Jewish refugees, including a group of children who were recently rescued from internment camps in France, wait in Lisbon to board the SS Mouzinho, a ship that will bring them to the United States, 1941. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
2025 Ina Levine Annual Lecture
France’s collaborationist Vichy Regime rescinded the citizenship rights of thousands of Jews and others soon after it took power in 1940. The policy’s stated aim was to give France “back to the French,” and it chiefly targeted Jews without mentioning them explicitly. Join us to learn more about Vichy’s relations with Nazi Germany and the links between national exclusion, state antisemitism, and the implementation of the Holocaust in France.
A reception in the Hall of Witness will follow the program.
Opening Remarks
Dr. Elizabeth Anthony, Director, Visiting Scholar Programs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Speaker
Dr. Claire Zalc, Research Director, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS, France); Professor, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, France)
Moderator
Dr. Lisa Leff, Director, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required. For more information, please contact vscholars@ushmm.org.
The Ina Levine Invitational Scholar Award is endowed by the William S. and Ina Levine Foundation of Phoenix, Arizona.
The mission of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center, part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is to ensure the long-term growth and vitality of Holocaust Studies. To do that, it is essential to provide opportunities for new generations of scholars. The vitality and the integrity of Holocaust Studies require openness, independence, and free inquiry, so that new ideas are generated and tested through peer review and public debate. The opinions of scholars expressed before, during, or after their activities with the Mandel Center do not represent and are not endorsed by the Mandel Center or the Museum.