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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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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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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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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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).
Past Events
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Young Readers Author Talk: "Andrew Higgins and the Boats That Landed Victory in WWII"
09/10/2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMJoin curator Josh Schick and Authors Nancy Rust and Carol Stubbs as they discuss their new book, Andrew Higgins and the Boats That Landed Victory in WWII, published by Pelican Publishing.
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"Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation" with author Robert Fieseler and Ed Lengel, PhD
09/09/2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMRobert Fieseler, in conversation with Dr. Ed Lengel, will discuss this award-winning book which chronicles the events of that night, the controversies in the aftermath of the fire and the activism that followed and proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement.
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"Apocalypse '45"
09/02/2020 | 7:00 PM - 10:00 PMJoin us on the 75th anniversary of V-J Day for a special digital screening of the new Discovery Channel documentary Apocalypse ’45.
