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Refuge Denied: St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust

KHRCA BuildingKHRCA 2016-17 Colloquia – Fleeing Genocide: Displacement, Exile and the refugee. Event 1: Refuge Denied: St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust. Wednesday, September 21st, 2016 at 12:20pm.

Speakers: Dr. Scott Miller, Director of Curatorial Affairs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Dr. Susan Jacobowitz, Associate Professor of English, Queensborough Community College.

Dr. Miller, discusses his book, co-authored with Sarah Ogilvie, on the fate of the passengers of the SS St. Louis ship that left Nazi Germany in 1939 only to be turned away by the Cuban and US governments upon arrival. Scott Miller is the Director of Curatorial Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He has worked at the Holocaust Museum since 1989. Prior to the opening of the Holocaust Museum to the public in 1993, Scott was a research historian for the museum’s Wexner Learning Center – a multimedia information center on the Holocaust. In 2001 Scott was appointed Director of the Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors – the Holocaust Museum’s names-information and tracing center. In 2006 Scott assumed his current position as Director of Curatorial Affairs, which oversees the Museum’s archival, artifact, photo, film, music and oral history collections. He co-edited with Randolph Braham The Nazis’ Last Victims: The Holocaust in Hungary (Wayne State University Press: 1998), and has co-authored with Sarah Ogilvie Refuge Denied – The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust (University of Wisconsin Press: 2006), the story of their search for the St. Louis passengers. Scott has also taught Jewish History for the Jewish Studies Program at American University, in Washington, DC.











When: Wed., Sep. 21, 2016 at 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm
Where: Queensborough Community College
222-05 56th Ave.
718-281-5044
Price: Free
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KHRCA BuildingKHRCA 2016-17 Colloquia – Fleeing Genocide: Displacement, Exile and the refugee. Event 1: Refuge Denied: St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust. Wednesday, September 21st, 2016 at 12:20pm.

Speakers: Dr. Scott Miller, Director of Curatorial Affairs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Dr. Susan Jacobowitz, Associate Professor of English, Queensborough Community College.

Dr. Miller, discusses his book, co-authored with Sarah Ogilvie, on the fate of the passengers of the SS St. Louis ship that left Nazi Germany in 1939 only to be turned away by the Cuban and US governments upon arrival. Scott Miller is the Director of Curatorial Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He has worked at the Holocaust Museum since 1989. Prior to the opening of the Holocaust Museum to the public in 1993, Scott was a research historian for the museum’s Wexner Learning Center – a multimedia information center on the Holocaust. In 2001 Scott was appointed Director of the Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors – the Holocaust Museum’s names-information and tracing center. In 2006 Scott assumed his current position as Director of Curatorial Affairs, which oversees the Museum’s archival, artifact, photo, film, music and oral history collections. He co-edited with Randolph Braham The Nazis’ Last Victims: The Holocaust in Hungary (Wayne State University Press: 1998), and has co-authored with Sarah Ogilvie Refuge Denied – The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust (University of Wisconsin Press: 2006), the story of their search for the St. Louis passengers. Scott has also taught Jewish History for the Jewish Studies Program at American University, in Washington, DC.

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