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Help the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
tell the story of Jewish history in the 20th century through material
from your family.
We are seeking donations in the following categories:
Material reflecting Jewish life around the world, 1880-1930, for example:
Engagement and wedding contracts (ketubbot); invitations to life cycle
events; posters for cultural events; objects related to Sabbath and holidays;
materials from communal institutions such as burial societies, hospitals,
orphanages and old age homes; report cards, notebooks and diplomas from
Jewish schools; ordination certificates and testimonials for rabbis; items
related to occupations and professions; anti-Semitica; family trees suitable
for exhibition; reflections of Jewish socialism and communism; items reflective
of Jewish attitudes towards religion.
Material relating to the Holocaust:
Resistance weapons and underground flyers; objects made or used in ghettos;
camp uniforms and postcards; stars, armbands and other reflections of
Nazi race laws; material showing Jewish self-reliance in Germany 1933-1943
including Kulturbund, Winterhilfe and Jewish sports clubs; reflections
of religion, cultural life, creativity and friendship in ghettos, camps
and in hiding; children's art; Kindertransport and Youth Aliyah material.
Material reflecting survival and postwar resettlement, for example:
Objects from Displaced Persons camps; visas, immigration papers, and shipboard
items; items from Cyprus or otherwise reflecting legal and illegal immigration
to Palestine, and the establishment of the State of Israel.
Material reflecting Jews in the United States, 1654 to the present:
Peddlers' licenses; material showing the establishment of organizations
such as B'nai B'rith, Educational Alliance, NYANA, Hillel and UJA; advertising
posters aimed at Jews especially in Yiddish, German or Russian; landsmanshaft
and family circle material; Jewish cookbooks; expressions of Jewish patriotism;
anti-Semitica; posters and flyers for Jewish candidates; Jewish participation
in the Civil Rights movement; reflections of immigrant culture including
Yiddish theater; education including the establishment of institutions
of higher Jewish education; Jewish summer camping.
Material reflecting Jewish life worldwide, 1945 to the present:
Material from the Save Soviet Jewry movement; reflections of acculturation
of Soviet and Ethiopian Jews into Israeli or American society such as
learning materials and bilingual signs; posters and other materials from
Holocaust commemorations and Israel Independence Day celebrations; kibbutz
haggadot; expressions of feminism within Judaism; reflections of Jewish
activism; mementos from March of the Living; posters for Jewish events
outside of the United States and Israel including cultural events and
holiday celebrations
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