Interview with Joan Trumpauer mulholland. She recalls taking part in the 1961 freedom rides, attending tougaloo college, and serving at the Mississippi State penitentiary with other activists. This interview is part of a project on the Civil Rights Movement initiated by congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture, the american full like american folklife center. Joan i was born in washington, d. C. And raised in arlington, virginia, basically a mile down the road in apartments, which at that point was the only place in Northern Virginia that would rent to jews. This was the early 1940s, folks had come from new york, looking for government jobs. They wanted out of the boarding houses and they can move to buckingham and that was about it. What did your dad do . Joan they had those government jobs. My father came from southwest iowa, during the depression. My folks met at the midnight shift at the post Office Building in the elevat
This is three and a half hours. Good morning, the committee will come to order. And without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. With that, ill now recognize myself to give an opening statement. Two days ago, the entire world came together to Mark International holocaust Remembrance Day. In addition, 75 years ago this week, in january of 1945, the auschwitz berknau concentration camp was liberated from the nazis. It was one of the most infamous sites of the nazi genocide. More than a Million People were murdered there. The purpose of todays hearing is to commemorate these grave anniversaries to remember those we lost, and to honor those who are still with us. But it is not enough to simply recognize these dates. We must also contemplate what led to these atrocities. We must remember the holocaust in order to help combat bigotry, hate, and violence of all kinds today. I am so pleased to have our distinguished panel here today, i have asked
Hes the u. S. Governments main person for fighting antisemitism abroad and the champion for the rule of law in vulnerable and jewish communities around the world, please welcome to the stage special envoy for monitoring and combatting antisemitism, elan carr. Thank you so much. What an amazing room. I am so pleased and so honored to be with you today. Really, my most Important Message to you is a message of thank you. I owe you a debt of gratitude personally and the United States government owes you a debt of gratitude, because in my work, monitoring and fighting this ancient relentless sickness that is antisemitism, i have no more important address than the adl. There are many fine jewish organizations out there, but there is one organization that is synonymous with the fight against antisemitism and with the fight against ethnic and religious hatred and intolerance. Thats adl. [ applause ] thank you to epstein, thank you to jonathan greenblatt. What amazing leaders you have. Tim jaco
Antisemitism in america between wwi ww ii. Welcome everyone its good to see everybody and we are going to start todays topic in antisemitism in america between wwi ww ii. In the last time that we discussed antisemitism, we focused on the years between the civil war and the end of the 19th century which you will remember was it. The historians called emergence of a full fledged antisemitism society so just for a second to refresh your memory, one of the events in the emergence of that antisemitism society was the exclusion of jew from hotels in public accommodation it. And being excluded from the grand union hotel and in saratogas and in 1877, and remember that we also look at the slides like this one where we see in this image which is from a magazine and its caption is the dream of the jews realize and you will see that we talked about how the sign of john smith, as w back in 1920, was b ten down and its a little hard to st the top but is said that is being replaced and ifook at caref
Antisemitism in america between wwi ww ii. Welcome everyone its good to see everybody and we are going to start todays topic in antisemitism in america between wwi ww ii. In the last time that we discussed antisemitism, we focused on the years between the civil war and the end of the 19th century which you will remember was it. The historians called emergence of a full fledged antisemitism society so just for a second to refresh your memory, one of the events in the emergence of that exclusion of jewsm hotels ine publicccomdationt. Andeing excluded from the grand union hotel and in saratogas and in 1877, and remember that we also look at the slides like this one where we see in this image which is from a magazine and its caption is the dream of the jews realize and you will see that we talked about how the signf john smith, and this was bac in 1920, was being taken downnd its a little hard to see at the top but is saidhat is being replaced and if you look at carefully around the other