Museum of Jewish Heritage Kicks Off 20th Anniversary This Week
By: BWW News Desk Sep. 11, 2017
Scroll down for details of happenings this week at The Museum Of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust!
NUMEROUS EVENTS KICK-OFF MUSEUM'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 | 7 P.M
Opening of New Dimensions in Testimony
New Dimensions in Testimony, a next generation, interactive technology that allows two Holocaust survivors, Pinchas Gutter and Eva Schloss (Anne Frank's step sister), interact virtually and answer questions from viewers opens at the Museum this week. The idea behind this initiative - which started with the Shoah Foundation - is that these survivors may not be around forever, but their holograms - and therefore their ability to tell their stories - can be. 100 years from now, generations will be able to hear about the horrors of the Holocaust from the survivors themselves.
Eyewitness to History: Conversation with Pinchas Gutter
Pinchas Gutter lived in the Warsaw ghetto for three-and-a-half years, took part in its uprising, survived six Nazi concentration camps, and lived through a death march across Germany. At this installation-opening event, Gutter will discuss his experience as the face of New Dimensions in Testimony?. Free with Museum admission; advance registration recommended
20th Anniversary Opening Reception
Guests in attendance will include:
- Ambassador Dani Dayan (Israel)
- Ambassador Mateo Estreme (Argentina)
- Comptroller Scott Stringer
- Michael Goldmann-Gilead, Eichmann Interrogation Officer & Holocaust Survivor (honoree)
- Pinchas Gutter, Holocaust Survivor & first interviewed for USC Shoah's New Dimensions in Testimony
- George Klein, Vice Chair
- Marty Markowitz
- Bruce C. Ratner, Chairman
- Robert M. Morgenthau, Founder & Chairman Emeritus
- Larry A. Silverstein, Vice Chair
- Abraham H. Foxman, Vice Chair and Dir. of the Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism
- Ofir Akunis, Israel's Minister of Science, Technology and Space
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 | 3 P.M.
Peter Malkin: The Man Who Captured Eichmann (Gallery Talk)
Peter Malkin, the legendary Israeli intelligence agent who directed the surveillance that led to the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann on a street in Buenos Aires, will be remembered by his son Omer Malkin in this intimate conversation with Harry Stein, co-author of Malkin's 1990 memoir Eichmann in My Hands.
Free with Museum admission; advance registration recommended
Eyewitness to History: Conversation with Michael Goldman-Gilead
Michael Goldman-Gilead, a key member of the special police unit created to gather evidence for the Eichmann trial, will appear in conversation with Eli M. Rosenbaum, longtime U.S. Justice Department prosecutor of Nazi war criminals. Goldman-Gilead will share his recollections of the trial. Goldman-Gilead lives in Israel and this will likely be the last time he speaks in the United States.
$12 general, $10 Museum members, $5 students
Co-presented by Beit Hatfutsot, Tel Aviv
These two talks - along with several others this season - are a companion to Operation Finale: The Capture and Trial of Adolph Eichmann, on view at the Museum through December 22, 2017. Events take place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in the Edmond J. Safra Hall, 36 Battery Place, New York, NY 10280.
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