Tigermedia - 2024 Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Evian Conference and the Refugee Crisis - 85 Years Later
2024 Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Evian Conference and the Refugee Crisis - 85 Years Later
Date: January 24th, 2024
Duration:
1h:1m:18s
In July 1938, international diplomats from 32 countries gathered in Evian-les-Bain, France to discuss the growing crisis of German and Austrian Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in the Reich. In commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Dr. Diane Afoumado, Chief of the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, discusses the significance of the Evian Conference's 85th anniversary.
This talk was a collaboration between Queensborough Community College’s Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and New York City College of Technology (City Tech)'s Ursula C. Schwerin Library in support of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s traveling exhibition, “Americans and the Holocaust” which examines how Americans reacted to Nazism, war, refugees, and genocide before and during the Second World War. The event was co-sponsored by the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University; the Holocaust & Human Rights Center in White Plains; the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University; the Sam & Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha; and the Holocaust Museum & Center For Tolerance and Education at Rockland Community College.