Museum of Jewish Heritage

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Aerial view
Museum of Jewish Heritage, Robert M. Morgenthau- Wing

The 10,400 m² Museum of Jewish Heritage was opened on September 15, 1997 in the "Robert F. Wagner Jr Park" in Manhattan . The shape of the building is based on a Star of David and is said to remind of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust from the outside . The director is the internationally renowned Holocaust researcher David Marwell .

The declared aim of the museum is to educate people of all ages and social classes about the broad spectrum of Jewish life before, during and after the Second World War . The museum contains a theater hall for film screenings, lectures and performances, training rooms, a library, and rooms for temporary exhibitions.

The Garden of Stones, a memorial garden designed by Andy Goldsworthy , consists of 18 hollowed stone blocks. An oak seedling was planted in each recess . The 18 stones stand for “life”, because the Hebrew word for life “chai” corresponds to the gematric value 18.

In contrast to other Holocaust museums, this museum shows the Holocaust from the (subjective) victim's point of view. The approximately 800 personal items and 2000 photographs, which are intended to illustrate the Jewish history of the 20th century, are exhibited in the "Schauplatz für Gedächtnis und Lern".

An exhibition shows 24 documentaries with interviews from the archive of Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation , which is intended to convey the memories of Holocaust survivors. The JewishGen genealogy database is connected to the museum , in which anyone can search for ancestors or relatives.

An Austrian memorial service can be performed in the museum .

In 2005, the museum received a part of a 20 million US dollar aid of the Carnegie Corporation , which through a donation of the mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg was possible.

See also

Web links

Commons : Museum of Jewish Heritage  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Give the victims a name , video archive of the "Survivors of the Shoah - Visual History Foundation," Friday weekly newspaper, February 19, 1999
  2. ↑ City Groups Get Bloomberg Gift of $ 20 million , New York Times , July 6, 2005
  3. ^ Announcement from Carnegie Corporation of New York ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2007 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 5, 2005 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / carnegie.org

Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 22.4 ″  N , 74 ° 1 ′ 7.5 ″  W.