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Virtual Visit with HMTC's Curator's Corner Virtual Programs 2020 September |
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Virtual Program from Holocaust Memorial Tolerance Center of Nassau County |
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September 2, 2020 - September 30, 2020 |
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Holocaust Memorial Tolerance Center of Nassau County |
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Varies, NY |
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Virtual deep dives into artifacts in HMTC's galleries. The September Curator's Corners include:
Curator's Corner: The Labor Service Corps at The 1934 Nazi Party Rally
Wednesday September 2 2020 at 11:00 AM. Our Museum and Programming Director, Dr. Thorin Tritter, will talk about a photograph in our gallery of the Reich's Labor Service Corps at the Nazi Party Rally of 1934, highlighting the power of the annual rallies and the ways Nazi Germany sought to get around limitations imposed by the Versailles Treaty.
Curator's Corner: An Antisemitic Beer Stein
Wednesday September 9 2020at 11:0AM
Dr. Thorin Tritter, HMTC's Museum and Programming Director, will explore an antisemitic beer stein, made in the 1890s, that stands in our opening gallery, deciphering its images and discussing their meaning.
Curator's Corner: A Child's Drawing from Theresienstadt
Wednesday September 16 2020 at 11:00AM. Thorin Tritter will focus this program on a piece of artwork created by Marietta Gruenbaum, one of 15,000 children who passed through the ghetto and camp in Theresienstadt, and discuss some of the experiences of children during the Holocaust.
Curator's Corner: TB Tests In DP Camps
Wednesday, September 23 2020 at 11:00AM
In the portion of HMT's exhibition that covers the Displaced Persons camps, there is a small x-ray of a Holocaust Survivor. Join Dr. Thorin Tritter for a discussion of this x-ray, the Tuberculosis test that it was a part of, and the concerns about highly contagious diseases in post-war Europe.
Curator's Corner: A Wedding Dress from Pre-War Europe
Wednesday September 30 at 11:00AM
Join Thorin Tritter, HMTC's Museum and Programming Director, for a discussion about a wedding dress that was carried from the Netherlands, in the wake of the Nazi invasion, across the Atlantic to New York and offers a window into the pre-war life of Jews in Amsterdam. |
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516-571-8040 |
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