Share with us firsthand accounts of their experience during the holocaust. Each of our firstperson guests serves as a volunteer here at this museum. Our program will continue until august 8. The Museum Website is www. Usaid ww. Ush. Orgw provides information. She will share her first person account of her experience during the holocaust and as a survivor for about 45 minutes. If we have time at the end of the program, we will have an opportunity for you to ask her questions. If we dont get to your questions today, please join us in our online conversation, never stop asking why. The conversation aims to inspire individuals to ask the important questions holocaust history raises. You can ask your question and tag the museum on twitter, facebook and instagram using holocaustmuseuam and the hashtag askwhy. Please look at the first person website listed on your program. What you are about to hear is one individuals account of the holocaust. We have prepared a brief slide presentation to he
Museums first persons series. Its about an hour. Good morning, and welcome to the United States Holocaust Memorial museum. My name is bill benson. Im the host of the museums public first person. Thanks for joining us today. Were in the 20th year first person program. Our first person is miss Theodora Klayman who well meet shortly. This is made possible by the generosity of the Lewis Franklin Smith Foundation with additional funding from arlene and Daniel Fisher foundation. We are grateful for their sponsorsh sponsorship. The survivors of the holocaust who share with us their firsthand accounts of their experience during the holocaust. Each of our first person guests serve as a volunteer at this museum. Our program will continue until august 8th. The museums website at ww. Ushmm. Org provides information about each of our upcoming first person guest. Dora will show her first person account of her experience during the holocaust and as a survivor for about 45 minutes. If we have time tow
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Content. Next a Panel Discussion about robert edsels the Monuments Men about recovering and protecting european cultural artifacts that the nazis stole during world war ii. This is about an hour and 30 minutes. [applause] [inaudible conversations] there we go. Okay. Roberts second book is entitled the Monuments Men allied heroes, nazi thieves, and the greatest Treasure Hunt in history. This panel tonight will discuss those allied heroes the monuments named, the nazi thievebut not thethieves and tht Treasure Hunt in history. With the ambassadors staff on the panel on the legal also touch on some of the more contemporary efforts by the United States government to address the loss and return of what in the late 19 90s we began calling the holocaust era assets. In a way whats been done since the 1990s is following in the steps of the monuments named. Using the records they created as the guide past and using them to help turn history into the justice and expression that i stole from the am