In the next rm youll find the exhibit stitching history from the holocaust, developed our colleagues at the Jewish Museum of milwaukee, telling the story of a family who attempted to escape from nazi occupied prague via impassioned plooe for american visa based on talent as a dress kainer. The request failed. The family perished. Her designs survived and have been brought to testimony of what america lost when we decide the desperate souls were unwanted. As we hear the case of this evening the the case of in family wasnt ewe nic and it wasnt just the haters complicit in the murder of the innocent. Mr. Dobbs talk is part of the shapiro lecture series made possible by gloria l. Shapiro. I want to thank Program Partner willings, the library and the United States Holocaust Memorial museum. Here to to introduce mr. Dobbs is a Holocaust Museum midatlantic regional director, patterned t patterned, andre abraham. Thank you, marvin. Im andre sabril. I have occasion to get to baltimore and speak
The Holocaust Memorial museum. My name is bill benson and im the host of the museums Public Program firstperson, thank you for joining us today. We are in the 20th year of the First Person Program and the first person today is mrs. Door clayman who we will meet shortly. This 2019 season is made possible by the generosity of the lewis frank and Smith Foundation with additional funding from the Arlene Fisher foundation the first person is a series of twiceweekly conversations with survivors of the holocaust who share with us their firsthand accounts of their experience during the holocaust each of our first person gas serves as a volunteer here at the museum. The program will continue until august 8. The museums website provides information about each of the up coming firstperson guests. Theodore will share with us or firstperson account of her experience during the holocaust and as a survivor for about 45 minutes. If we have time towards the end of the program that we will have the oppo
Gordon it made me a fan of john, just because he was a good old yankee. I am not sure that being a northerner has affected me consciously, i do not like to think that i am letting the present influence my conception of the past. So i am not sure. But i am a new englander for sure. Brian can you remember when you first heard about john adams . Gordon probably not until high school. I did not know much about him, not until college. I had not gotten to see his home until after college. So it was a long time before i got to know him. Now, because they did three volumes in the library of america about his writings, i really got to know him. To know him better than i know most of my friends. He is really something. Brian you said in your book that he had it and Thomas Jefferson did not. Why do think one did and the other didnt . Gordon adams was a puritan in that sense. He came out of that tradition, they kept diaries. He needed to write out his emotions and feelings. He put everything in th
Brian gordon wood, as a longtime historian, what impact does it have on you that you were born in concord, massachusetts, grew up around boston . What has it done to your thinking of history . Gordon it made me a fan of john, just because he was a good old yankee. I am not sure that being a northerner has affected me consciously, i do not like to think that i am letting the present influence my conception of the past. So i am not sure. But i am a new englander for sure. Brian can you remember when you first heard about john adams . Gordon probably not until high school. I did not know much about him, not until college. I had not gotten to see his home until after college. So it was a long time before i got to know him. Now, because they did three volumes in the library of america about his writings, i really got to know him. I think i got to know him better than i know most of my friends. He is really something. Brian you said in your book that he had it and Thomas Jefferson did not. W
You may have noticed the protesters outside, the group complained that he publishes his direct is too quickly, we can keep up with them. He started with charles dickens, he wrote a hypnotic book about dickens and mesmerism. [laughter] thank you. You will wake up eventually when fred comes out. He wrote a biography of thomas carlyle. That was a finalist in the National Book critics circle. Mark twain, John Quincy Adams, abraham lincoln, and this great book he will be talking about theght, lincoln and abolitionists. Historians want to tell you about what happened in the world and why it is important. This is from the carlisle biography one of the most famous librarians in history , he used to go there a lot. He did not do well. The library and a librarian where generating small antagonisms toward each other. This culminated in the public criticism during parliamentary hearings. That is when libraries were really important. On the future of the museum in of9, he was one more example the a