The New England Holocaust Museum

12/23/2013

On this day 71 years ago -- December 22, 1942 -- Congress got the United States out of what had turned into an embarrassing situation, Bob Greene writes.

12/17/2013

My Collection has been ranked as the 5th Largest by USHMM in DC

NORTH ADAMS -- If you blink, you could miss the New England Holocaust Institute and Museum. A small white sign with blue lettering, hanging in the window of 45 Eagle St., is the only marker indicating its location, but the 650-square-foot museum is garnering national and even international attention...

12/13/2013

WORK SETS YOU FREE. At the entrance to Dachau today, scene of the climax to my book THE LIBERATOR. I still feel very very sad and have struggled not to cry all day - at the memory of great men, working class Americans, who I knew so well and who have gone and who gave so very very much to free 32,000 people from this place of overwhelming evil.

12/04/2013

Harry Ettlinger and his colleagues in the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives program served as the inspiration for the upcoming World War II film, "The Monuments Men."

12/03/2013

We've got the real story of Maria von Trapp in the National Archives at Boston.

When the von Trapp family fled the N**i regime in Austria, they traveled to America. Eventually, the entire family--except for the husband, Georg---became American citizens.

In the early 1940s the family settled in Stowe, Vermont, where they bought a farm. They ran a music camp on the property when they were not on tour. In 1944, Maria and her stepdaughters Johanna, Martina, Maria, Hedwig, and Agathe applied for U.S. citizenship by filing declarations of intention at the U.S. District Court in Burlington, Vermont.

Maria's husband Georg apparently never filed to become a citizen. Rupert and Werner were naturalized while serving in the U.S. armed forces during World War II, and Rosmarie and Eleonore derived citizenship from their mother. Johannes was born in the United States and was a citizen in his own right.

If you are planning on watching the new version of the Sound of Music this week, make sure you brush up on all your von Trapp trivia here: http://go.usa.gov/WFbh

Image: Maria von Trapp's Declaration of Intention, dated January 21, 1944. (Records of District Courts of the United States, RG 21)

12/01/2013

After today we will be closed for the next few weeks and only open by Appointment...413-664-9103h 413-522-0070 c

11/27/2013

Jennifer Huberdeau created this quick Tout video.

11/27/2013

Jennifer Huberdeau created this quick Tout video.

11/27/2013

Jennifer Huberdeau created this quick Tout video.

11/25/2013

When Rhonda Fink-Whitman decided to test college students' knowledge of the Holocaust, lugging a video camera to four local campuses, she discovered some amazing facts:

11/24/2013

:"Recently uncovered footage long buried in East German archives confirms that televisions first revolution occurred under the Third Reich. From 1935 to 1944...

11/23/2013

EAGER FOR DUTY. About to talk about these men from 157TH INF. REGIMENT at the WWII Museum annual conference in NEW ORLEANS.