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At 5am on Friday December 18, 2009, Polish police were alerted that the infamous wrought iron sign at Auschwitz, "Arbeit Macht Frei," was stolen. After a frantic three day search, the sign was recovered after being cut into three pieces several hundred miles to the north, near Gdansk. Five men were arrested and if convicted could spend 10 years in prison.

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The Anne Frank Theater Project entertained and enlightened 60 sixth grade students and the staff at the Temple Beth Am religious school, Sunday morning, December 13, 2009. This was the first time the project performed its one hour abridged play under the auspices of the Holocaust Awareness Museum, which recently became the project’s new sponsor. The performance was a 45-minute adaptation of the acclaimed Broadway play “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett.

On Thursday, November 19th, 2009 the Holocaust Awareness Museum kicked off its Witness To History Project with six freshman students.

The Holocaust Awareness Museum sponsored Ilse Lindemeyer’s presentation of her Kristallnacht experiences as a Holocaust survivor to a “Jewish Life” class at the Klein Branch JCC, at the invitation of instructor and Jewish educator Francesca Axe to commemorate the 71rst anniversary of Kristallnacht on Monday, November 9th, 2009.

We are proud to provide you with an updated biography of Joseph Kahn, a survivor of six concentration and death camps.
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On Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 the Holocaust Awareness Museum sponsored a unique and dynamic survivor outreach program at the Philadelphia Learning Academy an alternative educational institution in the Port Richmond section of the city.

At the invitation of Kahlila Ames, Principal and Jessica Melman, English Studies, three Auschwitz survivors, Manya Perel, Itka Zygmuntowicz, and Michael Herskovitz presented their Holocaust survival stories to the student body of more than sixty young men and women.

Joseph Kahn, Holocaust survivor of Polish ghettos and camps, took his courage and story to Boys Latin Charter School in Philadelphia, Thursday morning, December 3rd, 2009. Joe was invited to address a group of 60 students and half a dozen staff by Andrew Marcinek, the 10th grade literature teacher.

Interjecting pathos and humor, Joe related how a “normal” life of anti-Semitic stresses prior to September 1st, 1939 was turned upside down on September 2nd when the Nazis invaded his home town in Poland just 11 miles from the German border.

Chuck Feldman, Holocaust Awareness Museum president, visited two synagogues on successive days, December 1st and 2nd , to introduce the newly created DVD documentation of the Hans Salomon/Tracy Strong reunion between holocaust survivor and righteous savior sponsored by the museum in April 2008.

The man accused of helping to murder nearly 28,000 people at Sobibor is set to begin his defense today in Munich.

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New resources for teachers, including curriculum programs, lesson plans, and two collections from the BBC about the Holocaust and World War II.
New resources for students.
In addition, we have made our library available online for your convenience. It will be updated regularly and soon our collection of more than 300 books will be available for perusal. In addition, you will soon be able to search by keyword.

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