Holocaust Education: Museums, Etc.
American Jewish Historical Society
101 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116
617-226-1245
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The American Jewish Historical Society provides access to more than 25 million documents and 50,000 books, photographs, art and artifacts that reflect the history of the Jewish presence in the United States from 1654 to the present. Among the treasures of this heritage are the handwritten original of Emma Lazarus’ The New Colossus, which graces the Statue of Liberty; records of the nation’s leading Jewish communal organizations and important collections in the fields of education, philanthropy, science, sports, business and the arts. Founded in 1892, AJHS is the oldest national ethnic historical organization in the nation. AJHS is one of five partner organizations at The Center for Jewish History in Manhattan and has a branch in Boston.
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Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
212-294-6160
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The Center for Jewish History is one of the foremost Jewish research and cultural institutions in the world, having served over one million people in more than 100 countries. It is home to five partner organizations—American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research—whose collections total more than 500,000 volumes and 100 million documents and include thousands of pieces of artwork, textiles, ritual objects, recordings, films and photographs. Taken as a whole, the collections span more than 600 years of history and comprise the largest repository of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel. At the Center, the history of the Jewish people is illuminated through scholarship and cultural programming, exhibitions and symposia, lectures and performances.
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Holocaust Museum and Study Center
17 South Madison Avenue
Spring Valley, NY 10977
845-356-1974
http://holocauststudies.org/index.html
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INTRODUCTION
The Holocaust Museum & Study Center, formerly known as the Rockland Center for Holocaust Studies, is unique in the Lower Hudson Valley Region. The idea for a permanent Center for Holocaust Studies originated with the Rockland County Holocaust Commission, which was appointed by the County Legislature on May 15, 1979. In 1988, the Center opened its doors to the public and has become an important museum, cultural and educational center for the region.
MISSION STATEMENT
The Holocaust Museum & Study Center (HMSC) is committed to the goals of education and commemoration. Its mission is to educate, examine and explore the history of the Holocaust with authenticity, dignity, and compassion. The mission is accomplished through educational programs, lectures, exhibitions, teacher training seminars and commemoration ceremonies that will insure that th profound lessons of the Holocaust will not be forgotten, and will not be repeated. Within the context of this mission, the lessons of cultural diversity, mutual respect and understanding of the other are emphasized.
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Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center
4800 Mt. Hope Drive
Baltimore, MD 21215
410-624-2090
http://www.redcross.org/find-help/contact-family/holocaust-tracing
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More than 60 years after World War II, the pain of family separation still weighs heavily in many hearts. The Nazi regime tore families apart as it conscripted millions of men, women and children into forced labor or shipped them to concentration camps. Ever since, survivors have endured the anguish of not knowing the fate of loved ones.
If you are one of these survivors, the American Red Cross can help. We have the resources to find answers to questions you've asked for more than half a century.
The American Red Cross Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center is a national clearinghouse for persons seeking the fates of loved ones missing since the Holocaust and its aftermath. We assist U.S. residents searching for proof of internment, forced/slave labor, or evacuation from former Soviet territories, for themselves or family members. This documentation may be required for reparations.
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Israel Museum-Jerusalem
PO Box 71117
Jerusalem, 91710
Israel
972-2-670-8811
http://www.english.imjnet.org.il/htmls/home.aspx
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The Israel Museum is the largest cultural institution in the State of Israel and is ranked among the world’s leading art and archaeology museums. Founded in 1965, the Museum houses encyclopedic collections, including works dating from prehistory to the present day, in its Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Jewish Art and Life Wings, and features the most extensive holdings of biblical and Holy Land archaeology in the world. In just forty-five years, thanks to a legacy of gifts and generous support from its circle of patrons worldwide, the Museum has built a far-ranging collection of nearly 500,000 objects, representing the full scope of world material culture.
In the summer of 2010, the Israel Museum completed the most comprehensive upgrade of its 20-acre campus in its history, featuring new galleries, entrance facilities, and public spaces. The three-year expansion and renewal project was designed to enhance visitor experience of the Museum’s collections, architecture, and surrounding landscape, complementing its original design by Alfred Mansfeld and Dora Gad. Led by James Carpenter Design Associates of New York and Efrat-Kowalsky Architects of Tel Aviv, the project also included the complete renewal and reconfiguration of the Museum’s Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Archaeology Wing, Edmond and Lily Safra Fine Arts Wing, and Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Wing for Jewish Art and Life.
Among the highlights of the Museum’s original campus is the Shrine of the Book, designed by Armand Bartos and Frederick Kiesler, which houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest biblical manuscripts in the world, as well as rare early medieval biblical manuscripts. Adjacent to the Shrine is the Model of Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period, which reconstructs the topography and architectural character of the city as it was prior to its destruction by the Romans in 66 CE, and provides historical context to the Shrine’s presentation of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The Museum’s celebrated Billy Rose Art Garden, designed for the original campus by Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi, is counted among the finest outdoor sculpture settings of the 20th century. An Oriental landscape combined with an ancient Jerusalem hillside, the garden serves as the backdrop for the Israel Museum’s display of the evolution of the modern western sculptural tradition. On view are works by modern masters including Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Moore, Claes Oldenburg, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, and David Smith, together with more recent site-specific commissions by such artists as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Mark Dion, James Turrell, and Micha Ullman.
The Ruth Youth Wing for Art Education, unique in its size and scope of activities, presents a wide range of programming to more than 100,000 schoolchildren each year, and features exhibition galleries, art studios, classrooms, a library of illustrated children’s books, and a recycling room. Special programs foster intercultural understanding between Arab and Jewish students and reach out to the wide spectrum of Israel’s communities.
In addition to the extensive programming offered on its main campus, the Israel Museum also operates two off-site locations: the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum, an architectural gem built in 1938 for the display of archaeology from ancient Israel; and Ticho House, which offers an ongoing program of exhibitions by younger Israeli artists in a historic house and garden setting.
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Jewish Genealogy Society
Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc.
PO Box 631
New York, NY 10113-0631
212-294-8318
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The Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (JGS) was founded in New York in 1977, becoming the first of what are now over 80 such societies worldwide. In the years since its founding, the JGS membership has grown to more than 1,000, with members from both the New York metropolitan area as well as elsewhere in the U.S. and abroad.
The JGS has presented innovative programming and seminars over the years, including monthly meetings with guest lecturers from a variety of disciplines; field trips to cemeteries, libraries and archives; beginner workshops, initiated in the 1980s, which served as a model for other organizations; a daylong annual seminar, “Beyond the Basics,” which presents classes for all levels of researchers; and, since 1997, a lecture series in partnership with the 92nd Street YM-YWHA in New York.
The JGS sponsored the first summer conference for Jewish genealogists in 1981, setting the precedent for annual summer seminars each year since, held in various U.S. cities and in such international locations as London, Paris, Toronto and Jerusalem. The JGS also hosted summer conferences in New York City in 1985, 1991, 1999 and 2006.
The JGS has been a leader in disseminating information through its high-quality publications. Dorot, a quarterly newsletter, contains information about upcoming and past meetings, book reviews, short articles and summaries of pertinent items from various repositories and other organizations, feature articles on genealogical research, tips on new Internet sites and other sources of interest to members.
The highly praised book, Genealogical Resources in the New York Metropolitan Area, is an invaluable tool for anyone doing genealogical research in or around New York City. Edited by JGS past president Estelle M. Guzik and published by the JGS in 1989, the book can be found in libraries around the globe. A new, completely revised edition, titled Genealogical Resources in New York, was published in May 2003.
The JGS has given generous financial support through annual donations to a variety of archival projects and repositories including the New York Public Library, New York City Municipal Archives, National Archives (Northeast Region), YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Leo Baeck Institute, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, American Jewish Historical Society, JewishGen and JRI-Poland, and the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation Genealogy Project at the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland.
The JGS entered the electronic information age in 1997 by establishing its own web site on the Internet, www.jgsny.org, and initiating indexing projects which have become databases available through the JGS web site. Notable among them are the indexing of the Brooklyn Naturalization records, the cemetery burial society database, and the New York Landsmanshaftn database.
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Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd Street
New York, NY 10128
212-423-3200
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/
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Founded in 1904 with just 26 donated objects, the Museum has grown a thousand-fold, and its collections now comprise 27,000 items, ranging from archaeological artifacts to works by today’s cutting-edge artists. Whether hundreds of years old or newly created, each object collected or exhibited by the Museum embodies an aspect of a truly universal story: at once ancient and modern, global and local, material and spiritual.
A great place to start is our permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey. It tells the story of the Jewish people through more than 800 works of art chosen from the Museum’s remarkably diverse holdings of paintings and sculpture; prints and drawings; installation art; decorative arts; antiquities; and media, including a uniquely comprehensive body of radio and television programs related to the Jewish experience.
The Jewish Museum’s wide-ranging collection of objects is just the starting point for a dynamic exploration of art and ideas. In Culture and Continuity and in our temporary exhibitions, we continually seek to answer two important and intriguing questions: How have the Jewish people been able to thrive for thousands of years, often in difficult and even tragic circumstances? What constitutes the essence of Jewish identity? Whether we’re exhibiting a 2,000-year-old ceremonial object or delving into the world of Jewish hip-hop; offering talks and performances for discerning adults; presenting The New York Jewish Film Festival; hosting a group tour; or introducing schoolchildren, teens and families to archaeology, music or art, those fascinating and essential questions provide visitors of all ages and backgrounds with a feast for the eyes, the heart and the mind.
Once you’ve explored this website, including our ever-expanding gallery of online features, e-cards and gifts from our online shop, please visit us at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street in New York City to continue your journey of discovery in person.
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Jewish Museum of Maryland
15 Lloyd Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
410-732-6400
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Welcome to The Jewish Museum of Maryland, America’s leading museum of regional Jewish history, culture and community, located in downtown Baltimore, blocks from the Inner Harbor. Here at the JMM, visitors can uncover the roots of Jewish history in our landmark historic sites – the Lloyd Street Synagogue, built in 1845, now the nation’s third oldest surviving synagogue and B’nai Israel Synagogue, built in 1876 and still home to a vibrant congregation. Our Museum Campus includes three exhibition galleries featuring fascinating and diverse exhibitions that explore in depth, the Jewish American experience. The Museum offers a wide range of programs and special events for children, adults, and families as well as a research library and family history center. We invite students of all ages to experience the rich vitality of Jewish culture and heritage on and off-site through our education programs.
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Moriah Films
The Film Division of the
Simon Wiesenthal Center
1399 South Roxbury Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90035
http://www.moriahfilms.com/site/c.ahJKKYMGJjL2H/b.8079515/k.BE23/Home.htm
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Moriah Films is the Jack and Pearl Resnick Film Division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Our documentaries focus on the 3,500 year old Jewish experience as well as contemporary human rights and ethical issues. Moriah’s goal is to produce theatrical documentaries on a regular basis that both enlighten and educate while at the same time reach national and international audiences. Two of Moriahs’ films have been recipients of Academy Awards™ for Best Feature Documentary, Genocide (1981) and The Long Way Home (1997).
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Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Edmond J. Safra Plaza
36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
646-437-4202
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The mission of the Museum is to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the broad tapestry of Jewish life in the 20th and 21st centuries—before, during, and after the Holocaust.
Multiple perspectives on modern Jewish history, life, and culture are presented in the Museum’s unique Core Exhibition and award-winning special exhibitions.
Acclaimed public programs, including discussions, films, plays, and concerts, highlight the richness of Jewish culture and ideas.
The Museum’s mission extends across the country and the world with Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) and initiatives with affiliate organizations: the Auschwitz Jewish Center and JewishGen.
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National Museum of American Jewish Military History
1811 R street NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-265-6280
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The National Museum of American Jewish Military History, under the auspices of the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., documents and preserves the contributions of Jewish Americans to the peace and freedom of the United States, educates the public concerning the courage, heroism and sacrifices made by Jewish Americans who served in the armed forces, and works to combat anti-Semitism.
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024-2126
202-488-0400
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A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity. Federal support guarantees the Museum's permanent place on the National Mall, and its far-reaching educational programs and global impact are made possible by generous donors.
Located among our national monuments to freedom on the National Mall, the Museum provides a powerful lesson in the fragility of freedom, the myth of progress, the need for vigilance in preserving democratic values. With unique power and authenticity, the Museum teaches millions of people each year about the dangers of unchecked hatred and the need to prevent genocide. And we encourage them to act, cultivating a sense of moral responsibility among our citizens so that they will respond to the monumental challenges that confront our world. Today we face an alarming rise in Holocaust denial and antisemitism—even in the very lands where the Holocaust happened—as well as genocide and threats of genocide in other parts of the world. All of this when we are soon approaching a time when Holocaust survivors and other eyewitnesses will no longer be alive.
The Museum works closely with many key segments of society who will affect the future of our nation. Professionals from the fields of law enforcement, the judiciary and the military, as well as diplomacy, medicine, education and religion study the Holocaust, with emphasis on the role of their particular professions and the implications for their own responsibilities. These programs intensify their sense of commitment to the core values of their fields and their roles in the protection of individuals and society.
In addition to its leadership training programs, the Museum sponsors on-site and traveling exhibitions, educational outreach, Web site, campus outreach and Holocaust commemorations, including the nation’s annual observance in the U.S. Capitol. Our Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies works to ensure the continued growth and vitality of the field of Holocaust studies. As a living memorial to the Holocaust, we work to prevent genocide in the future through our Academy for Genocide Prevention which trains foreign policy professionals. Working with Holocaust survivors and an array of organizations, the Museum is a leader in galvanizing attention to the crisis in Sudan.
Since its dedication in 1993, the Museum has welcomed more than 30 million visitors, including more than 9 million school children and 91 heads of state. Today 90 percent of the Museum’s visitors are not Jewish, and our Web site, the world’s leading online authority on the Holocaust, on average receives visits from over 100 different countries daily. With hundreds of thousands of online visitors from countries with majority Muslim populations, translating our Web site into Arabic and Farsi is a top priority; already, portions are available in more than 20 languages. For more information, please visitwww.ushmm.org.
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Yad Vashem
The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
Har Hazikaron
P.O. Box 3477
Jerusalem 91034 Israel
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/index.asp
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As the Jewish people’s living memorial to the Holocaust, Yad Vashem safeguards the memory of the past and imparts its meaning for future generations. Established in 1953, as the world center for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is today a dynamic and vital place of intergenerational and international encounter.
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Yeshiva University Museum
Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
212-294-8330
http://www.yumuseum.org/index.php?pg=1
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Since its founding in 1973, Yeshiva University Museum’s changing exhibits have celebrated the culturally diverse intellectual and artistic achievements of 3,000 years of Jewish experience. The Museum provides a window into Jewish culture around the world and throughout history through its acclaimed multi-disciplinary exhibitions and award-winning publications. By educating audiences of all ages with dynamic interpretations of Jewish life, past and present, along with wide-ranging cultural offerings and programs, the Museum attracts young and old, Jewish and non-Jewish audiences.
