Archivist Stephen Mize, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), will present “The Hushed Witness: Discovering the James Grover McDonald Diaries” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 1, at MCC’s Warshof Conference Center, Flynn Campus Center. The presentation is sponsored by the Holocaust Genocide Studies Project at MCC. It is free and open to the public.
After holding a variety of key diplomatic posts and having access to the highest levels of government, McDonald became the first U.S. ambassador to Israel in 1949. His diaries record McDonald’s personal insights as witness to many of the defining moments of the 20th century. He also recorded meetings with Hitler and Mussolini; Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman; Cardinal Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII; and Israeli leaders such as David Ben Gurion, Chaim Weizmann and Golda Meir, among others.
The diaries were hidden from the public eye until April 2004 when the USHMM acquired them from McDonald’s daughters, after painstaking investigatory work by museum archivists. It was Mize who first realized the collection’s historical importance and facilitated its acquisition by the museum. In addition to working on the McDonald diaries, Mize has cataloged numerous collections and curated online exhibitions for the USHMM since 2000.
Please find attached an event flyer. For more information, please call Linda Ingraham, project coordinator at mailto:lingraham@monroecc.edu or x3321.
Rosanna Condello
College and Community Relations
02/13/2007
Attachments:
 HushWit final_Stephen Mize.pdf
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