America's quotas weren't full and jobs would not have been endangered. So why were Anne Frank's family, the passengers on the St. Louis, and other European Jews turned away? Rafael Medoff tackles an enduring historical controversy.
Rafael Medoff is founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which focuses on America's response to Nazism and the Holocaust. He is the author of 15 books about the Holocaust, Zionism, and Jewish history.
Saturday February 15, 2014 2:00pm - 3:15pm EST
Cove I & II