Amud Aish Memorial Museum and Kleinman Holocaust Education Center

03/26/2020

New York rabbi, Holocaust survivor, dies at 91 from coronavirus

https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-rabbi-holocaust-survivor-dies-coronavirus

A Holocaust survivor and New York rabbi who helped dozens of families escape the Nazis has died of COVID-19, according to a local lawmaker.

03/25/2020

Memoir - L2014.005.001

Are you keeping a record or a diary of these times? Keeping a written account of extraordinary times is a way to stay mindful. Berish Erlich kept a diary in the Displaced Persons Camp after WWII in three languages. Now at the Auschwitz exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, he also used the diary to teach himself English.

Object Name Memoir Catalog Number L2014.005.001 Creator Berish Erlich Scope & Content Single, bound memoir or diary. Cover has typewritten sticker on black hardcover binding, "My Dairy [sic] by Bernard Erlich 9/11/39 to 4/11/45/Warsaw Getto [sic] and various Nazi Concentration Camps." Diary is handw...

03/18/2020

Past Pandemics Spurred Violent Antisemitism. Prepare For More.

Many of us already know this in our bones.

A worshipper walks in front of the Dome of the Rock in the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary …

11/21/2019

Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Dr. Avrum Bichler

This week we share the Oral History of Dr. Avrum Bichler who was born in Poland in 1933. He escaped with his family to Russia, where they were forced to work as slave laborers near the Arctic Circle, in Siberia, and in Kazakhstan.

After the war ended the Bichler family attempted to return to their home in Poland, only to learn of the horrors they had left behind. Avrum eventually made his way to America where he attended Yeshiva University and received assistance from the JDC.

Avrum ends by telling us to never give up hope and to draw strength from one’s past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYqfLa8I-qU&t=3793s

Dr. Avrum (Abraham) Bichler was born on February 23, 1933 to a well-to-do Jewish family in Krylow, Poland. Avrum grew up going to Hebrew school, as well as s...

09/26/2019

‘Tell Them We Blew The Shofar At Auschwitz,’ He Said. 75 Years Later, She Did.

"The shofar was an emblem of her father’s “spiritual resistance. He always looked forward, never backward"

https://forward.com/culture/432164/shofar-auschwitz-museum-of-jewish-heritage-rosh-hashana-new-york/

Don't miss this shofar blown in Auschwitz, currently on display
Auschwitz Exhibition at Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust during this Yamim Noraim season.

May the countless stories of resilience and faith even in the darkest of times continue to strengthen us all as we head into the new year.

K'siva v'chasima tova from all of us at Amud Aish!

“I’m going to die on this march. If you live, take this shofar. Tell them we blew the shofar at Auschwitz.”

09/12/2019

Amud Aish Holocaust Survivor Oral History Collection - YouTube

Did you know that Amud Aish Memorial Museum and Kleinman Holocaust Education Center has partnered with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to record almost 50 Orthodox Jewish Holocaust Survivors oral history testimonies?

We're in the process of uploading them onto our YouTube channel, check it out!

Which one did you find most meaningful? Do you know a Holocaust survivor that has not yet recorded their experiences during the Holocaust? Please reach out to us to set up an opportunity to do so.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6KZJTny6NKj4lotVAgdxdSSloL9173ne

07/26/2019

Earlier this month, Amud Aish's Through the Lens of Faith, opened at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum.

Through the Lens of Faith focuses on 21 Holocaust survivors and how their relationship with faith and G-d evolved during and after their internment at the concentration camp.

The Opening Ceremony includes Elly Kleinmann, Daniel Libeskind, Caryl Englander, Dr. Henri Lustiger-Thaler, Avshalom Weinstein, and others. The exhibit will be on display through 2020.

For more information, check out http://tlofauschwitz.org/.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtyYfVdx28Y

07/12/2019

Architect Daniel Libeskind and Amud Aish Memorial Museum create photographic installation at entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Architect Daniel Libeskind and Amud Aish Memorial Museum create photographic installation at entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

The exhibition is composed of 21 color portraits taken by Caryl Englander of Jewish, Polish, Roman Catholic and Sinti survivors of the camp.

07/02/2019

Amud Aish Memorial Museum

Have you checked out our latest videos?

We've been sharing videos discussing artifacts in our collection, clips from events, and Holocaust survivors sharing their stories on our Vimeo channel!

Which video do you find most meaningful?
https://vimeo.com/amudaish

Amud Aish’s mission is to present the victim experience, with special emphasis on the perspectives of observant Jewish communities. It is the only Holocaust…

06/26/2019

Daniel Libeskind z Amud Aish Memorial Museum przedstawia instalację "Przez pryzmat wiary"

Daniel Libeskind z Amud Aish Memorial Museum przedstawia instalację "Przez pryzmat wiary"

Daniel Libeskind, fotografka Caryl Englander oraz Henri Lustiger Thaler z Amud Aish Memorial Museum przedstawiają wystawę czasową "Through the Lens of Faith– Przez pryzmat wiary". Wystawa zostanie otwarta w Państwowym Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau 1 lipca z okazji 75. rocznicy wyzwolenia obozu w 1...

06/20/2019

Nachum Highlights Amud Aish and their Exhibit in Auschwitz, "Through the Lens of Faith-Auschwitz" - NSN

Thank you Nachum Segal for talking about Amud Aish Memorial Museum and Kleinman Holocaust Education Center and our upcoming "Through the Lens of Faith" exhibit and trip to Auschwitz Memorial / Muzeum Auschwitz on the show today!

http://www.nachumsegal.com/nachum-highlights-amud-aish-and-their-exhibit-in-auschwitz-through-the-lens-of-faith-auschwitz/

Nachum Segal and Elly Kleinman of the Amud Aish Memorial Museum on the museum, their upcoming trip to Poland and their exhibit opening in Auschwitz titled “Through the Lens of Faith – Auschwitz.”

06/05/2019

Auschwitz Exhibition

We're honored to have three of our most powerful artifacts featured in Auschwitz Exhibition's exhibit at Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

Have you been to see the new exhibit yet?

During the Holocaust, millions of Jews faced struggles in the context of their faith-based practices and beliefs.

Learn more about how these struggles show us a different way to frame and understand the persistence of Jewish resilience in Auschwitz, trough our website's new article: "Resilience and Hope in Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not far Away".

A moving article by Amud Aish Memorial Museum and Kleinman Holocaust Education Center, one of the loaning institutions that have lent part of their personal collections to be shown during the stay of the exhibition in New York City.

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https://bit.ly/2HJ2TST

05/14/2019

Have you seen the new Brooklyn Public Library's “Jewish Refugees in Shanghai" exhibition, films and other programs running now through the end of May?

Amud Aish Memorial Museum and Kleinman Holocaust Education Center is proud to have photographs from our current exhibit on this topic featured at @BrooklynPublicLibrary

See the article in @NewYorkTimes in which our Director, Rabbi Sholom Friedmann says: "The Jews managed to set up shop and become a community there displaying strength, courage and resilience."

Check out the article for more!
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/nyregion/jewish-refugees-shanghai.html?fbclid=IwAR2XPJ08MXddQPcx2quS2cmkCNdoEYSntwfZd_lBy1sBcEo2vKHzCvHu6TY

04/17/2019

Elad Nehorai on Twitter

Check out this powerful prayer that was shared by Elad Nehorai. The heartbreaking choices that Jews made and the constant grappling with faith even in the worst of times is always so moving to think about.

Chaskel Bennet shared:

"I have a copy of this prayer & read it aloud to my children right before we sing Vhi Sheomda. We talk about the pain, the perseverance, the hopes & aspirations of our history. We talk about our grandparents heroic survival & the obligation to pay their legacy forward.This is us."

May we all merit to never have to make such choices again and usher in the coming of Moshiach, soon in our days.

https://twitter.com/PopChassid/status/1117886038217842688

“Amazing. A prayer by and for Jews in concentration camps to be said before eating bread on Passover (to explain to God why they were eating leavened bread instead of matzah). This copy was found in Bergen Belsen. ht /r/Judaism”