Holocauste

2005 · 85458 — Washington DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2005. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 8.5 inches. 4 iv 80 pages. Illustrations. Cover has minor wear sticker residue and soiling. Letter from the Director Sara J. Bloomfield. Introduction by Margaret Peterson. Sections by Erika Eckstut Frank Ephraim Manya Friedman Fritz Glucksetin Nesse Godin Pete Philipps Charlene Schiff Flora Singer Esther Starobin and Rabbi Joseph Weiner. Illustrations. Some of the contents are identified as works of fiction--the others are nonfiction. This is one of the publications that marked the 10th anniversary of the Holocaust Museum which was dedicated in 1993. The Museum offers its survivor volunteers the Memory Project writing workshop as a means of recounting their experiences whether in biographical accounts or in fictional form. These workshops have met the needs of many survivors who wanted to tell their story but who had not previously had the right place or time to do so. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum USHMM is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington D.C. the USHMM provides for the documentation study and interpretation of Holocaust history. It is dedicated to helping leaders and citizens of the world confront hatred prevent genocide promote human dignity and strengthen democracy. Since its dedication on April 22 1993 the museum has had nearly 40 million visitors including more than 10 million school children 99 heads of state and more than 3500 foreign officials from over 211 countries and territories. The museum's visitors came from all over the world and less than 10 percent of the museum's visitors are Jewish. Its website had 25 million visits in 2008 from an average of 100 countries daily. Thirty-five percent of these visits were from outside the United States. The USHMM's collections contain more than 12750 artifacts 49 million pages of archival documents 85000 historical photographs a list of over 200000 registered survivors and their families 1000 hours of archival footage 93000 library items and 9000 oral history testimonies. It also has teacher fellows in every state in the United States and since 1994 almost 400 university fellows from 26 countries. Researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have documented 42500 ghettos and concentration camps created by the Nazis throughout German-controlled areas of Europe from 1933 to 1945. Though the museum is located geographically in the same cluster as the Smithsonian museums the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is an independent entity with its own governance structure. However the museum and the Smithsonian regularly participate in joint projects. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum paperback