Literary Festival: Martin Goldsmith
In 1939 the MS St. Louis, loaded with Jewish refugees eager to escape Nazi Germany, sailed from Hamburg. Denied entry to Cuba and then the United States, the ship and its passengers were returned to Europe. Author and radio personality Martin Goldsmith details his six-week quest to retrace the journey his grandfather and his uncle made from the St. Louis, to French concentration camps, to murder at Auschwitz. With an introduction by Scott Miller, Director of Curatorial Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The Bernard Wexler Fund for Jewish History, established in 1996, supports an annual lecture that brings outstanding speakers, scholarly research and contemporary issues to the forefront of learning at the DCJCC.