at 7:30 A.M. (CT) on SuperTalk | https://www.supertalk.fm

Join us this week as we delve into the heart of Iran's turmoil with esteemed guest Elliott Abrams, former foreign policy advisor to Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. Gain exclusive insights and expert analysis on the current state of affairs in Iran, exploring the underlying factors, potential ramifications, and possible solutions. Don't miss this captivating episode as we unravel the complexities of one of the world's most critical geopolitical hotspots.We're also joined by Andrew Hale, the Jay Van Andel Senior Trade Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation, who brings his extensive experience in international trade and defense intelligence. Together, we examine the alarming issue of China defaulting on $850 billion of debt, shedding light on the potential global consequences and exploring the economic and geopolitical landscape. Don't miss this captivating episode as we unravel the complexities of Iran's chaos and China's financial challenges._Elliott Abrams is senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, DC. He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor in the administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House, and as Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela in the administration of Donald Trump.Abrams was educated at Harvard College, the London School of Economics, and Harvard Law School. After serving on the staffs of Senators Henry M. Jackson and Daniel P. Moynihan, he was an assistant secretary of state in the Reagan administration and received the secretary of state's Distinguished Service Award from Secretary George P. Shultz. In 2012, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy gave him its Scholar-Statesman Award.Abrams was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, from 1996 until joining the White House staff. He was a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom from 1999 to 2001 and chairman of the commission in the latter year, and served a second term as a member of the Commission in 2012-2014. From 2009 to 2016, Abrams was a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, which directs the activities of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is a member of the board of the National Endowment for Democracy, and teaches U.S. foreign policy at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.Abrams joined the Bush administration in June 2001 as special assistant to the president and senior director of the National Security Council for democracy, human rights, and international organizations. From December 2002 to February 2005, he served as special assistant to the president and senior director of the National Security Council for Near East and North African affairs. He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor for global democracy strategy from February 2005 to January 2009, and in that capacity supervised both the Near East and North African affairs and the democracy, human rights, and international organizations directorates of the National Security Council.Abrams rejoined the State Department in January 2019 as Special Representative for Venezuela, and in August 2020 took on the additional position of Special Representative for Iran. He left the Department in January 2021.Abrams is the author of five books: Undue Process, Security and Sacrifice, Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America, Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and most recently Realism and Democracy: American Foreign Policy After the Arab Spring. He is the editor of three more, Close Calls: Intervention, Terrorism, Missile Defense and "Just War" Today; Honor Among Nations: Intangible Interests and Foreign Policy; and The Influence of Faith: Religious Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy.Andrew is the Jay Van Andel Senior Policy Analyst in Trade Policy in Heritage's Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies.Andrew Hale is currently the Jay Van Andel Senior Trade Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation. A dual citizen of the U.S. and the United Kingdom, he has previously worked for the UK Department for International Trade, in Defense Intelligence, and for Parliament. In the U.S. he has worked for the State Department and for a Member of Congress._Connect with us:www.breakingbattlegrounds.voteTwitter: www.twitter.com/Breaking_BattleFacebook: www.facebook.com/breakingbattlegroundsInstagram: www.instagram.com/breakingbattlegroundsLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/breakingbattlegrounds This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit breakingbattlegrounds.substack.com

Food has proved itself to bind us to each other and to memory. The archives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's archives hold many cooking memories and stories about food. One in particular, the book of Steven Fenves' family, holds treasured recipes as well as its own story of redemption. This podcast tells the story of the archives and this cookbook and the joy that the recipes can still bring. It's on Tip of the Tongue.

In this episode of his "Thinking Out Loud" series, Double D discusses the recent wave of anti-LGBT policy sweeping the United States.Opening up the video, Double D address recent policy and cultural attacks on LGBT people throughout the country. He highlights mass shootings, a coordinated policy campaign, as well as an increase in book banning and acts of intimidation. He also address the long history of connection between fascist movements and anti-LGBT rhetoric.Jumping in, Double D reads excerpts from a "The Holocaust Memorial Museum" article, which details the German fascist campaign against LGBT people. He outlines what was known as the "German Criminal Code Paragraph S175" which was notorious as the legal justification for the persecution of LGBT people in Weimar Germany.He notes that the fascists only slightly changed the original text of S175, and in conjunction with a wave of provincial and municipal policy, were able to broaden their scope of persecution and exclusion against LGBT people. He compares this history to the policy campaign that has been rolling across the United States. He points out that the changing or removal of a few words of legalese can spell disaster for marginalized people. He draws a parallel to the 13th Amendment and the abolition of slavery. He notes that the addendum, "except as punishment for a crime", laid the seed which maintained slavery through the guise of vagrancy laws and later mass incarceration.Moving on, Double D examines the rhetorical relationship between fascists and anti-LGBT speech. He insists that fascists have consistently used anti-LGBT rhetoric to create "the other", in order to gain consent for their rise to power. He notes that this process occurs via a coalition of Christian theocratic organizations, right wing political movements, and out and out hate groups; which come together to stir up anti-LGBT hysteria and to bank roll the political machinations of fascists.Double D insists that the neutered liberal class is also complicit in the rise of fascists. He points out that political deadlock, coupled with the purposeful failure of the liberal class to act on economic and social issues creates a fertile breeding ground for fascists. He notes that fascists are all too eager to weaponize identity rhetoric from the liberal class by tying loose lip service towards marginalized people into a vast web of conspiracies as well as a stoking of deep seeded prejudices.Moving on, Double D examines the history of fascism and its connection to toxic masculinity. He quotes fascist leaders who said that LGBT people were a "threat of corruption" to the nation's young men. He ties this together with historically fascist movements towards "forced-birthing." He notes that all this language is clearly present today in the United States, its being spouted from every right wing personality and analyst in the country. He claims that such rhetoric is alive an well in the dialogue against abortion, in buzz-words like "pedophile and groomer", and in Christian cults like "Quiverfull", as well as in pseudo-scientific ideas like "The Great Replacement Theory." He also highlights the "alpha-sigma male dialogue", and internet personalities like Andrew Tate, who use fascist talking points to prey on alienated young men. He insists that all of these elements tie together into an increasingly fascist dialogue which has permanently changed political discourse in the country.Next, Double D examines the policy campaign against LGBT people. He provides a map from the ACLU, which provides links to every single one of the hundreds of anti-LGBT policy being considered in the statehouses. He reads the text of several, highlighting a few that out right deny civil rights, civil liberties, and which deny healthcare, mental health services, or which provide a "freedom of religion" exemption to inclusion or anti-discrimination policies.R

[This morning, I spoke at the ADL's Together Against Hatred Rally on Capitol Hill, alongside some amazing folks who are committed to fighting antisemitism and all other forms of hatred, specifically calling on Congress to fully fund the Nonprofit Security Grant Program to protect synagogues, schools, and other public spaces. Video is available here, and the full text of my remarks are below.]It seems one of the worst things you can do these days is admit when you don't know something. We'll forgive a lot of things in this country, but for some reason, admitting when we don't know something is often taboo. Now, that's quite a problem for me because I have found that the older I get, the more I realize just how much I don't know.I did not grow up learning much about Jewish culture or history. I am not an expert on antisemitism. There are so many things I have not yet learned about the history of hatred against the Jewish Community.But the thing is… I have never been asked by any Jewish person to become an expert on antisemitism. I have never been asked by any Jewish person to become an expert on Jewish history and culture.All I have ever been asked by friends and colleagues and loved ones in the Jewish community is to stand beside them against antisemitism.I know antisemitism exists because the Jewish community tells me antisemitism exists. And that's all I need to know.In my mid-20s, I worked at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and at the end of the permanent exhibition–the main exhibition–there is a quote by Martin Niemoller. You've probably heard of it. He talks about how he didn't speak up when other groups were persecuted by the Nazis because he wasn't part of those groups. But finally, when the Nazis came for him, there was no left to speak up.It's a powerful quote. It's an important lesson. But respectfully, I must admit that I take issue with his premise. I take issue with the implication that the safety and dignity of another community only becomes important when my community's safety and dignity are threatened.I am not here today because Jewish leaders speak up for LGBTQ rights, although they do.I am not here today because my friend Jonathan Greenblatt speaks up against transphobia, although he does. I am not here today because the ADL advocates for the safety and dignity of all communities, although they do.I am not here today because I have Jewish friends and loved ones and colleagues and neighbors, although I can tell you that my life wouldn't be worth living without them.That's not why I'm here, and I don't need Jewish people in my life to understand that there is a crisis of antisemitism in the United States right now.I don't need to have Jewish friends to acknowledge that there were nearly 4,000 incidents of antisemitism in the United States last year.I don't need to have Jewish loved ones to mourn those who were murdered at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 and to recognize how unchecked antisemitism in our country led to their murders and to understand why it is imperative that Congress authorize full funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program.I don't need to have Jewish colleagues to speak up when I hear or see something that is antisemitic or to understand the implication of violence against the Jewish community when Jewish graves are vandalized.I don't need to have Jewish children to be horrified by what Jewish children and young people are experiencing right now on campuses across the country and to understand that I have an obligation as a grown adult to protect any child from violence and discrimination.Yesterday, during a session at ADL's National Leadership Summit, I listened to a young woman, Alison Stone, a student leader, talk about her experience of a professor on her campus saying something antisemitic. And her primary concern in that moment was trying to figure out how she should approach her professor about this without being accusatory or condemnatory.No child in this country, no young person in this country, no student in this country should ever feel that their right to safety and dignity should revolve around the discomfort of a grown adult. Let alone an authority figure.One of my best friends has a daughter in high school. She's smart, empathetic, and has a good head on her shoulders. She has become my niece. I have become her aunt. She is also a young Jewish woman in the United States in 2023.I worry about her safety. But moreover, I wonder if I am doing enough to be an example to her: that we should never need any other reason to speak up against hatred beyond the existence of that hatred.I want my niece to understand that she doesn't need to know everything about a community in order to stand beside them. I want her to know that saying “I don't know, but I want to listen and learn” is a sign of strength and character.I want her to know that all of us, every single one of us, are imperfect and none of us know everything and the greatest collective strength we have as humanity is the opportunity to learn from each other.I want her to know that there is so much I don't know, but this I do know:There is no excuse for antisemitism. Period. Those of us who are not Jewish need to speak out against it wherever it appears. That is our moral obligation.If you've ever wondered if you would have been the kind of person to speak out against anti-Jewish hatred in the '30s and '40s, you don't need to wonder today. Vicious antisemitism is out in the open. Here's your moment to join me in listening and learning. Here's your moment to say something about it.When are you speaking up against it? Get full access to Charlotte's Web Thoughts at charlotteclymer.substack.com/subscribe

As we prepare for Holocaust Remembrance Day, Maine Municipal Association, Maine Chiefs of Police Association, and several other stakeholders had the opportunity to receive an important history lesson in context from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.. In this episode, Rebecca Graham sits down with Noel March who facilitated  bringing a special law enforcement program out of D.C. to Maine through the Maine Community Policing Institute and the Maine Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was able to take part of The Museum's Law, Justice, and the Holocaust Program on the road to Maine, one of only two places outside Washington D.C. who have benefitted from the learning opportunity. The signature program, Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust (LEAS), is presented in partnership with the Anti-Defamation League. Established in 1999 at the request of DC Metropolitan Police Department, the program is suitable for recruit, in-service, and command professionals in law enforcement at the federal, state, and local levels. To date, this innovative program has reached more than 150,000 officers from the US and 80 countries worldwide.The internationally recognized date for Holocaust Remembrance Day corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. It marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In 2023, that day is Tuesday, April 18. 

Dr. Grant T. Harward is a native of southern California. He completed his BA in history at Brigham Young University in 2009, his MSc in the Second World War in Europe at the University of Edinburgh in 2010, and his PhD in history at Texas A&M University in 2018. He is a former Auschwitz Jewish Center fellow, a former Fulbright scholar to Romania, and a former Mandel Center fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He was a historian for the U.S. Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage at Fort Sam Houston (“Home of the Combat Medic”) in San Antonio from 2018 to 2021. He now works as a historian for the U.S. Army Center of Military History. Dr. Harward has written numerous articles about the history of U.S. Army medicine and the Romanian Army during World War II. Cornell University Press recently published his book, Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust (2021). The views and information shared by Dr. Harward are his alone and do not represent the official position of the U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Defense, or U.S. Government.

Years before Adolph Hitler obtained power, and in the decades before the Third Reich brought “the manufacture of mass death to its pitiless consummation” in the words of the late military historian John Keegan, the seeds were planted of America's callous and ineffective response to the Nazi persecution of Europe's Jews. As director Ken Burns shows in his searing new documentary “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” hostility to immigration coexisted with America's reputation as a land of opportunity during an era that saw millions of Europeans make their way to Ellis Island. But a long-simmering nativist backlash combined with the junk science of eugenics to produce federal legislation in 1924 severely restricting emigration to the United States based on nation of origin. These quotas, which enjoyed widespread public and political support, would prevent hundreds of thousands of Jews from escaping Europe when they had a chance. In this episode, author and historian Rebecca Erbelding, an expert on the U.S. response to the Nazi genocide at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and an independent scholarly advisor to the Burns documentary, discusses the ways in which antisemitism, nativism, and isolationism contributed to the failure to save more Jewish lives. Americans expressed revulsion at Nazi violence, but the outrage did not lead to a more welcoming attitude toward refugees.

Town Square with Ernie Manouse airs at 3 p.m. CT. Tune in on 88.7FM, listen online or subscribe to the podcast. Join the discussion at 888-486-9677, questions@townsquaretalk.org or @townsquaretalk. Many of us think we know and understand what happened during the Holocaust, but do we really understand how the United States responded? This is the subject of a new PBS documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns.  The U.S. and the Holocaust details the events that led to the Holocaust and how America closed its borders to thousands of Jews who sought refuge in the United States during this time. The film also explores whether America, a “nation of immigrants”, really lives up to the ideals it claims. The three-part, six-hour series, The U.S. and the Holocaust premieres Sunday, September 18, 2022, on Houston Public Media TV-8 at 7pm CT.  Episode two airs Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at 7pm CT and episode three airs Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 7pm CT.  It also airs on PBS.org and PBS Passport. Dr. Rebecca Erbelding, historian from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and featured in the film, offers her insight on the Holocaust and how important it is to keep history alive. Sharing her first-hand account of her experience is Ruth Steinfeld, a Holocaust survivor.  She shares the hardships and prejudice she faced as a child, and how she uses her story to educate people on why it's so important to stop something like the Holocaust from happening again. Laurie Garcia, from the Houston Holocaust Museum, discusses the museums role in educating the public about the Holocaust. Guests: Ken Burns Documentary Filmmaker Dr. Rebecca Erbelding Historian, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Author, “Rescue Board” Ruth Steinfeld Holocaust Survivor Laurie Garcia Senior Associate Director of Education Houston Holocaust Museum Town Square with Ernie Manouse is a gathering space for the community to come together and discuss the day's most important and pressing issues. We also offer a free podcast here, on iTunes, and other apps.

When the writer Glenn Kurtz stumbled upon an old home movie buried in his parents' closet in Florida, he inadvertently discovered a whole world that, tragically, had been nearly erased from history. Returning as a tourist in 1938 to the small village of Nasielsk outside Warsaw where he grew up, his grandfather David Kurtz brought with him a brand new 16mm Kodak movie camera. The three minutes of footage he shot there, which later turned up in the closet, are now among the only surviving moving images of any of the Polish villages destroyed in the Holocaust. Years later, the writer and critic Bianca Stigter (“Three Minutes – Thirteen Minutes – Thirty Minutes”) would see those three minutes posted on the website of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and embark on her own investigative journey. The result is the extraordinary documentary Three Minutes: A Lengthening. Joining Ken to discuss her film, which includes Kurtz' original footage, Bianca describes her creative “lengthening” process, which involved adding fascinating historical context and an almost microscopic level of detail. With very few markers, how were Glenn and Bianca able to identify people and places in the footage? Why was it so important to Bianca that viewers experience the footage actively rather than passively — and how did her filmmaking encourage that dynamic? And how did a key sequence in the film turn into an unforgettable memorial to over 150 people whose faces were captured by David Katz' camera? While nothing can bring back the Jewish community of Nasielsk, the efforts of first David, then Glenn, and now, Bianca, have at least ensured that their stories and faces will live on in our own collective memories. “Three Minutes: A Lengthening”, which is being released by Super LTD, can be seen in select theaters nationwide starting on August 26.   Hidden Gem: Rose Hobart   Follow on Twitter: @BStigter1 @topdocspod   The Presenting Sponsor of "Top Docs" is Netflix. Listen to our recent conversations with these Emmy®-nominated directors whose documentaries are currently on Netflix: Andrew Rossi on "The Andy Warhol Diaries" Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah on "jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy" Felicity Morris on “The Tinder Swindler”

A traveling exhibit in Watertown asks what Americans knew about genocide in Europe, and what they did in response. We talk with a curator from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.We continue our Meet the Candidates series. Sheryl Johnson is with us.

The last Public Enemy No. 1 of the Depression era, Alvin “Creepy” Karpis reportedly compiled a record of fifty-four aliases, fifteen bank robberies, fourteen murders, three jailbreaks and two kidnappings. His criminal career came to an end when J. Edgar Hoover and his famed G-Men apprehended the man they wanted more than any other in New Orleans. From there, Karpis found himself confined on Alcatraz Island, where he spent nearly twenty-six years - more than any inmate in the prison's history. Historian Julie Thompson tells the true story of Karpis's life and career, a riveting tale taking readers from rural Kansas and Ohio to the bustling streets of the Big Easy and into the bleak innards of “the Rock.” A lifelong native of Northeast Ohio, historian Julie Thompson completed her history degree at Hiram College, where she graduated with distinction. She has volunteered at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and worked extensively with the Library of Congress Publishing Office on four of its substantial published works. Julie remains an active member of the Freedom Township Historical Society and has served on the board of trustees for the James A. Garfield Historical Society, where she engaged with Hiram College to develop the society's first internship program and served as a member of her area's Inter-Museum Council. Purchase HERE

USIP, the Simon Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the U.S. State Department hosted a discussion of the newly released U.S. Strategy to Anticipate, Prevent and Respond to Atrocities — as well as a look at the work the Atrocity Prevention Task Force has done over the past year as documented through its 2022 report to Congress as part of the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act. Speakers Welcoming Remarks Lise GrandePresident and CEO, U.S. Institute of Peace Naomi KikolerDirector, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Theodora Klayman Holocaust Survivor Merrick B. GarlandAttorney General of the United States of America Panel 1: Institutionalizing Atrocity Prevention Nidhi BouriActing Senior Director, Development, Global Health and Humanitarian Response, U.S. National Security Council Robert J. FaucherPrincipal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, U.S. Department of State Robert JenkinsAssistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization, USAID Michelle Strucke Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Partnerships, U.S. Department of Defense Ambassador Beth Van SchaackAmbassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice, U.S. Department of State Naomi Kikoler, moderatorDirector, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Panel 2: Operationalizing Atrocity Prevention Toby BradleyDeputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State Scott BusbyPrincipal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State Katrina FotovatSenior Official, Office of Global Women’s Issues, U.S. Department of State Allison Lombardo Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, U.S. Department of State Rosarie TucciDirector, Center for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance, U.S. Agency for International Development David W. Yang, moderator Vice President, Center of Thematic Excellence and Gandhi-King Global Academy, U.S. Institute of Peace

Michael J. Abramowitz is president of Freedom House. Before joining Freedom House in February 2017, he was director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Levine Institute for Holocaust Education. He led the museum's genocide prevention efforts and later oversaw its public education programs.He was previously National Editor and then White House correspondent for the Washington Post. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former fellow at the German Marshall Fund and the Hoover Institution. A graduate of Harvard College, he is also a board member of the National Security Archive.On this episode of Outside In Michael talks with Jon about why democracy is important, avoiding complacency, the need for tech transparency and sober dialogue.

Ethnic and religious minorities in Afghanistan have historically faced persecution and violence, which intensified at the hands of various armed groups over the last four decades. The Hazara, an ethnic and religious minority group, remain a primary target of attacks. On June 3, USIP and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide held a discussion with distinguished experts and activists to assess the atrocity risks faced by Hazaras and other vulnerable groups in Afghanistan and the key perpetrators driving the rising threat. Speakers Scott Worden, introductory remarksDirector, Afghanistan & Central Asia, U.S Institute of Peace Rina Amiri, keynote remarks U.S. Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls and Human RightsFarkhondeh AkbariPostdoctoral Fellow, Gender, Peace and Security Centre, Monash University Lauren BaillieSenior Program Officer, Atrocity Prevention, U.S Institute of Peace Shukria DellawarLegislative and Policy Manager for the Prevention of Violent Conflict, Friends Committee on National Legislation Naomi Kikoler, moderator Director, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum For more information about this event, please visit: https://www.usip.org/events/preventing-mass-atrocities-afghanistan

For about a year and a half, I worked at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum here in D.C. as a visitor services representative. On my first day, I was walking with my supervisor, who nudged me at one point and said: "See that guy? That's Henry. Make sure you talk to him."Henry Greenbaum was born in Poland in 1928. His father passed away early in the war, his mother and two of his sisters were murdered at Treblinka, and three more of his sisters died in a nearby labor camp. Only Henry, his sister Dina, and brothers Zachary and David survived.Henry survived that labor camp and then time at Auschwitz and then Flossenbürg and had he and his fellow Survivors not been liberated enroute on their death march, he would have likely been murdered at Dachau.I was awestruck by this man when I met him, and he had no time for that. He didn't want a pedestal. He wanted to genuinely connect with people. He was funny and warm and made the time to get to know staff members. Unsurprisingly, his emotional intelligence was off-the-charts.Yes, he had a personal mission--he would come every week to chat with visitors for hours at a time, telling his story, over and over again--but he also just wanted the company. He loved to laugh. I was dating another staff member at the time, and he'd jokingly urge us to marry.One time he came in with a bag of his old neckties and told the staff we were welcome to them. He handed out a few, including one to me. When I came out a few years later, I got rid of just about all my masculine clothing, including all my ties. Except for his. I still have it.Despite the enormity of his loss and suffering, Henry made the most of his time left. He wanted to enjoy life, he wanted to enjoy the company of others, and he wanted to tell his story to as many people as possible. Why? For the memories of those who didn't survive.This man could have done whatever the hell he wanted to do for the rest of his life, and no one would have thought lesser of him. And yet, he made it a point to come to the Museum every week and tell his story to more strangers who had never met a Survivor.Henry knew that his generation was slipping into history and that they would soon all pass on. I think he worried that not having living Survivors around to tell their stories might allow the world to become complacent and fall back into the horrors he witnessed as a young man.I was very naïve about all this. In 2014, I didn't appreciate his concern nearly as much as I should have. I was working in a world-renowned museum, visited by millions annually, in a national culture with no shortage of media about the Holocaust. How is complacency possible?Henry, for all his warmth and humor, did not see the world that way. While he strongly believed in the goodness of humanity, he was also acutely aware of how bad things could become again if we weren't consistently educated on those horrors and how they came about.The Holocaust did not happen overnight or even over a few years. It was the result of a steady drip of poison over MANY years that disenfranchised, then dehumanized, and then murdered millions of innocents. And it could not have been done without the buy-in of ordinary citizens.Teachers, doctors, lawyers, clergy, shopkeepers, friends, lovers, neighbors, the same kind of ordinary people that each of us see around ourselves every day. The same kind of people as us. We are never too far from that buy-in. It is always looming. Henry knew that.When I left the Museum in 2014, I was grateful for the experience but at the time, it still didn't hit me how close the threats were as described by Henry. Not just now, not just ten or twenty years ago, but the way that unaccountable hatred is always present and must be checked.For the vast majority of Americans, we all love to imagine that we would be righteous and stand against hatred. We watch movies or read books about the Holocaust and think we'd have done things differently. But would we? Really?Yesterday, it was revealed that the McMinn County Board of Education in Tennessee voted, 10-0, to ban "Maus", the iconic, Pultizer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, which is geared toward educating children. Banned, supposedly, for nudity and violence.Somehow, all the other books in McMinn County Schools that feature violence and nudity--Shakespeare and Hemingway, and, yes, the Bible--were somehow not banned. Those are deemed appropriate. Those are okay for children, we're told. Just not the one about the Holocaust.It's not just the Holocaust, of course. Books on white supremacy, the history of slavery in the United States, LGBTQ narratives, etc. -- these books are being banned by school districts, too, and at a far greater rate in the past year.Henry died in 2018, and I think of him often. I miss our conversations. But over the past year, my thoughts have been sharply focused on Henry's persistent concern, the one that kept him coming back, week after week, month after month, year after year.We are never too far away from the process that landslides into those horrors, and I wish that I had asked Henry more questions about that particularly. That's why he was there. I regret not begging for every bit of wisdom he was willing to offer on that.I have pictures with Henry from when I was in the closet that are just for me. I don't like to show them. And even the photo at the top doesn't quite do justice to his warmth. But this is where he sat for so many years, telling his story to anyone who would listen. Love you, Henry. 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During the last several years, FBI data has shown a massive spike of antisemitic attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions, and that Jews have been the most targeted group in America. We are no longer just victimized by Holocaust-denying neo-Nazis, but are now targeted by the far left, radical Islamists, and the “free Palestine” PLO movement who have spent years trying to delegitimize Israel in the media, on college campuses, academia, and now, the halls of Congress. Last month in Texas, Gina Peddy, executive director of curriculum and instruction for the Carroll Independent School District, said, “We are in the middle of the political mess … make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has opposing or other perspectives.” In 2019, Florida Principal William Latson said he had to be 'politically neutral' about the Holocaust because 'not all of our parents have the same beliefs. In2018, Trayon White Sr., a Washington, D.C., councilman, who is now running for Mayor, suggested on Facebook that rich Jews control the weather. He visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and left halfway through the 90-minute tour. Today's very special guest,  Rabbi Abraham Cooper, from the Simon Wiesenthal Center discussed these very troubling events, and if we in the Jewish community and other men and women of good will are going to wake up and realize that the threats against us are coming from more corners of society than we want to admit.

During the last several years, FBI data has shown a massive spike of antisemitic attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions, and that Jews have been the most targeted group in America. We are no longer just victimized by Holocaust-denying neo-Nazis, but are now targeted by the far left, radical Islamists, and the “free Palestine” PLO movement who have spent years trying to delegitimize Israel in the media, on college campuses, academia, and now, the halls of Congress. Last month in Texas, Gina Peddy, executive director of curriculum and instruction for the Carroll Independent School District, said, “We are in the middle of the political mess … make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has opposing or other perspectives.” In 2019, Florida Principal William Latson said he had to be 'politically neutral' about the Holocaust because 'not all of our parents have the same beliefs. In2018, Trayon White Sr., a Washington, D.C., councilman, who is now running for Mayor, suggested on Facebook that rich Jews control the weather. He visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and left halfway through the 90-minute tour. Today's very special guest,  Rabbi Abraham Cooper, from the Simon Wiesenthal Center discussed these very troubling events, and if we in the Jewish community and other men and women of good will are going to wake up and realize that the threats against us are coming from more corners of society than we want to admit.

In this episode, Dana Foster tells us about her grandfather who traveled as a teen from Germany to boarding school in England, immigrated independently to the United States and proudly served in the U.S. Army during WWII.  He was right to always describe his life and immigration story as a "big, happy adventure" and he later helped found the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum so that his survival story would live on for future generations. Dana's work as a Jewish educator also ensures that teens in the DC area can hear and relate to his story. Enjoy!  

In this episode Jonathan speaks with Michael J. Abramowitz, the president of Freedom House - an independent watchdog organisation dedicated to the expansion of freedom in the world. As their website states: 'Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people.'Before joining Freedom House in February 2017, Mike was director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Levine Institute for Holocaust Education. He led the museum's genocide prevention efforts, including the creation of the "Committee on Conscience", and later oversaw its public education programs. He was previously National Editor and then White House correspondent for the Washington Post.He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former fellow at the German Marshall Fund and the Hoover Institution. A graduate of Harvard College, Michael is also a board member of the National Security Archive.A few Freedom House Publications: Principles for Safeguarding US Democracy (Freedom House) - https://freedomhouse.org/article/prin...Freedom on the Net 2020 - "The Pandemic's Digital Shadow" - https://freedomhouse.org/report/freed...Freedom in the World - https://freedomhouse.org/report/freed...Relevant links:https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2020/pandemics-digital-shadowhttps://freedomhouse.org/https://www.ushmm.org/https://www.washingtonpost.com/