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Feb 2, 2019 Holocaust, EU, History, Yale

Yale Professor Timothy Snyder on the Importance of the EU

This is an address by Professor Timothy Snyder at the official annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony held at the European Parliament on January 23, 2019.

Snyder asks what the next 75 years may bring and explains that the European Union rather than the nation-state is important to preserve peace and well-being.

Snyder is a history professor at Yale University. He is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is the faculty advisor for the Fortunoff Collection of Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, and sits on the advisory councils of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research and other organizations.

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