This week I
am taking a little detour from my usual enlightenment about Architectural
events in Los Angeles to make note of the ongoing events at the Los Angeles
Museum of the Holocaust. I was recently
paging thru some family albums and came across a group of photographs taken by
my father at the Potsdam Conference in July of 1945. He was a photographer in the Signal Corps
during the war and was fortunate enough to attend the proceedings at the
conference where Churchill, Truman and Stalin divided up what was left of
Europe and the Far East at the end of the war. You can read more about this
at: http://bit.ly/XfAvuI
These photos
depict not only the “Big Three” as they were known, but also images behind the scenes;
the press corps and Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern of
Germany where the conference was held. I found these images fascinating
and I hope you do as well.
The size of the press corps in 1945 stands in sharp contrast to how the media covers an international event in the current world of media frenzy!
As for the Museum, here’s
some background and a synopsis of the schedule for November: The Los Angeles of The Holocaust
boasts the west coast's largest archive of documents, relics and other primary
source materials from the Holocaust period (1933-1945). There is a Virtual Tour
for detailed descriptions of each area of the Museum on the web site: http://bit.ly/VPybWk
The Difference of a Single Day
Photos and artifacts detail Katy
Haber’s quest to resolve the mystery of her relatives’ fate and the amazing
discovery she made across continents and years.
Erich
Lichtblau-Leskly Collection
The Museum’s Erich Lichtblau-Leskly
Theresienstadt Collection of original paintings or ghetto-picture diaries is
the largest collection of this artist’s work.
The
World That Was Interactive Table
Located in the first room, The
World That Was, a large computer touch-screen table depicts the
intertwined and rich Jewish community existing before the Holocaust.
Interactive
Concentration Camp Monitors
In the combined Deportation
& Extermination and Labor/Concentration/Death Camps rooms,
individual touch monitors allow visitors to learn about 18 different
concentration camps.
Tree
of Testimony
The Tree of Testimony, a dramatic
array of video screens displayed the final room of the Museum tour, showcases
the unbelievable stories of Holocaust survivors.
Where is it, you ask…
100 S. The Grove Dr.
Los Angeles, Ca. 90036
(323) 651-3704
