Held on September 21, 2016
Scott Miller is the former Chief Curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), a position he held for nearly 30 years. During this event he discusses his book, co-authored with Sarah Ogilvie, on the fate of the passengers of the St. Louis ship that left Nazi Germany in 1939 only to be turned away by the U.S. and Cuban governments upon arrival. Moderated by Dr. Susan Jacobowitz, Professor of English at Queensborough Community College.
Scott Miller is the former Chief Curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), a position he held for nearly 30 years. Prior to the Museum's opening to the public in 1993, Scott was a research historian for USHMM's Wexner Learning Center – a multimedia information center on the Holocaust. In 2001, Scott was appointed Director of the Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors – the Holocaust Museum’s names-information and tracing center.
In 2006, Scott assumed his position as USHMM's Director of Curatorial Affairs, which oversees the Museum’s archival, artifact, photo, film, music, and oral history collections. He co-edited with Randolph Braham, The Nazis’ Last Victims: The Holocaust in Hungary (Wayne State University Press: 1998), and has co-authored with Sarah Ogilvie, Refuge Denied – The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust (University of Wisconsin Press: 2006), the story of their search for the St. Louis passengers.
Scott has also taught Jewish History for the Jewish Studies Program at American University, in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Susan Jacobowitz is a Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. She earned her doctorate at Brandeis University and wrote her dissertation on second-generation experience. Research areas include second-generation literature and performance art, Australian Jewish and immigrant writing, conflicts and challenges of Jewish identity, and graphic texts. She has participated as a scholar in workshops and seminars at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Her scholarship has been published in Australia, the United States, Germany, Brazil, Israel, and India. Dr. Jacobowitz teaches Introduction to Literature, Exploring Graphic Genres, and Holocaust Literature at QCC.
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