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Mize Shares the 'McDonald Discovery' with MCC


Archivist Stephen Mize from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shared the fateful story of his discovery of the James Grover McDonald diaries during presentations to MCC students, faculty and staff on March 1. Mize was the guest of Holocaust Genocide Studies Project student leaders. The 10,000-page diary tells the story of McDonald's experiences as an American diplomat and our country's first ambassador to Israel, from 1924 - 1951.

Despite serving our country for 30 years and affecting the lives of thousands of Holocaust refugees, Mize considers McDonald a "lost hero." When asked what impact he would like the diary to have Mize said, "I want people to know there was an incredbily decent American who saw unspeakable evil and said 'not on my watch.'"

The first volume of the diary "Advocate of the Doomed: 1932-1935" will be published on April 1, 2007.
 
(Pictured below is Stephen Mize in the Warshof Conference Center, Flynn Campus Center ,on March 1, with a slide of James Grover McDonald and David Ben Gurion shown behind him.)

 

Rosanna Condello
College and Community Relations
03/05/2007