This interview originally aired on In the Moment on SDPB Radio.
Rebecca Erbelding is an educator, historian, curator and archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She's also the author of "Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe."
Ahead of her presentation at the University of South Dakota, she joined In the Moment to talk about what she finds exciting about history.
Plus, she talks about what we can learn from how activists in the U.S. ignited a humanitarian response to an overseas atrocity.