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Exhibits
Witness
to War, 1941-1945: The Soviet Jewish Experience
The
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford has created
a traveling exhibit based upon the videotaped testimonies
of Jewish World War II survivors from the former Soviet Union
now living in the Greater Hartford area. These personal histories,
which have been recorded for the first time, illustrate a
wide range of survival strategies. The exhibition includes
photographs, historical maps, artifacts and a video loop.
This
exhibition design consists of eleven 4x8-foot panels, all
with photographs and text from our oral history testimonies.
While the introductory panels are devoted to a brief history
of Jews in the Soviet Union and an overview of World War
II, the remainder focus on specific Jews (who now live in
Connecticut) as members of the armed services; as military
medical personnel; as partisans in the Jewish resistance;
as survivors of ghettos, camps and/or hiding; as refugees
and evacuees in remote parts of the USSR. The final double
set of panels has contemporary portraits paired with the
old photographs and brief statements of what happened to
each individual after the war. For those venues with enough
space to accommodate a TV/VCR, we have a 12-minute video
loop of selected testimonies. Two sections of the VCR booth
showcase poems in Russian and English by one of the witnesses.
A third section focuses on a remarkable woman, one of 22
survivors from her entire region, and the book she has created
in memory of those murdered in her village.
For information
regarding rental of this exhibit, please contact Estelle Kafer,
Director, Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford at
(860) 727-6171 or e-mail at ekafer@jewishhartford.org
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1843-1943
One Hundred Years of Jewish Congregations in Connecticut:
An Architectural Survey
Synagogues
have long served as the foundation of Jewish life. This exhibition
identifies and documents historic synagogues, built in Connecticut
between 1843 and 1943 and is based upon the architectural
survey conducted by the Connecticut Historical Commission
and noted state architectural historian David F. Ransom. The
survey concentrates on three types synagogue architecture:
rural, urban, and buildings converted to synagogue use and
serves as a permanent record of many sites which have changed,
disappeared, or are endangered. This
exhibition design consists of 60 black and white photographs
with captions mounted on foam core. The photographs vary in
size from 5"x7" to 12"x16". Eighty running
feet of space are required for this exhibit.
For information regarding rental of this exhibit, please contact
Estelle Kafer, Director, Jewish Historical Society of Greater
Hartford at (860) 727-6171 or e-mail at ekafer@jewishhartford.org
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