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Leo Ullman survived the Holocaust in hiding with strangers as a toddler—in Amsterdam, the same city where Anne Frank and her family hid and were later discovered. His parents, who also went into hiding in a separate location, were told nothing about his caretakers or his location in order to help keep him safe. Only after the war did Leo realize that the loving couple who had raised him for years were not his biological parents. He later learned just how many of the Dutch families nearby knew about the young Jewish boy in hiding and chose to protect him. Ullman later served in the U.S. Marine Corps, practiced law, and chaired the Anne Frank Center USA. Ullman will share his memories, in conversation with Kyra Schuster, Lead Acquisitions Curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. ? Tickets to Anne Frank The Exhibition are available after the program ? CJH members get 40% off! Learn more and register today! https://lnkd.in/gSKSmAZu Part of the Center’s programming series Anne Frank in History and Memory in connection with Anne Frank The Exhibition. Thank you to Ancestry, the Center for Jewish History’s Family History sponsor. #AnneFrank #AnneFrankTheExhibition #JewishHistory #NeverForget Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin

While in hiding, Margot Frank continued to learn, even under impossible circumstances. Using the name of their helper Bep Voskuijl, Margot took a correspondence course in elementary Latin, completing assignments from the Annex. One of her coursework pages is now on display at Anne Frank The Exhibition, offering a rare glimpse into Margot’s life beyond what Anne wrote about her in the diary. Visit us to see this incredible artifact and discover more about the Frank family’s time in hiding. ??: John Halpern #AnneFrankTheExhibition #MargotFrank #AnneFrank #HolocaustEducation

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research celebrates its 100th anniversary this year! Here are 7 Jewish historical treasures from YIVO’s vast collection inside the Center for Jewish History. https://lnkd.in/gdEMdNWJ #Collections #Archives #Treasures #Anniversary

Thank you, Melissa Gilbert for visiting Anne Frank The Exhibition at the Center for Jewish History. Melissa portrayed Anne Frank in the 1980 NBC film The Diary of Anne Frank, bringing Anne’s words and spirit to life for audiences across America. Decades later, her visit to the exhibition is a powerful reminder of Anne’s enduring impact. Thank you for joining us in honoring Anne’s story. #AnneFrankTheExhibition #HolocaustEducation #NeverForget #AnneFrank

Join us for a screening of the classic film,?Gentleman’s Agreement. Philip Green (Gregory Peck) is a highly respected writer who is recruited by a national magazine to write a series of articles on antisemitism in America. He's not enthusiastic about the series, mostly because he's not sure how to tackle the subject. Then it dawns on him: if he was to pretend that he was Jewish, he could then experience the degree of racism and prejudice that exists and write his story from that perspective. It takes little time for him to experience bigotry. His anger at the way he is treated also affects his relationship with Kathy Lacy (Dorothy McGuire), his publisher's niece and the person who suggested the series. A conversation with?Rachel Gordan, Avinoam Patt, Gregory Peck’s daughter,?Cecilia Peck, and CJH President?Gavriel Rosenfeld?will follow the screening. Part of the Center’s programming series?Anne Frank in History and Memory?in connection with?Anne Frank The Exhibition. Save your spot! https://lnkd.in/ew23tbEJ Thank you to Ancestry, the Center for Jewish History’s Family History sponsor. #GentlemansAgreement #Film #Movie #History

Yesterday, the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) and the American Printing House for the Blind unveiled a 90-year-old audio recording of Helen Keller at the Center for Jewish History. AFB occupied the Center’s building until 1997, and Helen Keller worked at this location for decades. At the event, AFB presented Dr. Gavriel Rosenfeld with a framed copy of a letter from their archives that Helen sent in 1933 to Adolf Hitler and the student body in Germany in opposition to the Nazi book burnings. To listen to the recording visit Echoes from the Past: Helen Keller and the Time Capsule Recordings https://lnkd.in/g2MwY9nB Photo credit: Aubrey Green of AFB.

Leo Ullman survived the Holocaust in hiding with strangers as a toddler—in Amsterdam, the same city where Anne Frank and her family hid and were later discovered. His parents, who also went into hiding in a separate location, were told nothing about his caretakers or his location in order to help keep him safe. Only after the war did Leo realize that the loving couple who had raised him for years were not his biological parents. He later learned just how many of the Dutch families nearby knew about the young Jewish boy in hiding and chose to protect him. Ullman later served in the U.S. Marine Corps, practiced law, and chaired the Anne Frank Center USA. Ullman will share his memories, in conversation with Kyra Schuster, Lead Acquisitions Curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. ? Tickets to Anne Frank The Exhibition are available after the program ? CJH members get 40% off! Learn more and register today! https://lnkd.in/gSKSmAZu Part of the Center’s programming series Anne Frank in History and Memory in connection with Anne Frank The Exhibition. Thank you to Ancestry, the Center for Jewish History’s Family History sponsor. #AnneFrank #AnneFrankTheExhibition #JewishHistory #NeverForget Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin

Anne Frank The Exhibition has been extended through October 31st! More time to visit. More time to remember. More time to learn. Tickets are available at?AnneFrankExhibit.org. #AnneFrankTheExhibition?#NYC?#MustSeeNYC?#HolocaustEducation?#NeverForget

Join us at 3 pm ET today for a special live-streamed event as we unveil a never-before-heard recording of Helen Keller! The Dot Experience of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), a longtime collaborator of AFB and steward of the AFB and Helen Keller Archives, has meticulously preserved two rare disc recordings discovered in the AFB time capsule. These recordings feature a powerful speech by Helen Keller and a unique glimpse into life in New York City in 1934. Celebrate Helen Keller’s enduring legacy as one of the world’s great women leaders whose impact continues to inspire generations on our event livestream: https://lnkd.in/eS7XdZVC.

Discoveries that change lives. Ken Deane always knew his great-uncle Benjamin Herzog had been murdered in the Holocaust, but the story was lost — until he took a genealogy class at our Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute. There, he discovered Sylvia Green — a relative he never knew existed. Weeks later, she called. For the first time, their families were connected. Help uncover more stories. Become a member today. https://bit.ly/3FBbqYz Thank you to Ancestry the Center for Jewish History’s Family History sponsor. #Family #Genealogy #Discovery #Stories #Connections