Program Description: "The Holocaust and Hollywood Studios at Home and Abroad" with Professor Steven Carr, Purdue University
Professor Steven Carr's research on movie makers at the time of the Holocaust reveals what Hollywood knew, when they knew it, and what they did amidst growing anti-Semitism as awareness of the Holocaust unfolded. At the same time in the US larger debates were taking place over what to do in response to the growing global crisis of persecution, refugees and forced migration.
Steven Alan Carr, author and media professor at Perdue University, is the founder and director of the Purdue University Fort Wayne Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Indiana. A former Postdoctoral Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and a Research Fellow at the American Jewish Archives, he is the author of The Holocaust and Hollywood Studios at Home and Abroad (2026), Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History Up to World War II (2001), and co-author of Teaching History with Message Movies (2018).
