Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust The Museum is also home to National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.

The mission of the Museum is to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the broad tapestry of Jewish life in the 20th and 21st centuries—before, during, and after the Holocaust. Multiple perspectives on modern Jewish history, life, and culture are presented in the Museum’s unique Core Exhibition and award-winning special exhibitions. Acclaimed public programs, including discussions, films, plays, and concerts, highlight the richness of Jewish culture and ideas.

Join us this Sunday, June 7th for the closing night of the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival! At 4 PM we will be s...
06/03/2026

Join us this Sunday, June 7th for the closing night of the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival! At 4 PM we will be screening “The Splendours and Miseries of the Camondo Family,” which traces the saga of this Camondo family, which began at the beginning of the 19th century on the banks of the Bosphorus and ended brutally at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Then, at 6:30 PM, see “Funeral on Hold,” which explores the dilemma of a man’s son and childhood friend in Northern Morocco, who are torn between burying their dead father/friend in a Jewish or Muslim cemetery.

Learn more and register for tickets at: mjhnyc.org/nysjff

Over the course of June 1943, the Lvov Ghetto was liquidated, and its Jewish prisoners were sent to extermination and la...
06/02/2026

Over the course of June 1943, the Lvov Ghetto was liquidated, and its Jewish prisoners were sent to extermination and labor camps. Though the members of its underground resistance found early success fighting off the N***s, the ghetto was ultimately burned to the ground and its residents were deported.

Bronek Frey, a prisoner of the Lvov Ghetto who tragically perished during the Holocaust, captured the brutality of ghetto life in his diary. In an excerpt from his writings from September 15, 1942, we see the terror he faced:

“I write these lines with blood and tears. It is the… described experience of a Jew of the last 14 months, who, in relation to others, has suffered the least… There is not a single moment during the day or at night when we should not be thinking that these are the last hours of our lives. We are powerless in this situation, we are only suffering because we are Jewish.”

Bronek’s letter is on view in our core exhibition, “The Holocaust: What Hate Can Do.” Learn more about this exhibition at: mjhnyc.org/whathatecando

Credit: Diary of Bronek Frey, Lvov, Poland, 1942. Gift of Edith Milman and Ada Urbach, 2007.A.316

Celebrate Pride with the Museum! Explore q***r Jewish joy through romance books, hear stories of q***r Jews from the Hol...
06/01/2026

Celebrate Pride with the Museum! Explore q***r Jewish joy through romance books, hear stories of q***r Jews from the Holocaust to the present and join Keshet for a workshop on building LGBTQ+ equality and belonging. Learn more and register at: mjhnyc.org/pride

05/31/2026

Abraham Lincoln Goldberg. Grover Cleveland Rosenthal. George Washington Cohen. What's behind these interesting pairings of names?

From the time of the American Revolution, it was actually a trend for Jewish parents, many recent immigrants, to give their children names that honored American history, as a way of declaring their American identity.

This Jewish American Heritage Month, explore your own family tree during our Mishpachpah Festival on May 31, and at the Kalikow Jewish Genealogical Research Center on the first floor of the Museum. Learn more at: mjhnyc.org/kalkow

This week, join The Museum for these upcoming programs and events:🗽 Mishpachah Festival - Sunday, May 31 | 11 AM ET🎥 Ne...
05/30/2026

This week, join The Museum for these upcoming programs and events:
🗽 Mishpachah Festival - Sunday, May 31 | 11 AM ET
🎥 New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival - Sunday, May 31 – Sunday, June 7
📚 “The Wanderers” Book Talk - Wednesday, June 3 | 7 PM ET
🏳️‍🌈 Pride at MJH - Sunday, June 7 | 11:30 AM ET

Learn more and register at: mjhnyc.org/events

05/29/2026

What can objects tell us about a person's life? This 1938 green card belonged to Amalie Freund, who immigrated to America at 18 to escape N**i persecution. Immigration documents may seem cut and dry, but they represent enormous effort, hope, and sometimes tragedy. Join us as we explore Amalie's papers and objects, which she donated to the Museum's collection, and what they reveal about the life behind them.

We announced our Fall 2026 lineup this week! The Museum will present an historic season, with something for everyone. Th...
05/28/2026

We announced our Fall 2026 lineup this week! The Museum will present an historic season, with something for everyone. The season opens on September 18 with “Will These Words Reach You? The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto,” an exhibition that examines the creation of the Oyneg Shabes Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto. On October 25, you won't want to miss “A Statue for Liberty: Inventing an Icon,” a virtual reality experience celebrating the 250th anniversary of American independence and the 140th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. Attn: Book lovers, you'll want to mark your calendars now for November 15th, when we'll present the fifth annual New York Jewish Book Festival.

We're excited to welcome you to the museum this fall! Learn more from the press release at: https://mjhnyc.org/press/museum-of-jewish-heritage-a-living-memorial-to-the-holocaust-in-new-york-to-present-virtual-reality-experience-international-exhibitions-new-york-jewish-book-festival-and-more-this-fall/

Credit: Second photo, Yad Vashem

Exciting announcement! The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust announced today the appointmen...
05/27/2026

Exciting announcement! The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust announced today the appointment of civic leader and former federal prosecutor, Tali Farhadian, as its next Chief Executive Officer. Her tenure will begin on September 8, 2026. She succeeds Jack Kliger, President and CEO, who has led the institution since 2019.

Farhadian’s appointment expands on a renewed commitment by the museum to increase the scope of its role within the civic, creative, and cultural life of New York City and evolve to meet the needs of a new era. The Museum will soon announce revitalized programming to reflect the story and richness of the Jewish people and celebrate modern Jewish life.

Read more in the press release at: https://mjhnyc.org/press/releases/museum-appoints-civic-leader-and-former-federal-prosecutor-tali-farhadian-as-next-ceo/

As graduation season is upon us, Flora Hogman, a member of the Museum’s Speakers Bureau, shared with us what earning her...
05/27/2026

As graduation season is upon us, Flora Hogman, a member of the Museum’s Speakers Bureau, shared with us what earning her PhD from NYU meant to her…

“This sense of strength but also of knowledge gotten from my studies, well, my PhD, brought me to the idea and the accomplishment of interviewing WWII survivors, writing about their struggles and adult resilience. (Of course, it brought me as well to tell my own story successfully, as well.)”

Congratulations to everyone graduating this year!

05/26/2026

On this day in 1924, the Johnson-Reed Act was passed, forever changing the landscape of immigration to the United States. Caitlin, the Chief Genealogist at the Kalikow Jewish Genealogy Research Center, discusses how the Act’s strict nationality-based quotas were specifically designed to limit immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe, impacting many people’s ability to immigrate to the US.

Learn more about the Johnson-Reed Act in a past program discussing its legacy, and how it devastated Jewish refugees’ abilities to escape N**i Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNpRiXahyu4&list=PL9NM7b8l78bVHso0twxgzzHNz722CLEtO&index=6

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