Saturday ~ April 25, 2009 ~ 7:00 p.m.
Story Teller ~ Joel Alpert
“Unlocking Family Secrets of the Holocaust”

Joel Alpert’s illustrated lecture was one of the highlights of the Jewish Story Telling Festival. We have invited Joel back for a repeat performance. Joel’s journey is a fascinating chronicle of his research to discover the members of his family lost in the Holocaust. His research culminated in the major discovery of the 500-page Yurburg Memorial Book (Yizkor Buch). Joel’s research is now a permanent part of the “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe,” Berlin, Germany.

Seating is limited.
Arrive early to view the Kindertransport Exhibit prior to the lecture.
This program is free to 2009 JHM Members ~ $5.00 general admission

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An Exhibit of Jewish Wedding
Certificates and Dresses

February 22~ March 22, 2009

Exhibit Hours
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday through Sunday

Ketubot from as early as the 1700’s will be on exhibit. Included are a WWII era Jewish marriage certificate stamped with a swastika, Bettina Donau Steinfeld’s wedding certificate as well as a 1910 Russian wedding certificate and an Italian 1901 ketubah. Twenty-three wedding dresses, antique and contemporary, are also on exhibit. They include a black wedding dress from the late 1800’s, a copy of a wedding dress sewn in 1946 from a German WWII parachute and worn by a bride who had been liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and a wedding bonnet worn in the first synagogue in the United States.

The exhibit include items on loan from: The Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC., The Jewish Museum of New York, The Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, The Historical Society of Georgia, The Jewish Historical Society of North Carolina, The Herman Shapiro Family Archives, Knoxville, Tennessee, The Savannah Jewish Archives, Savannah, Georgia, as well as loans of Ketubahs and other articles from numerous local individuals.

FREE to Museum members.
Admission : $5.00
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The National Exhibit of:
“Kindertransport ~ Saving the Children”

April 12 through May 2, 2009 Daily 1 PM to 4 PM.

In 1938, immediately after the November 9, 1938 Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”) pogrom in the German Reich, the Jews of Britain initiated the unique rescue operation now known as 'Kindertransport'. Within days they obtained the permission of the government and, in the nine months leading up to World War II, with aid from Quaker and other non-Jewish refugee organizations, brought nearly ten thousand unaccompanied children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to safety in Britain. Most of the children, but not all, were Jews. Most of the parents who had sent them to safety perished in the Holocaust. Most of the children settled in Britain; others re-emigrated to Israel, the Americas, and elsewhere, scattering over the world. This exhibit tells their story then and now. Learn more at www.kindertransport.org

The Exhibit is free to Museum Members & all children under 16. $5.00 general admission. Call for group rates.

To schedule a group tour call the Jewish History Museum office at 520-670-9073 Local Kindertransport members will be available to speak with your group.

The Documentary Film The Children Who Cheated The Nazis will be shown at the JHM Sunday April 19, 2009 7:30 p.m. Limited seating is available.