PHOTOS: Faith and the Holocaust Exhibition Featured at 2016 Agudath Israel Convention

img_4528The Amud Aish Memorial Museum (Amud Aish) and its education division, the Kleinman Holocaust Education Center, presented at the Agudah Convention the acclaimed travelling exhibition: Faith and the Holocaust.

Through chronology and perspective, the exhibition maps the experiences of observant Jews during the Holocaust. The museum’s curatorial and research team have assembled rarely seen artifacts from their archival collections to illustrate the rich religious lives observant Jews were able to maintain even when faced with the horrors of the Holocaust. These artifacts include tefillin smuggled into a concentration camp, the unfinished diary of Rabbi Yitzchok Wolgelernter, and a chuppah that was used to marry survivors in Displaced Persons camps.

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img_4536-14536 – L-R Rabbi Sholom Friedmann, Reb Yechiel Benzion Fishoff, and Rabbi Pinchus Goldberg gather at the Amud Aish Memorial Museum (Amud Aish) and Kleinman Holocaust Education Center exhibition at the annual Agudath Israel Convention. The exhibition, “Faith and the Holocaust,” maps the experience of observant Jews during the Holocaust.

img_45714571 – Rabbi Shmuel Yaakov Klein looks at a Nazi receipt book that Bais Yaakov teacher Sara Abraham (Seidman) converted into a Bais Yaakov lesson book in Fohrenwald DP camp. The artifact is part of the exhibition “Faith and the Holocaust” which maps the experience of observant Jews during the Holocaust. The Amud Aish Memorial Museum (Amud Aish) and Kleinman Holocaust Education Center brought the exhibition to the annual Agudath Israel Convention (Nov. 17-20 in Stamford, Conn.).

img_45744528 – An Agudath Israel Convention guest stops by the Amud Aish Memorial Museum (Amud Aish) and Kleinman Holocaust Education Center exhibition, “Faith and the Holocaust” which maps the experience of observant Jews during the Holocaust. This case contains tzitzis found by a survivor returning to the ghetto where he had lived as well as the Avigdor Tefillin.

img_45454545 – Rabbi Sholom Friedmann (left), Executive Director of the Amud Aish Memorial Museum (Amud Aish) and Kleinman Holocaust Education Center stands with Reb Yechiel Benzion Fishoff (right) in front of a poster depicting the progress on the permanent Amud Aish building in Boro Park (scheduled to open in 2017). The museum brought the exhibition “Faith and the Holocaust” to the annual Agudath Israel Convention in Stamford, Conn. (Nov. 17-20).

img_18441844 – Agudath Israel Convention guests stop by the Amud Aish Memorial Museum (Amud Aish) and Kleinman Holocaust Education Center exhibition, “Faith and the Holocaust” which maps the experience of observant Jews during the Holocaust. This display shows the contents of a girl’s small valise: a challah cover and postcards that she brought with her into the Budapest ghetto. Most of her family perished, but the girl survived and eventually immigrated to America.

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