Museum of Jewish Heritage
“These students will one day share the stories they hear and educate the children of tomorrow,” New York City Council member Julie Menin told JNS.
Marking its 25th anniversary, the Manhattan institution seeks to engage with the second and third generations of survivors.
JewishGen donated a planetary scanner to help the Central State Historical Archives in the Ukrainian city preserve vulnerable materials.
“A Jewish museum that has permitted [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] to speak during her campaign for election is stating falsehoods when it says [Ron] DeSantis can’t speak because ‘we don’t do politics,’ ” said Elliott Abrams, chairman of the Tikvah Fund.
The partnership allows researchers to access Yad Vashem’s Pages of Testimony data when doing a search on the JewishGen website, which includes nearly 3.8 million Holocaust records.
“Anniversaries provide an occasion to grieve those we’ve lost and to honor the acts of bravery and love that inspired us to carry on through dark and difficult days,” said museum president and CEO Jack Kliger.
“These horrific acts of emboldened anti-Semitism must end,” said Jack Kliger, president and CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Empty for 12 years, a former orphanage will be transformed into Beit HaKehillot museum and community center dedicated to Jewish heritage.
On its daily blog, the museum will post an activity geared to a variety of ages that guide children in exploring Jewish heritage, family history and human connection, among other topics.
“The choice by many victims of the Nazis to document their experiences through art was a form of resistance, and it was one that left a critically important set of records for future generations,” says Jack Kliger, president and CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City.
The museum visits are the second step in the new anti-hate crimes curriculum for New York City public schools introduced by city officials.
Outside: a German-made Model 2 freight car used for the deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in occupied Poland. Inside: 20 galleries with more than 700 original objects and 400 photographs.
