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Anne Frank Center U.S.A. +	Located just two blocks north of the World Trade Center site, The Center features a newly designed interactive exhibit that tells Anne’s story using excerpts from her diary, stories and images of her family and those who hid with her, and a unique space for study and reflection. An enclosed area with life-sized photography of Anne’s bedroom, where she wrote in her diary, offers visitors a uniquely immersive experience incorporating ambient noise and selections from Anne’s diary read aloud. Check the website for the changing exhibits.  +
Anne Frank House +	In addition to the historic rooms, where the history of Anne frank is central, there are other exhibitions in the museum.  +
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Breed Street Shul(East Los Angeles) +	It was the largest Orthodox synagogue in the western United States from 1915 to 1951,[2] and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. For more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breed_Street_Shul  +
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Erfurt Synagogue +	The Erfurt Synagogue was built c. 1100. It is thought to be the oldest synagogue building still standing in Europe. It is used as a museum and permanently houses the Erfurt Treasure. The oldest parts of the building date from the 11th century and the medieval building is preserved to a remarkable degree, including the roof. The building was used for purposes other than worship for many years.  +
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Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County +	Learn about what life was like for a jewish farmer. Check for site for the hours.  +
Jewish Historical Museum(Amsterdam) +	The museum's collection includes some 11,000 art objects, ceremonial objects and historical objects, only some five percent of which is on display at any one time. It has two permanent exhibitions as well as regularly changing temporary exhibitions. The exhibition on the ground floor focuses on Jewish traditions and customs. The presentation is inspired by the former interior of the synagogue. Ceremonial objects from the museum collection are shown in locations where they used to be placed in the synagogue. This gives visitors a sense of the surroundings in which they find themselves and enables them to taste the original synagogue atmosphere.  +
Jewish Historical Society of New Jersey +	Large archives for research. Check out the exhibits about Jewish New Jersey history.  +
Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU +	Located in a former synagogue that housed Miami Beach's first Jewish congregation, our museum's restored 1936 Art Deco building and 1929 original synagogue are both on the National Register of Historic Places. The 301 building features nearly 80 stained glass windows, a copper dome, marble bimah and many Art Deco features including chandeliers and sconces. The focal point of the museum is our core exhibit: MOSAIC: Jewish Life in Florida, depicting nearly 250 years of Florida Jewish history through photographs and artifacts from all over the state. The stories in our museum about Jews who came from diverse lands and helped develop our state while maintaining their traditions are stories that relate to all visitors.  +
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Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue/Museum +	A 2,000-year-old culture virtually unknown, even to its neighbors. A tiny group. A minority within a minority. They are called Romaniotes. An obscure branch of Judaism, which few Jews have ever heard of, with traditions dating back to Roman times. They are Jews who, after the destruction of the Second Temple, were sent on a slave ship to Rome. Instead, a storm forced them to land in Greece, where over the next 2,000 years, they developed uniquely different ethnic and religious customs. Today, all these years later, you can visit the only synagogue in the Western Hemisphere of this tiny, obscure Jewish community. The Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum. Still operating in its original form. View costumes from Janina, the Romaniote capital of Greece. Behold the largest collection of Alephs, the Romaniote's distinctive hand-painted birth certificates. Learn about the Romaniote's differenced from the Sephardim. Follow their travels through history.  +
Kozma Street Jewish Cemetery +	The Kozma Street Cemetery is the biggest Jewish cemetery of Budapest, Hungary. It is located next to the New Public Cemetery (Újköztemető).  +
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Lodz Jewish Cemetary +	The first Jewish Cemetery in Lodz was established in 1811 at the Wesola Street. In the 50’s of the XX century a residential neighborhood and a street was built on the cemetery grounds. Today a stone obelisk, erected in 2004 by the initiative of the President of Lodz, Dr. Jerzy Kropiwnicki, remembers about this Cemetery. The Cemetery at the Bracka Street in Lodz was established in 1892. About 160 000 people are buried there. Today the Cemetery has an area of 39,6 hectare. In more than 100 years of the history of the Cemetery many meritorious for our city and its history people like known rabbis, fabricants, physicians, politicians, social activists etc were buried at this Cemetery. Their tombstones often show high class of stone and metal craftworks. Also here are buried victims of one of the most tragic events in the history of the mankind - Holocaust. On the part of the Cemetery called “Ghetto Field” some 43 000 victims from the Ghetto Lodz, who died from hunger and consumption, are buried there. On their graves seldom we can see a matzeva. To keep the memory about them, the Foundation cleaned this area in the years 2004 - 2009. In spite of other works on the Cemetery, Ghetto Field was the most important and crucial to restore so, that the few still living descendants of the persons buried there, could put the matzeva on the graves of their love ones, and the Ghetto Field would receive the character of the military cemetery, as it in fact is. Thanks to the kindness and financial support of Mr. Josef Buchmann from Frankfurt/Main, the essential base of people buried at the Cemetery was established. We succeeded to gather information about 90 000 persons. But this base is not complete. We are trying to find new information’s from different sources. We are making inventory and photographic documentation of the still existing tombstones at the Cemetery and take the personal data written on them. The Cemetery website will allow every interested person to check the names list of persons buried in the particular sections. Detailed information about the place of burial based on the cemetery documentation could be obtain from the created now by the Foundation Monumentum Iudaicum Lodzense and Jewish Community in Lodz ARCHIVE OF THE JEWS OF LODZ, which is located at the 18, Pomorska Street in Lodz. Premises for the archive were redecorated by the Foundation thanks to donation from Mr. Josef Buchman from Frankfurt/Main. (taken from the website  +
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Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage +	Located next door to Temple - Tifereth Israel. In two permanent collections, An American Story and The Temple - Tifereth Israel Gallery, compelling personal stories and oral histories are brought to life by film, computer interactives, special effects and dramatic exhibitions that feature unique artifacts, art, documents and images.  +
Museum at Eldridge Street +	Discover the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue, a breath-taking National Historic Landmark located on Manhattan (New York City) (New York City) (New York City)'s Lower East Side. Take tour of the restored national landmark. Checkout the exhibits to learn what life was like on the lower east side at the turn of the century.  +
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National Center for Jewish Film +	The National Center for Jewish Film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. NCJF's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and educational value relevant to the Jewish experience and the dissemination of these materials to the widest possible audience. NCJF exclusively owns the largest collection of Jewish content film in the world, outside of Israel. The Center's 15,000 reels of feature films, documentaries, newsreels, home movies and institutional films date from 1903 to the present. Founded in 1976, NCJF is recognized as a world leader in the collection, restoration and exhibition of Jewish art and culture. The center has led the revival of Yiddish Cinema, rescuing these languishing films from oblivion. NCJF's priority is the preservation and restoration of rare and endangered film materials. To date, the Center has restored more than 100 rare and orphan films that document the diversity and vibrancy of Jewish culture, including 44 Yiddish films. In the scope of its collections and the range of its activities, NCJF is the only organization of its kind. As the largest and oldest resource center for programming Jewish content film materials, NCJF is the world's premiere resource for and about Jewish film. Each year, NCJF provides programming consultation and research assistance to 7,000 filmmakers, artists, educators, curators and organizations. The Center helped launched the now de rigueur programming of Jewish film festivals and is responsible, in part, for the development of Jewish and ethnic film as a subject for academic study and public exhibition. NCJF is also an exhibitor, producing programs for the public, including 17 Boston-area film festivals. Under its fiscal sponsorship program, NCJF provides a non-profit umbrella to independent filmmakers; thirteen documentary films are currently in production under NCJF's aegis. NCJF fosters cultural, artistic and educational programming worldwide through its extensive access programs. The Center is a major distributor of Jewish-content films and represents the work of 100 independent filmmakers from around the world. In all, more than 250 films--restored classics and contemporary independent films--are available for public exhibition and DVD purchase. Each year, NCJF provides films to over 400 venues world wide, as well as for television broadcast. NCJF film materials are used in thousands of classrooms and many hundreds of documentaries, TV newsmagazines and museum exhibitions.  +
National Museum of American Jewish History +	The National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) is a Smithsonian-affiliated museum at 101 South Independence Mall East (S. 5th Street) at Market Street in Center City Philadelphia. It was founded in 1976. With its founding in 1976 the 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m2) museum shared a building with the Congregation Mikveh Israel.  +
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South African Jewish Museum +	A moving tribute and detailed account of one of the great Jewish communities of the diaspora, the South African Jewish Museum is one of Cape Town’s not-to-be missed heritage experiences. Situated in the midst of arguably the most interesting and historic urban square miles in the country, and on a campus that includes SA’s first, oldest and surely grandest synagogue, the South African Jewish Museum is nevertheless a marvel of modern architecture, and one whose contents mirror this fusion of the old world and the new. Its sleek, gleaming interiors house a range of interactive displays, audio-visual presentations and rare and fascinating artefacts, taking visitors on a journey back to South African Jewry’s early roots, and painting a portrait of a community who were extraordinarily influential in the building of South Africa as we know it, and who continue to thrive and impact society at every level. The museum also looks back fondly at the origins of SA Jewry hailing from Eastern Europe and elsewhere (and featuring a wonderful recreation of shtetl life) and traces the cultural history of Jews, Jewish life and Judaism in general. As an added attraction, the museum is home to one of the world’s finest collections of Netsuke (Japanese miniature art). A thrilling combination of the old and new, the historic and the contemporary, the religious and the worldly, the South African Jewish Museum is a fitting tribute to a community who have been and continue to be at the epicentre of South Africa’s economic, political and cultural narrative. -form the website  +
Stutthof (concentration Camp) +	The thought of establishing a camp for "undesirable Polish elements" was born among the Nazi authorities of the Free City of Danzig long before the war broke out. At least since 1936 officials of the police watched and invigilated Polish circles, compiled material which in 1939 served as basis to prepare lists of Poles to be arrested first. In July 1939 a special SS troop was established -"Wachsturmbann Eimann", whose aim was among others to find sites and organize detention camps. In the middle of August 1939 the site for the future concentration camp Stutthof was selected. The moment the Nazis invaded Poland, massive arrests of Poles in the Free City of Danzig started. Only in the first day of the war approx. 1500 people were arrested. The victims of arrests were mainly Poles active in social and economical life, activists and members of polish organisations. Among the arrested Poles a group of 150 persons was selected and, as early as on the 2nd September 1939, they were transported to Stutthof. In this moment the tragic story of this camp, a story that lasted for many years, began. Stutthof served mainly for extermination of the most aware and patriotic Poles, mainly from the educated circles from Danzig and Pomorze Region. Since 1942 transports of Poles arrived and were directed not only by police units from Danzig-West Prussia, but also from other regions of the occupied country. At this time Stutthof became an international camp. In June 1944 it became part of the project "the final solution of the Jewish problem" - "Endloesung". In this way it became a camp of mass- extermination. Within the 5 years of its existance Stutthof grew from a small camp comprising 12ha in area intended for 3500 prisoners at a time (in 1940) to 120ha and 57 000 prisoners (in 1944). In all it comprised 39 Subcamps. Stutthof was the place where 110 000 people were kept: men, women and children; citizens of 28 countries and over 30 nationalities. Among them were also Poles, Jews, Russians, Ukrainians, White Russians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Czechs, Slovaks, Finns, Norwegians, French, Danes, Dutch, Belgs, Germans, Austrians, English, Spanish, Italians, Yugoslavs, Hungarians and Gypsies. During the imprisonment they were exposed to a number of exterminating factors such as slave-like work, malnutrition, terrible sanitation, disease, mental and physical torture. 65 000 people died as a result of exterminating living conditions as well as of executions by shooting, hanging, murdering in gas chambers by means of Cyclone B, killing by means of phenol injections into the heart, beating and torturing, and during evacuation by land and by sea. Stutthof was freed on 9th of May by troops of the Soviet Army- the 48th Army of the 3rd White Russian front  +
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THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE +	A word from the Director Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the website of the Jewish Museum in Prague. Attracting between 500,000 to 600,000 visitors each year, our institution is consistently the most frequented museum in the Czech Republic. This proves, more than anything else, that the tour of its synagogues (which date from various historical periods) and its exhibitions (which feature a remarkable variety of ritual objects) provides a unique cultural experience, in fact one of the greatest on offer in the capital of the Czech Republic. The Jewish Museum in Prague is a memorable place not only, however, because of the unique connection between the architecture of its buildings and the craftsmanship of those who made its individual artefacts. For it does not owe the diversity of its collections to patrons of art, collectors, foundations or to support from the city or state, as is usual in other places in the world. The Jewish Museum in Prague achieved its renown mainly through a cruel blow of fate, because, in its basic form, it emerged from the tragedy of the Jewish nation during the Second World War. The Nazi-controlled shipment of objects from the liquidated Bohemian and Moravian Jewish communities to the Jewish Museum was a preliminary to the gathering together of people. First, the objects were given numbers, then the people who had used them. However, it was the objects – not the people – that survived the rage of war. The objects that were gathered in our museum were, in fact, silenced twice. Firstly, when the Nazis took them from those to whom they had belonged for centuries; and secondly, through the actions of the Communist authorities which, throughout the more than forty years they were in power, did not allow exhibitions to be held within the Jewish spiritual or historical context. The Jewish Museum in Prague which, since October 1994, has been active as an independent, non-state organization, managed by the Czech Jewish community, has removed this debt, having become both a dignified memorial to the victims of the Shoah, and an eternal reminder of the beauty and greatness of Jewish culture. I would like to express the conviction that our website will be of interest to you and, above all, will encourage you to make a personal visit to Prague and the Jewish Museum. The development of the museum also owes a great deal to its sponsors and supporters – among others, The Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, ORT, The Rich Foundation and The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. We would like to thank all our sponsors and supporters, as well as our visitors and all those who are interested in our activities. Welcome to the Jewish Museum in Prague. Leo Pavlát Director  +
The Semitic Museum at Harvard University +	The Semitic Museum is one of the Harvard University Museums, housing collections of archaeological materials from the Ancient Near East. Our current exhibits explore everyday life in ancient Israel during the Iron Age; a second millennium BCE Hurrian city, located in modern-day Iraq; and the history of ancient Cyprus through ceramics and metal objects. As always, all exhibits are free and open to the public.  +
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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology +	Large permanent exhibit on Canan and ancient Israel. http://www.penn.museum/long-term-exhibits/canaan-and-israel-gallery.html The Egyptian mummy exhibit may pose a problem for Cohanim.  +
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Vilna Shul +	The Vilna Shul was built in 1919 by Jews from Vilnius, Lithuania, and is the last of over 50 places of worship that flourished in Boston during the era of great Jewish immigration. The building is modeled after Europe's oldest synagogues. Three layers of original wall art discovered under layers of sanctuary paint evoke centuries-old Eastern European carved and painted synagogue interiors. The Vilna Center for Jewish Heritage Inc. has rescued the building and is currently raising funds to restore it as Boston's Jewish museum and cultural center. The Vilna Shul was declared an American Treasure in 1999 by Save America's Treasures, a partnership of the White House Millennium Council and The National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Vilna Center is open with trained docents in attendance on Sunday afternoons from 1:00 to 3:00 from mid-April through mid-November. Tour groups can arrange visits at other times by calling (617) 523-2324 and leaving a message.  +
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Warsaw Jewish Cemetery +	Jewish Cemetery, I think the Netziv and R Chaim Solovecick are buried here.  +
Worms Jewish Cemetery +	The Jewish Cemetery in Worms or Heiliger Sand, in Worms, Germany, is usually called the oldest surviving Jewish cemetery in Europe,[1] although the Jewish burials in the Jewish sections of the Roman catacombs predate it by a millennium. The Jewish community of Worms was established by the early eleventh century, and the oldest tombstone still legible dates from 1058/59.[2] The cemetery was closed in 1911, when a new cemetery was inaugurated. Some family burials continued until the late 1930s. The older part contains still about 1300 tombstones, the newer part (on the wall of the former city fortifications, acquired after 1689, more than 1200. The cemetery is protected and cared for by the city of Worms, the Jewish community of Mainz-Worms and the Landesdenkmalamt of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is being documented and researched since 2005 by the Salomon L. Steinheim-Institute for German-Jewish History at the University of Duisburg-Essen.- Taken from Wikipedia  +