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Mark Your Calendars for October 30 – November 4, 2023
Join The National WWII Museum in New Orleans as we open our newest permanent exhibit hall, Liberation Pavilion, and host the 2023 Congressional Medal of Honor Society Convention.
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2023 Summer Seminar in Military History
Fellows were introduced to the wealth of resources available within the Museum’s collection and in the field at-large, gaining advice on how to use these valuable tools in their own teaching and scholarship.
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Adolfo Kaminsky
The long and astounding life of Adolfo Kaminsky (1925–2023) typifies a quite modern form of deception—the art of forging documents.
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Pearl Harbor Commemorative Ceremony
During this year’s commemorative ceremony, pay tribute to those who lost their lives on December 7, 1941, through a moving program that brings to life the enduring significance and legacy of this day, its heroic Medal of Honor actions, and its relevance today.
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Keep in Touch: Letters of Hope
During this webinar, Linda Hope, daughter of Bob Hope, and The National WWII Museum will discuss her father’s legacy by examining some of the letters he received, emphasizing how this translates to current classrooms and how letter writing can still make an impact on active military communities today.
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Why Did "Kristallnacht" Happen? Teaching the History of European Antisemitism
Learn about Kristallnacht or the “Night of Broken Glass” and how the history of European antisemitism helped lead to this event.
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Meet the Author—Borderlands Biography: Z. Anthony Kruszewski in Wartime Europe and Postwar America
Join us for an engaging evening with Z. Anthony Kruszewski—an eyewitness to the war in Europe, an extraordinary man, and leading intellectual in the Polish-American community.
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Tribute to
Queen Elizabeth IIThe National WWII Museum expresses its deepest sympathies to the British Royal Family and the peoples of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth on today’s passing of Queen Elizabeth II (1926–2022).
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Lunchbox Lecture: Unconditional Extermination: Operation Reinhard and the SS Camps at Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka
This presentation will offer a detailed history of the Operation Reinhard camps Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka in 1942–1943 and where they might fit in the larger history of the Holocaust.
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In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Art and Human Rights Opening Reception
The National WWII Museum invites you to the opening of In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Art and Human Rights, a special exhibition showcasing the work of illustrator and political cartoonist Arthur Szyk.
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Lunchbox Lecture: Mealtime in the Mess Halls: Food in the Japanese American Incarceration Camps of World War II
During World War II, 120,000 Japanese Americans attempted to adjust to their lives behind barbed wire at one of 10 incarceration camps—and this included encountering new food served in the mess halls.
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