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An American Chaplain in Buchenwald
An American Chaplain in Buchenwald
Rafael Medoff, Ph.D.
Founding Director
David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
7:00 PM ET Online
When Rabbi Herschel Schacter signed up as a chaplain in 1942, he expected to spend the war assisting Jewish GIs with their religious needs. But when his unit liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald, Schacter was thrust into the role of helping survivors rebuild their shattered lives and serving as their voice to the world. The riveting story of how the Holocaust transformed one rabbi—and how he, in turn, transformed the future of American Jewry.
Free program
Dr. Rafael Medoff is an American professor of Jewish history and the founding director of The David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which is based in Washington, D.C. and focuses on issues related to America's response to the Holocaust. He is the author or editor of 16 books about American Jewish history, Zionism, and the Holocaust. His first book, The Deafening Silence: American Jewish Leaders and the Holocaust, was published in 1987 by Shapolsky Books, the U.S. division of the Israeli publisher Steimatzky. His essays and reviews have appeared in many scholarly journals.