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DESCRIPTION:For too long\, refugees from Nazi Germany have been little more
  than a footnote in the history of the Holocaust. Over the last two decades
 \, this general disregard has finally begun to change\, yet large gaps rema
 in. This lecture examines a recently discovered collection of fifty letters
  written to Kurt David Baum\, a Jewish teenager who fled Nazi Germany for A
 merica in 1937. Through close analysis of these personal documents  — kept 
 secret until Baum's death in 2004 — Barry Trachtenberg’s innovative researc
 h challenges prevailing narratives about Jewish refugee experiences in Amer
 ica. While emigration to the United States is often portrayed as a clear pa
 th to safety\, the Baum letters reveal a more complex reality marked by con
 tinued trauma\, isolation\, and powerlessness on both sides of the Atlantic
 .\n\nBarry Trachtenberg is the Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History a
 t Wake Forest University. In addition to numerous articles\, he has authore
 d\, most recently\, “The United States and the Holocaust: Race\, Refuge\, a
 nd Remembrance” (2018) and “The Holocaust and the Exile of Yiddish: A Histo
 ry of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye” (2022).\n\nThis event is generously spon
 sored by Judi Gottschalk.\n\nAbout the Series\n\nThe Holocaust Living Histo
 ry Workshop (HLHW) is an education and outreach program co-sponsored by the
  UC San Diego Library and the Jewish Studies Program. It aims to preserve t
 he memories of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust by offering publi
 c events involving witnesses\, descendants and scholars and through the use
  of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive. Past HLHW 
 workshops are now part of the Library’s digital collections and can be acce
 ssed online.
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LOCATION:Geisel Library\, Seuss Room
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SUMMARY:Write Us Long Letters: Trauma and Isolation in Jewish Refugee Lette
 rs from Nazi Germany to America\, 1937-1941\, Featuring Barry Trachtenberg
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