Preserving Holocaust History through Artifacts, Archives and Research

Live Digital Program and Special Opportunity

Monday, July 20, 2020 at 2:00pm EST

Presented by the United States Holocaust Memorail Museum

Register for this Live Stream event here

Please join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for a live digital program, exclusive to the Baltimore community, featuring the Museum’s National Institute for Holocaust Documentation and its work to collect, preserve, and make accessible to the public this vast collection of record of the Holocaust and support the Museum’s wide-ranging efforts in the areas of research, exhibition, publication, education, and commemoration.

Join us to learn about the Museum’s acquisitions efforts and the meticulous research process made available for Holocaust survivors and their family members.

Speakers

Diane Afoumado, Acting Director, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center, US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Judy Cohen, Chief Acquisitions Curator, Curatorial Acquisitions and Reference, US Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Additional Opportunity from USHMM:

Tuesday, July 21 – Friday, July 24, 2020

The Museum provides services for survivors and relatives who are hoping to learn more about the fate of their family members, or who have personal items (photos, letter, diaries, and many other items) that represent their family’s experiences. As a special opportunity, the Museum will be offering one-on-one virtual consultations with experts representing two divisions of the Museum: Holocaust Survivor and Victims Resource Center and Collection Acquisitions.

Preliminary meetings will be limited to 30 minutes and are by appointment only. Please sign up HERE if you are interested.

Consultations with Curator – The Museum actively collects, catalogs and preserves documents, photographs, and other artifacts from the Holocaust period from survivors, liberators, rescuers and their descendants. On average we receive more than one new collection every day, ranging from a small group of photographs to many boxes of materials, and each new collection not only adds to our understanding of the Holocaust but also helps document and memorialize the experiences of the donor. Our staff are anxious to meet with anyone who has such material to learn more about their family’s history and begin a conversation about how their artifacts can be preserved in the Museum’s collection.

Holocaust Survivor and Victims Resource Center – Each year, the Museum’s Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center receives thousands of requests from survivors and their family members hoping to find some information about loved ones who suffered or were killed during the Holocaust. Through a meticulous research process, our highly trained staff review hundreds of collections and millions of pages of material to search for information relevant to the given family. Some searches return few results, but often we are able to provide families with new documents, photographs and other information on the lives and fates of their loved ones.

For questions, please contact Rebecca Ellison in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Office at rellison@ushmm.org.