You are cordially invited to attend:
Resources and Remembrance: ALA Visits The United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
Address: United State Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 200242126
(202) 4880400
When: Friday, June 22, 2007, 9 a.m. 12 noon
A special Friday morning event planned for the 2007 American Library
Association Annual Conference by the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum and the Jewish Information Committee of ALAs Ethnic and
Multicultural Exchange Round Table (EMIERT).
The free program features resource experts and Holocaust survivors
who will focus on the following new research collections and opportunities:
1- Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive. A major collection of
over 985 hours of archival footage documenting the Holocaust and World War II.
2 - Photo Archives. An expanding collection of over 85,000
photographic images gathered from archives, libraries, museums, photo
agencies, and private donors around the world documents the period
from the end of World War I to the early 1950s.
3 - Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.
A national registry maintained by the Museum to document the lives of
survivors who came to the United States after World War II. Currently
the registry includes almost 200,000 records related to survivors and
their families.
4 - The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and
Education and the Museums Oral History Collection.
Starting In 2007, the Museum has began to offer onsite access to
almost 52,000 oral history interviews conducted by the Visual History
Foundation, supplementing the Museums own collection of almost 9,000
oral history testimonies.
5 Archives. A collection of almost 40 million pages, including
microform reproductions of materials held by state and private
archival institutions in virtually every European country.
6 - Behind- the-Scenes Special Interest Tours.
7 - Lunch available for purchase at the Museum Café. The Museum Café
is a vegetarian facility not under rabbinic supervision. The kosher
meals on the menu are prepared and sealed under supervision off-site.
Those interested in preordering a ready to pick-up lunch for $8.80 (3
kosher choices included on the pick up menu), please mail check to
Ellen Zyroff, c/o San Diego County Library, 5555 Overland Ave., Bldg
15, San Diego, CA 92123. See pickup menu choices:
<http://www.ushmm.org/visit/cafe/>http://www.ushmm.org/visit/cafe/
For information: (858) 694-2484 or <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
8 - Afternoon free for touring museum's regular collections and
special exhibits. Browse: <http://www.ushmm.org/>www.ushmm.org
The United State Holocaust Memorial Museum is Americas national
institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of
Holocaust history. The museum, library, and archive serve as
Americas memorial to the millions of people murdered during the
Holocaust, i.e., the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and
annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators
between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary victims six million
were murdered; Gypsies, the handicapped and Poles were also targeted
for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic or national reasons.
Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovahs Witnesses, Soviet
prisoners of war and political dissidents also suffered grievous
oppression and death under Nazi tyranny. In light of the
re-emergence of a new generation of violent, anti-Semitic regimes
that teach hate and violence against Jews, as well denial of the
Holocaust in books, schools, universities, and media, the USHMMs
educational mission becomes all the more urgent: to advance and
disseminate knowledge about this unprecedented tragedy; to preserve
the memory of those who suffered; and to encourage its visitors to
reflect upon the moral and spiritual questions raised by the events
of the Holocaust as well as their own responsibilities as citizens of
a democracy. The resources and specialized reference services
support the public, librarians, family history researchers, school
children, and visiting fellows.
For information: Ellen Zyroff, Co-Chair, Jewish Information
Committee: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] or (858) 694-2484
Ellen Zyroff
Principal Librarian
San Diego County Library
5555 Overland Ave. Bldg. 15
San Diego, CA 92123
(858) 694-2484
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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