September 22, 2020 - 4:00 pm PDT
At any one time, only a small percentage of our artifact collection is on exhibit in our Museum’s galleries. In this program, you can open the locked door of our archive for an exclusive peek at some of the artifacts in our vast collection.
Bernd Stevens fled Nazi Germany as a teenager in 1939, shortly before WWII. When war erupted, the Jewish teenager enlisted in the U.S. Army, and was quickly selected by the Army Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the predecessor to the CIA, for special training to conduct espionage behind enemy lines in Austria. The Bernd Stevens Collection held within the Holocaust Museum LA’s Archival Collection, includes materials related to Bernd’s time with the OSS, as well as his life in Germany before the war and photographs and documents from his life when he settled in California.
Join our Vice President of Education & Exhibits – Jordanna Gessler, and our Collection Manager – Christie Jovanovic, as they take us through the Bernd Stevens Collection, discussing some of their favorite artifacts, taking a deeper look at their history and significance, for an experience that will forever shape your understanding of the Holocaust.