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Hardwired: On the Frontlines of Freedom

Naomi Kikoler, US Holocaust Memorial Museum

January 26, 2022 • Hardwired Global • Season 1 • Episode 15

In this conversation, Director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C, Naomi Kikoler, discusses the role of the Museum as the conscience of our country, designed to not only help Americans remember the Holocaust, but to be a resource for Congress in the prevention of future atrocities. Naomi outlines the strategies the Museum uses to communicate early warning signs of potential genocide, and then discusses what the Museum has done to draw attention to the atrocities suffered by the Yazidi community in Iraq who faced genocide under the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

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Naomi Kikoler is the Director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Naomi is a leading expert and strategist on mass atrocity prevention and international human rights advocacy and human rights law. Naomi’s own family members were victimized in the Holocaust. In this conversation, she shares that as she advocated for genocide prevention, she avoided work about the memory of the Holocaust because it felt too close to home. After some persuasion, she eventually accepted the role at the United States Holocaust Museum.

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