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Springfield Jewish Response to the Holocaust

Dr. Mara Cohen Ioannides explores how Springfield’s Jewish community responded to the Holocaust and its impact.

Dr. Mara Cohen Ioannides will examine how Springfield’s Jewish community responded to news of the destruction of the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe. Through sharing the community’s calls to action, demands of the local non-Jewish population, and postwar assistance to European Jews, the Jews of Springfield helped shape interfaith responses that continue today. This program is part of the "Americans and the Holocaust" exhibit series.