Dr. Rafael Medoff will reflect on the current Olympics in China through a retrospective lens of the 1936 Olympic Games held in Nazi Germany.
Will international response be different?
The zoom presentation will also include Richard Neugass, son of one of the athletes who boycotted the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
register at: https://www.tialbany.org/event/olympic-lessons-learned.html
Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and the author of more than 20 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust. His latest is America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History, forthcoming from the Jewish Publication Society / University of Nebraska Press.
Sponsor: Temple Israel