The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum welcomed more than 200 guests during the fifth annual Linda and Tony Rubin Lecture, “Inside the Mind of a Nazi Perpetrator: The Search for the Rosenberg Diary” on Tuesday, May 27 at Kehillat Israel.
Speaking at the presentation were Suzy Snyder, Curator for Art and Artifacts at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Juergen Matthaeus, the Museum’s Director, Applied Research Scholars.
Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer
Alfred Rosenberg’s ideas, writings, and speeches became a formative part of Nazi ideology and the pursuit of “Lebensraum,” or living space, for the German people.
After a relentless 17-year search for Rosenberg’s diary, the Museum shares the significance of this recent acquisition to its permanent collection by taking individuals into the mind of a major Nazi ideologue, who was a close confidant of Adolf Hitler and instrumental in the “Final Solution.”
Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer
On December 17, 2013 the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) transferred the lost diary kept by Alfred Rosenberg to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
The lecture was presented in partnership with Kehillat Israel and is part of the Museum’s annual Los Angeles lecture series, generously supported by Palisadians Linda and Tony Rubin.
Through its national campaign Never Again: What You Do Matters, led by honorary chair Elie Wiesel, the Museum seeks to make critical investments to keep Holocaust memory alive as a relevant, transformative force in the 21st century.
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