Out of the Archives: Serendipity
by Kevin Schlottmann, Archival Services Manager, Center for Jewish History
Today is International Cat Day. This morning, one of our archival fellows was processing a collection from the Leo Baeck Institute, when she came across a diary/sketchbook. Inside she discovered a small glassine envelope containing little white chips. Upon closer inspection, the chips turned…
Visiting card with photograph of Albert Einstein shoveling snow in Montréal (Québec). 1929. Montréal Portraits Men. From the Leo Baeck Institute’s Albert Einstein Collection.
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…
Remembering Kristallnacht
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History
November 9th -10th marks the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a series of attacks on Jews in Germany and Austria that was a turning point for the Nazi Party. Kristallnacht is often looked at as the beginning of the Holocaust.
Each of the five partners of the Center for Jewish History has material on Kristallnacht…