Remembrance of Things Past

Today’s blog is by Lisa.

Today the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust welcomed a delegation of staff and interns from the Tribute WTC Visitor Center. The Tribute Center is an institution dedicated to sharing a traumatic period of history through the voices of survivors, family members, eye witnesses, and others who want to bear witness to the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Like our Museum, they depend on first-person accounts to convey the significance of this history. Their guide this morning was our Gallery Educator and Holocaust survivor Sol Rosenkranz, who at age 92,works out with a personal trainer and just makes us all smile whenever we see him.

I had the opportunity to visit the Tribute Center last month and found it imbued with humanity and love, and an incredibly profound experience. The Tribute Center offers both gallery tours and walking tours of the World Trade Center site that provide a powerful way to understand the events of 9/11 in context. Our staff has been invited to tour their galleries in August, and I encourage people from everywhere, especially New York City, to visit. Learn more about this important neighbor of ours.

Photo of Sol and our visitors from the Tribute Center by Abby.