Narrator from the earliest edges of recorded time, people have sought to make more of their lives than satisfying the everyday necessities of food and drink, clothing and shelter, the universal desire for something beautiful. Something ordered and in good taste is expressed in the architecture, the arts, sports, the varying patterns of hospitality. In these designs for living, there are impressive parallels everywhere in this truly wonderful world. As americans, we are proud of our skyscrapers, justly so. Great steel, stone and glass etched against the skyline. The pinnacle degrees of the street. Nothing is more american of course than baseball, the Great American game that brings young and old together to share the enthusiasm. Its a hit for sure, and how the fans do love it. The rolling countryside of new england, with its rugged sea coast towns, reminds us of the old worlds from whence our forbearers came. Those sailing ships that traverse the sailing seas still haunt our dreams of a
Will have him just on audio. We will see how that goes. We hope that you can hear well enough if we do it this way and let us know in the chat box if it is not working for you. So just a warm hello to all of you, i am so happy to see that there are so many of you. My entered i am the owner and i want to start by thanking our speakers for being game to switch and for all of us this is a new way of life, we are presenting tonight in the partnership with a very good friend from the public library. I think we are all good by the precarious and frightening reality at this moment but there are so many books that can serve as antidotes and historical memory is certainly one of those antidotes. I think its another were sharing the next 45 minutes or hour or so tonight. And basically before introducer speakers more detail and step aside are many minds or whatever it is that we do these days, i just want to say quickly that davids book, here it is unmasking the angel of death is available or wha
I want to start by thanking our speaker David Marwell and David Goldman for agreeing to switch to this new medium. Its the medium of livestream and we are presenting that tonight in partnership with their very good friends at the princeton public library. I think we are all gripped by the precarious and frightening reality of this moment but there are so many of us in this is one of those antidotes. We are sharing the next hour tonight. Briefly before i introduce our speakers i just want to say quickly that David Marwells book mengele unmasking the angel of death available at labyrinth or your nearest and dearest local bookstore. All of us in the independent bookselling world are trying to find a way to find your support if you want to buy this book at labyrinth that will be shipped for free. If you place your order over the phone we have phone numbers in the chat box and also on our web site. That is the easiest way for you to get a book. And the logistics i want to make sure that you
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Topics, but it also is led by some of the worlds leading scholars, period. It is of course the holocaust. For this session, weve asked dr. Alexander richi who serves of the con veener of our president ial countslers to lead dr. Gare hard weinberg and jeff mcgargy. Alex has been involved with the museum since her first appearance at our 2014 dproens, and in those five years weve kept her quite busy. Many meetings, committees and also as you heard this morning, leading a lot of our educational travel tours. She has a deep and personal connection to the holocaust, as her fatherinlaw, who im sure shes going to explain more about, was himself in auschwitz during world war ii. So to hear the latest in holocaust scholarship and look at what was going on in june 1944, its my pleasure to ask dr. Richie to come up. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you so much. This is indeed a topic very, very close to my heart. As most of you know i live in warsaw in poland, as you just heard my fatherinlaw was in