Whistleblowers

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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A compelling nonfiction graphic novel, Whistleblowers is the true story of four courageous individuals who risked their careers — or their lives — to confront the unfolding Holocaust. 

Who were the whistleblowers?

• Alan Cranston — a young journalist and future U.S. senator who exposed the truth of Hitler’s plans.

• Henry Morgenthau, Jr. — a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s cabinet who confronted the President over the plight of Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler

• Jan Karski — an eyewitness to Nazi atrocities who met with American and British officials to alert them about the death camps.

• Josiah E. DuBois Jr. — an American civil servant who blew the whistle on colleagues inside the Roosevelt administration who were blocking the rescue of refugees.

Acclaimed author Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of the David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and award-winning comics creator Dean Motter bring to life these tales of moral courage in the face of genocide in a captivating graphic novel introduced by attorney and activity Mark Zaid.

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MEET THE PANEL

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Dr. Rafael Medoff (right) is the founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of more than twenty books about the Holocaust, Zionism, and American Jewish history. Dr. Medoff has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University, Purchase College of the State University of New York, and (currently) Yeshiva University. He is a Fellow of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University. His latest book is America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History (Jewish Publication Society & University of Nebraska Press).

Mark S. Zaid (left) is a Washington, D.C. based national security attorney. He is repeatedly named a “Best Lawyer” in Washingtonian Magazine’s bi-annual designation for his national security or whistleblower work.  In 2017, Mr. Zaid co-founded Whistleblower Aid, a non-profit law firm that provides pro bono legal representation to whistleblowers, particularly in the national security arena. He is the grandson of the late Rabbi David Max Eichhorn, who with U.S. forces liberated Dachau Concentration Camp, and he co-edited the book The GI’s Rabbi: World War Two Letters of Rabbi David Max Eichhorn (Univ. Press Kansas, 2004).

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