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Author Talk with Dr. Rebecca Erbelding (on Zoom)
October 10 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Join us for a VIRTUAL DISCUSSION with Dr. Rebecca Erbelding, author of Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe, as she discusses the links between Anti-Semitism in the early 20th Century and the present in a conversation moderated by Dr. Carl Bon Tempo.
About Dr. Rebecca Erbelding
Rebecca Erbelding is a historian of American responses to the Holocaust and the author of Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe, published by Doubleday in 2018, which won the National Jewish Book Award for Writing Based on Archival Material. She served as a historical advisor and an on-camera expert in Florentine Films’ The U.S. and the Holocaust, directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein, which debuted on PBS in September 2022. She is an educator and historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and frequently presents on the War Refugee Board; US immigration policy during the 1930s; and the “Hoecker album,” a photograph album owned by Karl Hoecker, the final adjutant to the commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her work on the Hoecker album has been adapted into a theatrical production, Here There are Blueberries, written by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, and developed by the Tectonic Theater Project. She holds a PhD in American History from George Mason University.
About Carl Bon Tempo
Carl J. Bon Tempo is an associate professor of history at SUNY-Albany, where he teaches courses in twentieth century United States history. He is the co-author, with Prof. Hasia Diner, of Immigration: An American History (2022) and Americans at the Gate: The United States and Refugees during the Cold War (2008). His writing and commentary have appeared in The Washington Post, The Hill, The Guardian, Pro Publica, and Vox, among others.
