Rebecca Erbelding, Ph.D.

Rebecca Erbelding has been a historian, archivist, and curator at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum for the past twenty years. She holds a Ph.D. in American history from George Mason University and is the author of Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe (2018), which won the National Jewish Book Award for Writing Based on Archival Material. She served as a historical advisor and an on-camera expert in Florentine Films’ The U.S. and the Holocaust, directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein.

July 11, 2024

Episode 6: Lower than Animals

Despite the rise of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and the threat of renewed war in Europe, most Americans remained resolutely opposed to higher levels of Jewish immigration. Even as Jews faced persecution and genocide, antisemit…