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Rebecca Erbelding

Historian, Archivist, and CuratorWashington, DC

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Dr. Rebecca Erbelding Listen to Rebecca Erbelding’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Dr. Rebecca Erbelding is a historian of American responses to the Holocaust. Erbelding is the author of the forthcoming book, Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe, and currently an archivist and curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She received her PhD in history from George Mason University.

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