Gallery XXXIII · The Museum of Everyday Living

The Menorah at 1932

How the persecution and murder of Europe's Jews reached ordinary American homes between 1932 and 1945: a menorah in a window in Kiel, the evening paper on the porch, a refugee ship off Miami, a waiting list at the consulate, letters that stopped coming, and the soldiers and newsreels that brought the camps home in 1945.

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