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…
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…
Illuminated Manuscript Presented in Thanks after the Holocaust
July 1945
Tangier, Morocco
Vellum, Gouache and Silk Ribbons, Bound in Leather
From the Collection of the American Sephardi Federation
On display through November 3rd
Hungarian Jews stranded in Morocco during World War II created this lavish thank-you note for Lorna…
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History
The UN General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The children of today will be the last generation to meet Holocaust survivors.
The Center for Jewish History houses countless artifacts and archives concerning this horrific period in history. However, learning about what happened…
In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History
Jews have had a long history of supporting the civil rights movement. From heavily Jewish leadership during the establishment of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909, to Jews participating in the March on Washington in 1963, to efforts…