Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Take a minute to access one of the thousands of digitized Holocaust artifacts including over 300 oral histories and over 200 memoirs. Access.cjh.org
A few selections:
American Jewish Historical Society’s Photograph: Markers for graves of 80 victims found dead of Nazi brutality in the concentration camp at Ludwigslust http://access.cjh.org/210628
Leo Baeck Institute’s National Socialism…
application deadline is April 17, 2015.
The
Center for Jewish History and the American Jewish Historical Society offer a
six-week Fellowship to recent Ph.D.s and doctoral candidates conducting
original research using the collections of the Center’s five partners: American
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By David P Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History
With the Armenian Genocide back in the news I looked into the Raphael Lemkin collection at the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History.
Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide.” Some of his papers and research materials are held by the American Jewish Historical Society including many index…
By J.D. Arden, M.L.I.S., Reference Services Librarian, Genealogy Specialist, Center for Jewish History
Image: Street Scene [Bucharest]
Collection of Leo Baeck Institute
Wednesday, April 8th is International Romani Day,celebrating and raising awareness of the Romani people, an ethnic minority with
roots in Northern India who, like the Jewish people, experienced an expulsion
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