Yom HaShoah, Holocaust
Remembrance Day, is a time to remember, to commemorate, and to honor all those
who died in the Holocaust, as well as the survivors who endured those very dark
and terrible years. Sadly, Jewish history is replete with many earlier
instances of anti-Semitism,…
by James Nadel, Communications Outreach Associate
A month ago, the Center for Jewish History hosted “Echoes
and Reflections,” a traveling program for educational
professionals that focuses on Holocaust pedagogy. Echoes and Reflections was
originally co-designed by three of the world’s most significant Jewish
institutions: the Anti-Defamation League, Yad-Vashem (the Holocaust museum of Israel) and the…
See the Religious Text the U.S. Government Printed for Concentration-Camp Survivors
#YomHashoah #HolocaustRemembranceDay
Artifact from The American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) preserved here at the Center in The Werner J. and Gisella Levi Cahnman Preservation Laboratory http://www.cjh.org/p/140
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…
Images: Recha Freier; Jewish children singing at the Youth Aliyah School in Berlin, ca. 1940; a group of German children who have made it to Palestine as part of Youth Aliyah in 1934.
The following poems (in German) are taken from Recha Freier’s Auf die Treppe. (Hamburg : Hans Christians Verlag, 1976). Freier founded the Youth Aliyah organization in 1933,…