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The Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation is a nonprofit, volunteer organization. Its purpose is to identify and recognize sites of American Jewish historical interest. The society sponsors and promotes programs of local and national historic interest. Cooperating with local historical societies, communities, churches and synagogues, the society encourages dialogue and interactive recognition of the commonality of the American experience.
In recognition and commemoration of the Jewish experience, which has been poorly told, remembered and recognized in the world media, the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation conceived, created and funded the memorial.
The enormous sculpted knurled olive tree is modeled on a 500-year-old olive tree trunk retrieved near the Garden of Gethsemane.
For many years, the Jewish cemetery stood simultaneously as a reminder of American Western diversity and, as the Comstock Cemetery Foundation observed, “as a disgrace upon those with no tolerance.”
The Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, U.K. Branch Chairman, Martin Sugarman, announced the placement of a historical marker honoring Vera Atkins — a British Special Operations Executive Spymaster during World War II. The marker is located on the side of the Nell Gywyy House at 5 Whitehead’s Grove, London, England SW3 3HA, adjacent to a Blue Plaque for American Abolitionist leader, Frederick Douglas.
The public is invited to the unveiling program, 1-4 PM on August 11, 2022, at 105 Broadway Street, Albany, Indiana. It will be followed by a documentary film screening, A Voice Among the Silent: The Legacy of James G. McDonald, refreshments, and Q&A to follow. Contact Michael Brown, ijhs@ijhs.org, 317-749-0048.