Rachel Jagoda Lithgow

Website : www.lamuseumoftheholocaust.org
Residence : Los Angeles, CA

Biographical information

Rachel Jagoda Lithgow is the youngest Museum Director in California. Beginning her career in Holocaust education in 1996 with Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, she has developed an expertise in both oral history, and Jewish Rare Survivor Experiences of the Shoah. In 1999, she left the Shoah Foundation to teach, and pursue a graduate degree in Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she studied under Dr. David Myers and Dr. Saul Friedlander. While at UCLA, she helped to develop the first oral history project on Pediatric Pain, and continues to interview children for the NIMH Project, The History and Narratives of Pain. Lithgow continues to teach her own class, which she developed for UCLA called Jewish History from a Feminist Perspective. In 2002, she was hired to head the oldest Museum of the Holocaust in The United States, The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Lithgow has written several articles, most recently, "The Jews of Cuba and Why You Should Care About Them." Currently, she resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Ian Lithgow, an actor.

Discussion topics

• The Jews of Cuba and Why You Should Care About Them: A history of Jewish Cuba, Cuba's role during WWII, and the current state of affairs today
• Women and Resistance: The Unknown Stories of the Heroines of the Holocaust
• Women of Valor: Jewish Saloniere Women of the 18th -19th Century
• From Forced Migration To Annihilation: The Twisted Path To Auschwitz
• Oral History: Using Oral History Techniques to Improve Interviewing and Interpersonal Skills

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