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The WHSAD community has been privileged over these last three years to work with Project Witness, “a nonprofit Holocaust resource center” whose mission “merges judicious scholarship with cutting-edge media to provide thought-provoking Holocaust educational resources for schools, community centers, and lay readers.”  For two years, students listened to the insights [...]

On Thursday, December 2, 2021, the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and Battery Park City Authority held a special ceremony to dedicate “The Children’s Tree”, the descendant of one planted by Jewish children inside the Theresienstadt (Terezín) concentration camp. The tree’s remarkable history is [...]

by Deselle Thompson I think Ruth Gruener was a woman who truly understood love. Every word she spoke was somehow always laced with it. I can’t say I knew too much about her outside of her survivor story. The only time I saw her was through brief interviews through Project [...]

NEW YORK - The first-ever Holocaust exhibit in a Middle Eastern country that is not Israel has opened in the Crossroads of Civilizations Museum in Dubai. The “We Remember” exhibition, which opened to the public last month, features video testimony of Holocaust survivors, an abridged history of the events leading up [...]

Launched by the Claims Conference, This Survivor-Led Digital Campaign Provides Context To The Moments Before The Holocaust NEW YORK, N.Y.: April 8, 2021— Today, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) announces a new Holocaust survivor-led, digital campaign, #ItStartedWithWords. Before local anti-Jewish laws were enacted, before neighborhood [...]

Project Witness Today: January 2021 Click to download (PDF)