THE  SISTERHOOD

Sisterhood Trip to the Museum of Jewish Heritage Karen Brand

After a few months procrastination, I’ve decided (with a bit of coercion from the editor) to share my experience…and wax philosophical. 

On a soggy Sunday in March, two carloads of women drove into the city to The Museum of Jewish Heritage-A living Memorial to the Holocaust located in Battery Park. The core exhibition is compromised of “three sections containing personal objects, photographs and short films that illustrate 20^th century Jewish life.  Created as a living memorial to the Holocaust, it honors those who died by celebrating their lives.” 

As the child of a World War II Veteran, US  Army Air Staff Sergeant Harold H. Rubin,  I especially enjoyed the temporary exhibit, “Ours to Fight For- American Jews in The Second World War”  which explored the role of Jewish men and women who were part of the American War effort in Europe, The Pacific and at home.   Stories of the veterans were told through video testimony, artifacts, personal quotes, letters and photographs. 

The day culminated in a lecture by Professor Deborah Lipstadt, author of Denying the Holocaust, who graphically described her six -year legal battle with Holocaust denier David Irving, who sued her for libel in Britain.