WCHC EDUCATION AND ACTION GALLERY

VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

THE HOLOCAUST

This virtual exhibition has been written and curated by Professor Laura Morowitz and Professor Lori Weintrob, Wagner College. Panels designed by Mr. Anthony Freitas. For permission to use their materials we thank the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Archives, College Park, Maryland.For more on the Wagner College Holocaust Center visit: https://wagner.edu/holocaust-center/

Members of the Jewish resistance--both male and female fighters--are captured by SS troops on Nowolipie Street during the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. April 19 - May 16 1943. Collection USMHH

SITES OF THE HOLOCAUST IN EUROPE

ESTIMATED MINIMUM JEWISH LOSSES 1945

Map: 1939 International boundaries. Source: Encyclopedia of the Holocaust; editor in chief, Israel Gutman.

A Jewish Family in Salonika, Greece, 1930s Rene and Tillie Molho USMM

Shepske Sonenson riding his Hebrew teacher on a motorcycle through one of the shtetls of Poland, 1930s

https://www.facinghistory.org/about-usCredit: USHMM

Siegbert Levy’s Bar Mitzvah at the Zerrenerstrasse synagogue

Pforzheim, Germany, 1936

USHMM courtesy of Stadtarchiv Pforzheim

1936 Maccabee Jewish Football Team, Lithuania 1936

Yad Vashem Photo Archive

Three Jewish Dutch couples celebrating Purim in Holland in 1934

Pictured are Ammy and Nico Herschel (left), Ammy's sister Bilha and her husband, Aaron Davidon (center), and unidentified friends. Aaron Davidson perished during the war.

USMHH, courtesy of Tswi Herschel

Autobiography of a fifth grader, Bebe Epshtein, from pre-war Vilna

Two German Jewish WWI soldiers

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Werner Mendel

The Bonn Platz synagogue, Hamburg, 1906. Set on fire during Kristallnacht

Group portrait of the members of Simone Weil's troop of the Eclaireurs Israelites de France (Jewish Scouts of France). The name of her section was Eretz Yisrael (The Land of Israel). 1938

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Simone Weil Lipman

Rose, Julius and Louis Morowitz, Chmielnik, Poland, c. 1915. Julius, the boy in the center, is the grandfather of Professor Laura Morowitz.