“WITNESS TO HISTORY” PUBLIC PROGRAM AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY TO FEATURE RARE U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM FILM FOOTAGE TAKEN BY AMERICANS IN HITLER’S EUROPE

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s archives contain rarely seen film footage taken by Americans in Europe during the early years of Nazism and the later invasion of Poland.  The footage provides a behind-the-scenes look at some of the 20th century’s most pivotal events.  

At “Witness to History: Americans in Hitler’s Europe,” best-selling author of In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin Erik Larson will be interviewed by award-winning journalist and the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice, Emeritus at Harvard University, Marvin Kalb. Using video from the Museum’s archives the program will explore what some Americans witnessed during these tumultuous times, what the American government knew, and what more could have been done to thwart Nazi Germany’s plans for war and genocide.  

The May 9 program will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Sanders Theatre at Harvard University in Cambridge.  Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for students, seniors, and members of the Museum; please contact the Harvard Box Office at 617.496.2222 or www.boxoffice.harvard.edu.