Holocaust History Through a New Lens
Art by Luke Atkinson
Join Sonia Booth, a member of the education staff at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, for a tour and discussion of the special exhibition “Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration and Complicity in the Holocaust.”
In the past, much Holocaust history and scholarship focused on the victims and the perpetrators of the Holocaust. This show expands the lens to look at all the others who needed to be involved for the Holocaust to occur: local policemen, neighbors, teachers, friends, civil servants. The tour will touch on the thinking behind the organization and layout of “Some Were Neighbors,” and describe different educational tools used in the exhibition.
Location
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW
Washington,
DC
Neighborhood: National Mall
Past event
Instructor
Sonia Booth is a museum educator. She currently works as a coordinator of programs at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and before she moved to D.C. she gave tours of the Boston Massacre site in Massachusetts. As part of the Knowledge Commons DC organizing team, she helps wrangle volunteers, facilitators, and classes. Her favorite fruit is cherimoya.