[- May is Jewish American Heritage Month -]
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of Jewish Americans who have helped form the fabric of American history, culture and society.
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[- A Forgotten Suitcase: The Mantello Rescue Mission -]
George Mandel, a Hungarian Jew working for the Salvadoran Embassy in Switzerland under the name "George Mantello," used his diplomatic position to issue documents identifying thousands of European Jews as citizens of El Salvador. He helped orchestrate one of the largest and least well known mass escapes of the war.
[- Jews in America -]
This National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored web site traces the 350 year history and evolution of the Jewish community in the North America.
[- Jewish Veterans of World War II -]
Fighting Nazi Germany took on special significance for one group of U.S. servicemen in the European Theater. Even those Jewish soldiers and sailors who were serving elsewhere in World War II understood that defeating the Axis would be a defeat for blind hatred of any ethnic group or nationality.
[- Event Highlights -]
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May 4 - 26
First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Every Tuesday and Wednesday at 1:00 PM
(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)May 5
Keynote Address
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) delivers the keynote address for the Library’s celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month.
(Library of Congress)May 6
Lecture
“American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust” 2010 Monna and Otto Weinman Annual Lecture
(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)May 10
Book Talk
Author Robin Gerber speaks about her new book “Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her”
(Library of Congress)May 13
Lecture
"Child’s Play: The Judaization of Adolescence in 20th-Century America"
Given by Jenna Weissman Joselit, Charles E. Smith Professor of Judaic Studies at George Washington University and a former Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the John W. Kluge Center at the LOC
(Library of Congress)May 14
Conversation with Holocaust survivor, Charles Stein
(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) 
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