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Curator’s Corner: African American Liberators

  • Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center 100 Crescent Beach Road Glen Cove, NY, 11542 United States (map)

Curator’s Corner

In honor of Black History Month, Dr. Thorin Tritter, HMTC’s Museum and Programming Director, talked about the several images in HMTC’s galleries that show African American soldiers. These photographs capture some of the 1.5 million African Americans who served during WWII, fighting the Nazis and their racial ideology, even while Jim Crow laws and segregation remained in force back home in the United States. Dr. Tritter discussed the Double V campaign and the fight for freedom overseas and at home.

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Earlier Event: February 17
When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance, a book discussion with historian Michael S. Neiberg
Later Event: February 24
'Alien' Soldiers at Camp Ritchie, presented by Beverley Eddy, author of Ritchie Boy Secrets: How a Force of Immigrants and Refugees Helped Win World War II.