Americans and the Holocaust Exhibit
I’ve barely been out of my house this week, partly because I felt rather sniffly for a couple of days, but mostly because I have been on a minor decluttering binge, primarily involving shredding a bunch of old credit card receipts, some dating back as far as, um, 2016. I’m still working on that project, though I also need to do some serious cleaning off of my dining room table, which tends to act as a staging ground for things I should do something about.
Also, I’ve been busy with trying to watch as many of the on-demand presentations from the IAJGS (Jewish Genealogy) conference from August. I have only a couple of days left to watch them. I’ll write details about that when that is over.
The one thing I did go out for was a field trip by the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington to go to the special exhibit on Americans and the Holocaust at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. This was related to the recent Ken Burns series (which I have not yet watched) and was worth a couple of hours. I don’t think that there was a lot that I didn’t know about, but it brought some things into focus for me. In particular, they showed information about various public opinion polls, some specific to what Americans should do about Jewish refugees, some about immigration in general, and I found the overwhelming numbers of Americans opposed to helping anyone brutal and frightening. (And, of course, we see the same thing now.) I was interested to learn more about Peter Bergson (aka Hllel Kook), whose name I was only vaguely familiar with and who shares an exhibit section with Jan Karski, who I do know a fair amount about thanks to David Strathiirn’s portrayal of him. Anyway, it’s an interesting exhibit and was worth the time.
Also, I’ve been busy with trying to watch as many of the on-demand presentations from the IAJGS (Jewish Genealogy) conference from August. I have only a couple of days left to watch them. I’ll write details about that when that is over.
The one thing I did go out for was a field trip by the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington to go to the special exhibit on Americans and the Holocaust at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. This was related to the recent Ken Burns series (which I have not yet watched) and was worth a couple of hours. I don’t think that there was a lot that I didn’t know about, but it brought some things into focus for me. In particular, they showed information about various public opinion polls, some specific to what Americans should do about Jewish refugees, some about immigration in general, and I found the overwhelming numbers of Americans opposed to helping anyone brutal and frightening. (And, of course, we see the same thing now.) I was interested to learn more about Peter Bergson (aka Hllel Kook), whose name I was only vaguely familiar with and who shares an exhibit section with Jan Karski, who I do know a fair amount about thanks to David Strathiirn’s portrayal of him. Anyway, it’s an interesting exhibit and was worth the time.