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Tribute to
Queen Elizabeth IIThe National WWII Museum expresses its deepest sympathies to the British Royal Family and the peoples of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth on today’s passing of Queen Elizabeth II (1926–2022).
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Lunchbox Lecture: Unconditional Extermination: Operation Reinhard and the SS Camps at Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka
This presentation will offer a detailed history of the Operation Reinhard camps Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka in 1942–1943 and where they might fit in the larger history of the Holocaust.
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In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Art and Human Rights Opening Reception
The National WWII Museum invites you to the opening of In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Art and Human Rights, a special exhibition showcasing the work of illustrator and political cartoonist Arthur Szyk.
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Lunchbox Lecture: Mealtime in the Mess Halls: Food in the Japanese American Incarceration Camps of World War II
During World War II, 120,000 Japanese Americans attempted to adjust to their lives behind barbed wire at one of 10 incarceration camps—and this included encountering new food served in the mess halls.
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Alexander Jefferson
On June 22, Alexander Jefferson (1921-2022), one of the last of the Tuskegee Airmen, passed away at the age of 100.
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Lunchbox Lecture: Holocaust By Bullets
Before the killing centers opened at Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, and Majdanek, Jews were already being murdered by the Germans, their Axis allies, and local collaborators in Ukraine, Belarus, and other USSR republics.
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Hershel "Woody" Williams
Hershel “Woody” Williams, a dear friend of The National WWII Museum and the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, passed away today at age 98.
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A Black Soldier's Letters Home
Join us for a special program highlighting wartime correspondence from James Killion, Jr.
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China's War, China's Memories
Join us for an engaging conversation about Sir Rana Mitter's two masterful works, Forgotten Ally and China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism.
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Meet the Author--"Old Breed General: How Marine Corps General William H. Rupertus Broke the Back of the Japanese in World War II From Guadalcanal to Peleliu"
Old Breed General is the biography of Rupertus and the story of the Marines at war in the Pacific.
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The Orlin Russell Corey Memorial Lecture--Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter
Join us for a conversation on a unique and evocative portrait of World War II—and a charming coming-of-age story—from the private diaries of Winston Churchill's youngest daughter, Mary.
Notes from the Museum
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