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The S.S. Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi with Daniel Lee, DPhil, and Jeremy Collins
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The Nazi Murder of the Disabled and the 1945 Hadamar Trial: A Conversation with Patricia Heberer-Rice, PhD, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Jeannine Burk
Learn MoreThe Museum lost a beloved member of our volunteer family on July 18, 2020 with the passing of Mrs. Jeannine Burk. Jeannine earned over 357 volunteer hours at the Museum beginning in July 2018. Although Jeannine was a relatively new addition to our volunteer corps, she was an integral member and seemed to have always been a part of the Museum family.
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The Liberation of Majdanek
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An Architect of Terror: Heinrich Himmler and the Holocaust
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