APR 11, 2013
Stefania Heilbrunn, of South Africa and Ester Wilhelm Tepper, of Beverly Hills, both were young girls when Hitler and the Nazis ruled over and occupied their town of Radomsko, Poland and now, decades later, the two women have reconnected with the publication of “Children of Dust and Heaven: A Diary from Nazi Occupation through the Holocaust,” available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle...
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By Ryan Torok
As Holocaust survivor Robert Geminder led a walking tour in Pan Pacific Park on April 7, pre-arranged memory markers — labeled “ghettos,” “camps,” “resistance” and “rescue” — transformed an outdoor path into a historical timeline.
“The No. 1 reason I’m talking to you here is my luck,” he said.
Stopping at...
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APR 4, 2013
OAA’s 2013 best in design winners unveiled
PATRICIA WILLIAMS
staff writer
The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) has honoured the best in architectural design in its 2013 awards program.
A total of 15 new projects built in the province and elsewhere have been recognized in the design excellence category.
Winners range from sustainable single-family houses to redevelopment of key cultural...
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The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the oldest such museum in the country, will host a city-wide Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration with multiple events Sunday, April 7.
The museum, at 100 The Grove Dr., in Pan Pacific Park, across the street from CBS and The Grove, will be open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
The day’s schedule includes:
• 10 a.m. – Survivor...
READ MOREJAN 31, 2013
By Ryan Torok
The names of 8,000 Italian Jewish victims of the Holocaust were read aloud on Jan. 25 as part of four area events in honor of Italy’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The names were split among four venues in L.A. County: the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) in Pan Pacific Park, Milken Community High School in Bel Air, Bishop Conaty-Our Lady of Loretto High School in...
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JAN 29, 2013
Did you miss Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Museum? Click here to watch a short video commemorating the events.
READ MOREDEC 12, 2012
The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH), which moved into a new $20 million building in 2010, is seeking a new executive director.
According to LAMOTH board chair E. Randol Schoenberg, the board decided at a meeting on Dec. 2 not to renew the contract of its current executive director, Mark Rothman. Schoenberg will serve as acting executive director until a new leader can be found...
READ MOREDEC 12, 2012
I spent several days at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. It is the oldest museum of its kind in the United States. Free to the public, the museum houses a lot of information and artifacts as well as serving as a platform for survivors of the holocaust to tell their stories. In the 1990s, Steven Spielberg made a movie called Schindler’s List. Before then, for almost fifty years, holocaust...
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OCT 11, 2012
The Holocaust can feel like an abstract concept, something that happened to people from a distant land in an alternative universe. No museum or exhibit brings home the banality of evil and the overpowering enormity of what the Nazis wrought like the L.A. Museum of the Holocaust's engrossing video art piece, Tree of Testimony. Visitors toggle among the 70 screens splayed across a curved wall, each showing...
READ MOREOCT 11, 2012
While Beverly Hills has the Museum of Tolerance, the Fairfax District is now home to the Museum of the Holocaust, which opened in Ovctober 2010. The subect matter is, naturally, dark, but the museum treats it in a sensitive manner, providing audio guides that lead visitors through a succession of rooms detailing the rise of Nazism through concentration camps, the Holocaust, and its aftermath...
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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 10, 2012
The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the oldest Holocaust museum in the U.S., and A Dime and A Penny Foundation, a Holocaust non profit, are pleased to announce the release of the portrait book trilogy, Living Witnesses: Triumph Over Tragedy. The launch event will take place tomorrow at Paramount Studios’ Paramount Theatre on October 11, 2012 at...
SEP 18, 2012
Lifestyle
September 12, 2012
Survivor: Regina Hirsch
By Jane Ulman
“Leave your possessions. We will bring them to you,” a Jewish commando greeted the trainload of Jews arriving at Auschwitz. He pointed to Regina Landowicz’s mother: “Too old.” And to her sister Lillie: “Too young.” Sally, another sister, took scissors from her rucksack and quickly trimmed their...
AUG 30, 2012
“Hey, you Jew. Open up the door.” It was 4 a.m. on a Sunday morning, just before Passover 1944, when two gendarmes in the village of Chiesd, Transylvania, banged on the door where 12-year-old Edith Izsak lived with her parents, three siblings and two young cousins. “Take all the food you can carry,” said the men, who just the previous evening had...
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AUG 28, 2012
The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust hosted a moment of silence at the Munich Athlete Memorial in Pan Pacific Park. The ceremony took place next to a plaque memorializing victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist attack on Israeli athletes. The moment of silence took place at 3pm on Sunday, August 12th, 2012, at approximately the time when the closing ceremonies of the 2012 games in London...
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Last week, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH), the city's only free museum dedicated exclusively to the history of the Holocaust, celebrated the grand opening of its new exhibit, "Tree of Testimiony: USC Shoah Foundation Institute Interviews."
The exhibit consists of 70 video screens displaying the more than 51,000 interviews maintained in the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's archives...
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AUG 14, 2012
CSULB holds training workshop on teaching the Holocaust
By Kelly Puente Staff Writerpresstelegram.com
Posted: 08/09/2012 06:32:27 PM PDT
August 10, 2012 4:20 AM GMTUpdated: 08/09/2012 09:17:52 PM PDT
LONG BEACH - Educating children about a sensitive subject like the Holocaust can be a difficult task for teachers, said high school history teacher Kerrin Conroy.
"You want to get the kids interested...
READ MOREAUG 14, 2012
LAMOTH has been featured on the website www.digplanet.com as one of Los Angeles' must-see museums.
http://www.digplanet.com/wiki/List_of_museums_in_Los_Angeles
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AUG 9, 2012
A black lattice of metal piping spreads in front of a dark, curved wall holding a large cluster of television screens. About 20 people stand or sit transfixed beneath this Tree of Testimony, watching the faces of about 70 Holocaust survivors as they laugh, cry, gesticulate and often just sit solemnly while speaking...
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AUG 7, 2012
“Where are the dollars?” two plainclothes Gestapo officers demanded as they appeared without warning on both sides of Sol Berger. Sol denied any knowledge, even though the daughter of a local currency dealer was hovering nearby at the train station in Tarnow, Poland, holding the dollars he desperately needed to immigrate to Palestine. The officers led him to Gestapo headquarters where, in...
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MUSEUM TO HOST MOMENT OF SILENCE AT
MUNICH ATHLETE MEMORIAL IN PAN PACIFIC PARK
AUG 7, 2012
The Gregg family has visited the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust twice, most recently to "...hear a lecture on the proliferation of memorials to the Holocaust being dedicated in Germany."
http://familygregg.blogspot.com/2012/08/los-angeles-museum-of-holocaust.html
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JUL 26, 2012
Castilenti, a remote Italian mountain village, will be pulling out all the stops to welcome Gertrude (Gerti) Goetz and confer an honorary citizenship on the Los Angeles resident on Saturday evening, July 28.
The first time Gerti saw Castilenti was back in 1940. She was 9 years old and had fled her native Vienna with her parents after Hitler’s takeover of Austria.
Although Italy was allied with...
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JUL 5, 2012
One of LAMOTH's founding board members, Masha Loen, shares her courageous tale of survival during the Holocaust with the Jewish Journal.
As Masha Sapoznikow returned to the Kovno ghetto just past noon on March 27, 1944, she sensed an eerie quiet. German and Lithuanian soldiers, armed with machine guns, were uncharacteristically posted at the gate. Masha, looking older than her 13...
JUN 26, 2012
Museum Vistior, & Blogger Infinity-x-Infinity uses Instagram, a photography enhancement application, to share their take on LAMOTH.
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/holocaust?before=1340675084
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JUN 20, 2012
When Todd Samuel Presner was “drilling down” through the history of Los Angeles, he noticed something unusual in a 1939 map of the city’s eastern part.
In contrast to the surrounding areas, the entire Boyle Heights neighborhood was colored in red.
To real estate agents and mortgage lenders, the “redlined” area was a clear signal that this was no place for upstanding...
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JUN 12, 2012
LOS ANGELES—The Getty Foundation is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its heralded Multicultural Undergraduate Internship program this summer as it welcomes the 115 new interns of 2012.
Launched in the wake of Los Angeles’ civil unrest in 1992, the Multicultural Undergraduate Internship program seeks to increase diversity within the staffs of museums and visual arts organizations by...
MAY 16, 2012
The Museum is happy to finally present to you a video describing the story of the Swiss Consulate's efforts to sponsor a tree in our Garden of the Righteous. It's a great story of upstanding when it would have been easier to do nothing — exactly the kind of action that we hope people take when responding to the Holocaust.
Watch the video here:
READ MOREMAY 8, 2012
West Los Angeles, which stretches from the Miracle Mile to Brentwood, is an oasis of culture paired with chic, urban perks. A wealth of amenities, including world-class museums, chic shopping areas and chef-driven restaurants, are in store.
The Miracle Mile is home to several of LA’s top museums, all within walking distance of one another. Among...
READ MOREAPR 26, 2012
Watch coverage of Yom HaShoah 2012 by CNC World, beginning at 9:15 in the following video:
http://www.cncworld.tv/Lifestyles/v_show/23892_5.shtml
READ MOREAPR 26, 2012
Visit the USC news page for a mention of the Museum's new Tree of Testimony exhibit:
http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/usc_in_the_news/inthenews.php?id=2445
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APR 25, 2012
By: Jonah Lowenfeld
“How does one commemorate 5.7 million dead?” Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer asked the audience gathered in Pan Pacific Park for Los Angeles’ annual community Yom HaShoah commemoration on April 22. “You can’t, really. How does one avoid the clichés, in saying things that everybody expects you to say?”
With a slight hunch in his shoulders...
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APR 23, 2012
By: Amanda Lewis
Last week was Yom HaShoah, the official day of Holocaust remembrance, a commemoration with good intentions that nonetheless brings up feelings of ambivalence in many Jews I know.
One friend remarked, "Every day is Holocaust remembrance day at my house," indicating she does not share her parents' passion for the subject. Another friend claimed it had been discussed at her Jewish...
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CONTACT:
(323)651-3704
info@lamoth.org
LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF THE HOLOCAUST
COMMEMORATES HOLOCAUST
IN DAY-LONG EVENT SUNDAY, APRIL 22
APR 22, 2012
Check out the ABC News report on the annual Yom HaShoah event, featuring Walk of Remebrance speaker Regina Hirsch:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?v=4017153671746
READ MOREAPR 19, 2012
By: Jspace Staff
Yad Vashem
Perhaps the most famous Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem was established in 1953. Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, the museum is the second most visited tourist site in Israel after the Western Wall. The Mount Herzl site not only hosts the historical museum, but also provides WWII education, victim documentation, and honors non-Jews...
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More than 80 educators learned tools for teaching about the Holocaust during ADL's newly formulated Los Angeles Holocaust Education Institute.
The program launched in the fall with an all-day workshop, A Multimedia Approach to Teaching the Holocaust, in collaboration with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and was attended by teachers from throughout the region.
Participants...
APR 12, 2012
CONTACT
Mark Rothman
323-651-3322
LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF THE HOLOCAUST TO OFFER
“SNEAK PREVIEW” OF INNOVATIVE NEW EXHIBIT
APR 1, 2012
CONTACT:
(323)651-3704
info@lamoth.org
LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF THE HOLOCAUST
LAUNCHES SPANISH AUDIO GUIDE TOUR
MAR 26, 2012
On February 29th, 2012 Zamira Skalkottas took her Sophomore English class to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust in order to gain background knowledge prior to reading the core curriculum book Night by Ellie Wiesel.
On this fieldtrip students were given the opportunity to gain a better contextual understanding of the book Night. At the museum students were able to appreciate the harsh...
READ MOREMAR 20, 2012
BERKELEY - An art history major, sophomore outside hitter Adrienne Gehan had the opportunity to take her classroom knowledge into the real world with a unique internship. For two weeks over winter break, Gehan lived in Los Angeles doing an "externship" with the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Sponsored by Cal, the externship program allows current students to observe the day-to-day activities...
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MAR 5, 2012
Educators attended the fourth session of the LA Holocaust Education Institute, held February 16 at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
"Teaching the Holocaust through Art" featured presentations by Professor Holli Levitsky from Loyola Marymount University, Ilaria Benzoni-Clark and Daniella Gold of the LA Museum of the Holocaust, and ADL Associate Director Matthew Friedman. Participants examined...
FEB 1, 2012
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust has elected Dr. R. Scott Colglazier, Senior Minister to Los Angeles' oldest Protestant congregation, to its Board of Directors, making him the first Christian clergyperson in the museum's fifty year history to serve in this way.
"We're thrilled to have Dr. Colglazier join our board," says Mark Rothman...
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Watch Excecutive Director Mark Rothman's remarks to the conference commemorating the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, hosted in Krakow, Poland by Krakow Medical Society, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Centre for Holocaust Studies and Aushwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=2993653600895
Also, read his remarks here:
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In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, LAHM worked with the Italian Consulate of Los Angeles to read the 8,000 names of Jewish victims. The names were also read simultaneously at Milken Community High School and USC Hillel.
Watch the moving video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vEU2CPSxMQ&context=C3bcdbe6ADOEgsToPDskJHbgyMqbu41G9RebbEepU5
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Visit Women Hold Up Half the Sky, now on view at the Skirball Cultural Center. Show your Museum membership card at the Skirball admissions desk to receive free admission February 18-26, 2012. Please visit www.skirball.org for more information, including museum hours and directions or call the Skirball Membership office at (310) 440 4599. Limit: Four people per Membership. Admission to Noah's Ark at...
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Discover the Arts, the longest running and largest arts campaign in the City, launches the fourth-year of its campaign later this month. Discover the Arts is held in conjunction with the City’s annual Los Angeles Arts Month celebration. Created in partnership with Wells Fargo and approximately 50 cultural institutions as well as media and community partners, the campaign, which runs from January...
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JAN 27, 2012
By Corey Bridwell with Paige Osburn
In 1939, the Nazis took over a 15-square mile area in southwestern Poland for the purpose of building the infamous prison camp Auschwitz. Fast forward nearly 75 years, and Angelenos gathered Friday to mark an area of the same size around Los Angeles with a flash mob.
From 12 p.m. to 12:10 p.m. on Friday, participants stood and held up signs to represent groups...
READ MOREDEC 16, 2011
Hollywood, Calif. December 15, 2011
– Launch flix, a production and digital media company, today announced that the oldest Holocaust museum in the United States, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, has become their new fiscal sponsor for a special Holocaust film project. This relationship is timely as launch flix is gearing up to shoot a short film, Bashert, next month, from a book that...
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DEC 15, 2011
Category: Bond
The new building for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust by local firm Belzberg Architects is located within L.A.’s Pan Pacific Park, the site of the existing Los Angeles Holocaust Monument. The 32,000-square-foot, LEED Gold museum was designed as an educational institution, which anticipates 40,000 students each year. Much of the building is submerged to...
NOV 18, 2011
By Jspace Staff on 11/18/2011 at 4:29 PM
A collection of Holocaust-era stamps, letters, ID Cards, and other documents have been donated to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
The 2,000-some artifacts are valued at $260,000 and will be designated as the Edward Victor Philatelic Holocaust Collection.
Victor, a retired lawyer, accumulated the collection by over a 30-year period. He regularly attended...
NOV 16, 2011
By IAN LOVETT
Published: November 16, 2011
LOS ANGELES — Since Steven Spielberg established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in 1994, the organization has devoted itself exclusively to the memory of Holocaust survivors. Its archives house more than 50,000 video interviews, in 32 languages, with survivors from 56 countries — the largest such collection in the world...
NOV 15, 2011
Award-winning agency Fastspot receives multiple accolades in the 2011 competition
Fastspot is pleased to announce that we have won multiple accolades in the 2011 International Davey Awards.
Fastspot was honored with Gold Awards for our word game app, Jambalaya, and for the Wheaton College and HistoryMiami Websites. Fastspot also received Silver Awards for the Walters Art Museum's Works of Art site, as...
NOV 15, 2011
November 15, 2011
LOS ANGELES (JTA) -- A rare collection of stamps, letters, ID cards and other documents of the Nazi era was donated to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
Valued at $260,000, the Edward Victor Philatelic Holocaust Collection was acquired and organized by Victor, a retired Los Angeles lawyer, over a 30-year period. In many cases the content tracks the fate of a given Jewish family...
NOV 8, 2011
Postcards From Hell: Nazi-era documents shed light on fate of families
By Tom Tugend
After arriving by cattle car at Auschwitz, many Jews were handed postcards, with the uniform message thoughtfully prepared by the Nazis.
“Things are going well and we are enjoying ourselves,” the prisoner wrote. They added their signatures and the addresses of relatives still in ghettos or labor camps, thus...
NOV 1, 2011
ADL successfully expands Holocaust education workshop
By Ryan Torok
For nearly 30 years, Los Angeles secondary-school educators have attended the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) annual Holocaust Education Workshop as part of their professional development. During the month-long series, L.A.-area teachers learned the history of anti-Semitism, listened to survivors’ firsthand stories and visited...
OCT 18, 2011
Schoenberg buys Einstein letter for Holocaust museum
Posted by Tom Tugend
The “anonymous” buyer of a historic letter by Albert Einstein has identified himself as E. Randol “Randy” Schoenberg, president of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
Schoenberg paid $13,936 for the one-page letter, signed by Einstein on his personal stationery and written on June 10, 1939 to New York...
OCT 12, 2011
Today on Radio Johnny, Adaptive Path’s Teresa Brazen talks with the Mark Rothman, Executive Director at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Mark discusses the creative process of designing this new building, including: how they chose to deliver this challenging content, their curatorial philosophy, and how visitors are engaging with the rich technology that drives their visit.
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OCT 1, 2011
LAMH was recently reviewed by Massimiliano Fukas in the Italian weekly magazine "L'Espresso"
Below is a translation of the article.
The new Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is located in Pan Pacific Park, a local park next to the Grove shopping mall. Pan Pacific Park, like many parks of the city, regularly sees crowds of children, men and women, attending to everyday...
SEP 22, 2011
Key Project Goals: The primary design strategy embeds the museum into the surrounding park landscape. This achieves a greater contextual integration while maintaining the openness of the site by continuing the usable green-space over the museum roof. An iconic structure, in this scenario, seamlessly inhabits rather than competes with the site, bridging the community formally and functionally with the...
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SEP 20, 2011
In the August 2011 issue of the Chinese magazine La Vie, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust was named among the Top Ten architectural structures in Los Angeles.
Below is a translation of the article:
2010 Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Belzberg Architects
The new and impressive building for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is a 15 million dollar creation by local Belzberg Architects...
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AUG 31, 2011
August 31, 2011
In Holocaust exhibition, objects give insight into survivors’ pasts
By Ryan Torok
In a photograph currently hanging in the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMH), Holocaust survivor Sophie Zeidman Hamburger drapes a garment she wore while escaping from a Nazi death march over her arms, one of which bears a number tattoo. In another, Toby Fainzylber Tambor holds her mother’s...
AUG 31, 2011
The Media & Technology Committee of the American Association of Museums awarded this year's Gold Muse award in the audio tour category to the Spatial Audio Guide employed at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. The system replaces all text labels in the museum with interpretive audio information, including narrative descriptions of artifacts and soundtracks for all videos playing throughout...
READ MOREAUG 8, 2011
The British 'Schindler' who saved Austrian Jews
By Mike Thomson
The controversial work of the Reverend Hugh Grimes - which began the day after Nazi Germany annexed Austria - is little recognised yet it led to what could be called Britain's own "Schindler's list".
It all began with the Anschluss (annexation), when Hitler made Austria part of the Third Reich just before the start of World War II.
Thousands...
AUG 8, 2011
People look at me like I'm Hitler': Kanye West causes controversy with another bizarre rant
By Mike Larkin
He has a reputation for making outrageous statements.
And Kanye West has once again found himself at the centre of controversy after comparing himself to Adolf Hitler.
The rapper has drew the wrath of Holocaust awareness groups after likening himself to the notorious Nazi during a performance at the...
AUG 5, 2011
Leon Weinstein survived the Warsaw Ghetto. But it is the story of the little girl that he wants to tell.
By Kurt Streeter, Los Angeles Times
August 5, 2011
She was Jewish, but to live she needed a Christian name.
She could not be Natalie Leya Weinstein, not in wartime Warsaw. Her father wrote her new name on a piece of paper.
Natalie Yazinska.
Her mother, Sima, sobbed.
"The little one must make it," Leon...
AUG 4, 2011
Holocaust Studies: CSULB workshop for teachers features talks by survivors, L.A. museum visit By Kelly Puente, Staff Writer
LONG BEACH - When it comes to teaching sensitive subjects like the Holocaust, Cal State Long Beach professor Jeff Blutinger says it's important for teachers to have the right training.
"Most teachers have little to no training on how to teach the Holocaust. Their...
JUL 15, 2011
One of our newest docents describes the Museum and advises us all to take a tour soon!
As you may know, I’m a new docent at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. I recently gave my first medium size public tour. I was pretty nervous, but I think it went well. I had between ten and fifteen people.
The museum is divided into major sections and takes the visitor through the events in chronological...
JUL 13, 2011
• Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust received unanimous approval from Los Angeles City Council to open doors on Saturday
• Saturday hours will allow the Museum of the Holocaust to welcome hundreds of more visitors per week
• City Council approval follows approvals from Arts, Parks, Health and Aging Committee and Board of Commissioners...
JUL 12, 2011
Teacher Workshop at CSULB Will Focus on Age-Appropriate Ways to Teach the Holocaust
With the goal of training local teachers in ways to teach students about the Nazi genocide, the Teacher Workshop on the Holocaust will be held Aug. 8-12 at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) for the second consecutive year.
“This workshop will bring high school teachers on campus for curriculum development...
JUL 11, 2011
Belzberg Architects
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Los Angeles, California
The museum emerges from the landscape as a single, curving concrete wall that splits and carves into the ground to form the entry.
The new Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMH) is located within a public park, adjacent to the existing Los Angeles Holocaust Memorial.
The building is submerged into the ground allowing the...
JUL 5, 2011
July 5, 2011
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Wins MUSE Media Awards
By Lauren Bottner
The new Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMH) earned gold and silver MUSE awards in the annual competition of the American Association of Museums (AAM).
The international AAM Media and Technology Committee announced the 41 winners for the 22nd annual MUSE competition from more than 200 media submissions utilizing...
JUN 30, 2011
LAMH is pleased to announce the Museum has been honored with two design awards.
The Museum received a 2011 Green Good Design Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban studies.
LAMH was also awarded a 2011 Design Excellence Merit Award form the American Institute of Architects California Council.
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JUN 30, 2011
The 2011 GREEN GOOD DESIGN AWARDS FOR THE MOST SUSTAINABLE NEW ARCHITECTURE AND PRODUCT DESIGNS FROM 27 NATIONS
Chicago, Illinois, June 30, 2011…The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design unveil this year’s GREEN GOOD DESIGN™ Awards for new product designs, architecture, landscape architecture, and...
JUN 28, 2011
Video Sculpture of Survivor Testimony to Be Installed at L.A. Museum of the Holocaust
By Jonah Lowenfeld
The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, which opened its new building in Pan Pacific Park in October 2010, has announced plans to install a $1 million “video sculpture” using interview footage from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.
Composed of 65 flat screens of various sizes, the sculpture...
JUN 22, 2011
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust by Belzberg Architects
Writer: David Lindaya
There has always been a sombre link between the United States and memories of the Holocaust. Many Jewish people from Europe sought refuge in the USA while other Americans left to fight in Europe. The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust by Belzberg Architects pays reverence to the individuals, families and communities who...
JUN 21, 2011
FILM FESTIVAL PARTNERS WITH THE MUSEUM OF THE HOLOCAUST TO SHOWCASE GREEN FILMS WITH A HOLOCAUST OR WORLD WAR II THEME
2012 GOING GREEN FILM FESTIVAL @ MIRACLE MILE TO BE HELD AT THE PACIFIC THEATERS AT THE GROVE IN LOS ANGELES
06.21.2011– Los Angeles landmark, The Grove, to host Going Green Film Festival @ Miracle Mile at the Pacific Theaters April 18-20, 2012.
Los Angeles, CA – June 22,...
JUN 20, 2011
L.A. MUSEUM OF THE HOLOCAUST
TO CONTINUE LEADING MUSEUM INNOVATION
WITH SURVIVOR VIDEO SCULPTURE
USING USC SHOAH FOUNDATION INSTITUTE’S VISUAL HISTORY ARCHIVE
• Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust to create 65-screen video sculpture presenting USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s archive of 52,000 interviews with Holocaust survivors and other witnesses
• ...
JUN 2, 2011
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Belzberg Architects
By Clifford A. Pearson
Your visit starts in an unremarkable city park adjacent to a generic shopping mall. Local kids are playing tag, while a man in short sleeves throws a stick for his dog and a family picnics on the grass. You follow a concrete path, which turns into a gently sloping ramp descending into the ground. On either side of you,...
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JUN 1, 2011
Multimedia Installations
Immersive installations that include text, audio, still images, video, and do not require interactivity.
Jury Chair: Ben Bailes
Manager, Interpretive Digital Media
The Morgan Library & Museum
Gold: Rio Tinto Volcanic 3D in AVIE by iCinema UNSW
Museum Victoria
We found Museum Victoria’s 360 degree 3D installation depicting undersea volcanoes a standout among this year’s...
MAY 31, 2011
Audio Tours & Podcasts
Entries can range from audio tours on devices to video and audio podcasts that create links between on-line and/or on-site activities and programs, exhibits, and lectures, creating an augmented and extended experience to a global audience.
Jury Chair: Lynda Kelly
Manager Web and Audience Research
Australian Museum
Gold: Spatial Audio Guide
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Potion...
MAY 19, 2011
From Jewishjournal.com:
The best thing about last week’s conviction in Germany of Sobibor guard John Demjanjuk is that the case works from the bottom up. The low-level functionary was brought to justice.
The worst thing is that for every major war criminal such as Rudolf Hess, Hermann Goering or Adolf Eichmann, there were many multiple Demjanjuks. The nearly 200 high Nazi officials...
READ MOREMAY 19, 2011
The Museum helped support the Shalhevet High School Poland/Israel trip and facilitated several pre-departure educational meetings for the students at the Museum. This is one student’s reaction to his or her experience visiting Chelmno:
I don't know what to say right now. This is not right to intellectualize. How does someone dare intellectualize and make sense of something like this. I just...
MAY 18, 2011
Echoes of Truth: Holocaust Memorial Project 2011
As part of its annual holocaust remembrance ceremony the California State Assembly invited students from throughout the state to interview holocaust survivors and the resulting video was played during the Assembly's floor session on May 2, 2011. The eleven-and-a-half minute video is a compelling look at the holocaust through the eyes of those with a unique...
MAY 13, 2011
Please click on the links bellow to view videos of our amazing interactives at Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust - all designed by Potion.
World That Was Interactive Table
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MAY 12, 2011
German Court Convicts Demjanjuk
Posted by Mark Rothman, Executive Director, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
The best thing about the Demjanjuk conviction (read the L.A. Times Article) is that the case works from the bottom up. The low level functionary - Demjanjuk was only a guard at Sobibor—is brought to justice.
The worst thing is that for every Himmler or Eichman, there were many multiple...
MAY 9, 2011
Arts & Books
The Arts: A Modern Remembrance
By: Joan Tapper
Sitting quietly in its corner of a Los Angeles park, the new home of the Museum of the Holocaust is almost invisible from the street. From the sidewalk, you see only native grasses growing behind low white walls. Eventually, though, you notice a path slicing downward between translucent glass walls, bisecting the submerged building, and you...
MAY 8, 2011
Arquitectura
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, de Belzberg Architects
Ursicino Endaman Nse
Los edificios no son mudos: proporcionan un necesario telón de fondo y un ambiente que aumenta la experiencia espacial y refuerza el mensaje que lanza su contenido. Belzberg Architects se fundamentan en esta evidencia para diseñar el Museo del Holocausto en los Ángeles, en sus siglas...
MAY 3, 2011
May 3, 2011
Holocaust Remembrance Day Draws Crowds to Pan Pacific
By Jonah Lowenfeld
An estimated 2,000 people gathered on May 1 for Los Angeles’ annual commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Pan Pacific Park. The crowd, which included octogenarians in wheelchairs, infants in strollers and people of all ages in between, listened to speeches from elected officials and community leaders who...
MAY 3, 2011
More than 2,500 students commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day during a ceremony at Pan Pacific Park’s Los Angeles Holocaust Monument, Tuesday, May 3, 2011.
Please visit the Los Angeles Daily News to view their picture slideshow of the youth event!
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MAY 2, 2011
Survivors, Jews and non-Jews gather in Los Angeles to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day
Dozens of Holocaust survivors meet to observe Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah, an occasion to honor the 6 million or more who perished in Europe during World War II.
By Ari Bloomekatz, Los Angeles Times
May 2, 2011
Renee Firestone was just a young woman when she and her family were taken from their home in Czechoslovakia...
MAY 2, 2011
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
The Museum of the Holocaust in Los Angeles (LAMOTH) opened to the public in the fall of 2010. The structure, designed by Belzberg Architects of Santa Monica, is built partially underground and covers an area of 32.000sqf. Situated in Pan Pacific Park, it is adjacent to the existing Holocaust Museum built in 1961, and opposite the Holocaust Monument.
Entrance to the...
APR 28, 2011
In observance of National Holocaust Week, Donna and I joined a group of friends for a tour of the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum on April 28, 2011. Set on a wedge of parkland between Pan Pacific Park and Farmer's Market, you might actually miss seeing it. Barely rising above ground level, the museum is mostly below grade, reminding me of the megalithic passage tomb mound I observed on a visit to Newgrange...
READ MOREAPR 12, 2011
Please continue to Iwan Baan Photography to view all the images of the Museum.
READ MOREMAR 31, 2011
Experts: Don't say 'never again' to Holocaust museums
By MENACHEM WECKER FOR THE CHRONICLE
Must Holocaust museums evolve as they approach an age without any living survivors? As the Nazis recede further into the past, is there a danger of museums devoted to Holocaust memory becoming static?
A recent New York Times article by Edward Rothstein raised these provocative questions and has some experts worried...
MAR 30, 2011
Potion Designs Three Interactive Experiences for LA Museum of the Holocaust
Potion announced the completion of two interactive installations and one interactive device for the new Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust in Pan Pacific Park. In 2010, Potion worked with the Museum and interactive strategy consultant Variate Labs to design and fabricate a set of interactives that not only enhanced the museum...
MAR 23, 2011
L.A.'s Holocaust Museum Creates a Quiet Oasis Amid City's Bustle
Belzberg Architects's Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is a subtle memorial in an unsubtle place.
Santa Monica-based Belzberg Architects has sent us breathtaking images of its new Holocaust museum in Los Angeles. Completed last fall, the design looks like plenty of other Holocaust memorials out there -- it's got a somber, Spartan aesthetic...
MAR 23, 2011
L.A.'s Holocaust Museum Uses High Tech to Create a Highly Personal Experience
Just the location of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust makes it clear that it's doing something different. The museum itself is a series of sculptural concrete waves which are tucked almost imperceptibly into a hill of native grasses in Pan Pacific Park, near the Disney-fied architecture of the Grove shopping center...
MAR 23, 2011
Bearing Witness Beyond the Witnesses
By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Published: March 23, 2011
LOS ANGELES — Is the Holocaust too much with us? Or if not the Holocaust, then Holocaust museums?
It can sometimes seem so. The Association of Holocaust Organizations has 293 institutional members around the world, each at least partly devoted to commemoration. The association counts 16 major Holocaust museums in the...
MAR 18, 2011
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust by Belzberg Architects
The new building for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH), designed by Belzberg Architects, is located within a public park, adjacent to existing Los Angeles Holocaust Memorial. Following is some information by the designer, “Paramount to the design strategy is the integration of the building into the surrounding open, park...
MAR 16, 2011
Young leaders get the lowdown in 10-minute talks
By Jonah Lowenfeld
As he took the stage on Feb. 23, Mark Rothman, executive director of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, had just one question.
“Where’s my timer?” he asked.
You have 10 minutes: That’s the first rule for speakers at BINA-LA, a monthly program for young professionals. The events are sponsored by the three-year-old...
MAR 15, 2011
ARCHITECT: LAMH, Los Angeles by Belzberg Architects :
Please go to A1212.com to see the images posted of the Museum.
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Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Designer: Belzberg Architects
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Image Credits: Iwan Baan
The building is submerged into the ground allowing the park’s landscape to continue over the roof of the structure. This eco-structural element is one of the largest intensive green roofs in Southern California, which instantly creates sensitivity and an understanding to its...
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MAR 15, 2011
LAMH // Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust by Belzberg Architects
published in: Architecture By Tina Komninou, 15 March 2011
Project Title: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust // LAMH
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Project Type: Cultural
Construction Type: New
Size: 27,000 ft2
Location: 100 South The Grove Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Client(s): Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
President: Randy Schoenberg...
MAR 4, 2011
SCULPTURE PAYS HOMAGE TO KINDERTRANSPORT
By Suzan Filipek
Before the start of World War II, 10,000 Jewish children rode trains safely to London.
Foster families, farms and orphanages took in the German children, some who were still toddlers. Most would leave their families behind forever.
Their story is told in artist Gabriella Karin’s sculpture, “A Tribute to the...
MAR 2, 2011
ADL Young Leaders Visit Museum of the Holocaust
Date: March 2, 2011
ADL Young Leaders
Young professionals who are part of the Glass Leadership Institute in both the Los Angeles and San Diego regions joined together to visit the new Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust on February 27. The event started with a docent presenting information about the story of the museum, its architect (a former Glass...
FEB 28, 2011
Technology + Art = iPhone apps
February 28, 2011
I saw an article in Art Daily that caught my attention: “A New iPhone App, Which Recognizes Art, Set to Transform the Art Fair Experience.” It was bound to happen and I entirely expected this transformation in the art world.
We already saw the infiltration of technology into experiencing art with the creation of Google’s Art Project...
FEB 15, 2011
A museum dedicated to teaching visitors about the Holocaust, The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMH) design represents a harmony between presentation, architecture, history and education.
Belzberg Architects say the museum’s allegorical interpretation of the Holocast era gives visitors a sensory experience. They are taken on a chronological journey, heading underground through the museum...
FEB 9, 2011
Maria Altmann, Who Sought Nazi-Looted Art, Dies
by Karen Grigsby Bates
Maria Altmann spent the past 60 years of her life in Los Angeles. The Viennese native had fled the Nazis, and her wealthy family's possessions were looted. But in 2004, Altmann won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that allowed her suit against the Austrian government to recover some of the looted art to go forward.
Please go to...
READ MOREFEB 7, 2011
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
The Museum of the Holocaust in Los Angeles (LAMOTH) opened to the public in the fall of 2010. The structure, designed by Belzberg Architects of Santa Monica, is built partially underground and covers an area of 32.000sqf. Situated in Pan Pacific Park, it is adjacent to the existing Holocaust Museum built in 1961, and opposite the Holocaust Monument.
Entrance to the...
FEB 4, 2011
Budding Relationship - The merger of landscape and architecture is creating fertile new approaches to building.
In case you didn’t notice, the architecture world is embracing all things green with an enthusiasm not seen since the 1970s. But this time around, the movement has expanded far beyond the grass-roots level to a broader merging of architecture and landscape. This soil-meets-steel trend...
FEB 2, 2011
February 2, 2011
Piecing together daily life in Terezin
by Iris Mann
Erich Lichtblau-Leskly is relatively unknown, but the power of his art — created while he was an inmate of the concentration camp known as the Theresienstadt ghetto — is evident in the exhibition “The Art Of Erich Lichtblau-Leskly” at the newly opened Museum of the Holocaust in Pan Pacific Park. The paintings...
JAN 31, 2011
The Architecture of Memory
At the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Hagy Belzberg brings sensitivity to a troubling subject
Edie Cohen -- Interior Design
“In Europe in the 1930’s, the years leading up to the Holocaust, people went about living their lives. Families had daily routines. Schoolchildren played in the parks. But nearby, terrible things were happening.” Hagy Belzberg’s...
JAN 27, 2011
Honoring Holocaust Remembrance Day Here at Geni
The Holocaust is one of the most tragic events in human history. Today, we try our best to honor the memories of all of the victims of the genocidal policy of Nazi Germany.
A little while ago, some Geni staffers were given a tour of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust by Randy Schoenberg — the president of the museum, and an avid member of Geni...
JAN 21, 2011
The Company for Location & Restitution of Holocaust Victims’ Assets is a unique entity, founded under the mandate of the Law for Holocaust Victims Assets (2006).
The main goal of the company is to right an historical injustice by returning assets, purchased in pre-state Israel by Holocaust victims, to their rightful owners. Since its inception, the company has returned assets valued at 40...
JAN 5, 2011
The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust's website, designed and built by Fastspot, won the People's Champ award in the 2010 Pixel Awards Non-Profit category. The Pixel Awards were established in 2006. The Pixel Awards take a fresh look at the best on the web. They are the cutting-edge website award, annually honoring compelling sites that have shown excellence in web design and development. Sites are...
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DEC 20, 2010
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust by Belzberg Architects
Written by Murrye Bernard
It seems paradoxical to integrate a structure intended to immortalize the horrific Holocaust within a public park, a setting for recreation and relaxation. The deliberate juxtaposition of these conflicting elements sets the stage for Santa Monica-based Belzberg Architects to curate a meaningful experience for...
DEC 17, 2010
The new Holocaust museum in Los Angeles, which was inaugurated a few weeks ago at the multiplayer, is difficult to identify at first glance. It is carved into a large public park west of the city next to playgrounds and sports, and a green roof planted vegetation. The only hint of its existence is a kind of long, narrow corridor leading to the underground and put the visitors never ever day of memory...
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DEC 1, 2010
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
by F. Ron Smith on December 1, 2010
Offering a culturally enriching and educational experience, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust opened to the public on October 14th, 2010.
Founded in 1961, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust has moved multiple times, but with this amazing new building and the fact that the museum has been built next the the existing Holocaust...
NOV 22, 2010
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Showing a little love for something local to LA, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust opened recently and it’s got some nice interactive exhibits.
The museum is a fairly small space and so interactive was required to allow visitors to as much content as possible. The experience may not be revolutionary, but it’s elegantly done. There are three interactive...
NOV 16, 2010
On November 16, 2010 architect Haby Belzberg was interviewed on 89.9 KCRW. He was featured on the radio show DnA: Design and Architecture.
Click here to listen to the interview!
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NOV 13, 2010
Guy Horton: Impossible Architecture: A Review of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
While it should have been impossible for something like the Holocaust to take place, it did. Now that we have this history we must deal with it as best we can. Events such as this simply overpower the present. For this reason, perhaps, there exist physical places to anchor those memories, so they can be put somewhere...
NOV 10, 2010
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust by Belzberg Architects
Contextual Strategy:
The new building for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) is located within a public park, adjacent to the existing Los Angeles Holocaust Memorial. Paramount to the design strategy is the integration of the building into the surrounding open, park landscape. The museum is submerged into the ground allowing the...
NOV 10, 2010
REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST
Dedication Ceremony for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Los Angeles - In 1961 a group of Holocaust survivors were brought together by fate at Hollywood High School while learning to speak English. They shared their stories and discovered that each of them had different artifacts from the Holocaust era. They decided that the special relics needed a permanent home where...
NOV 6, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010, by Neal Broverman
LA's Newest Museum Up and Running
A model of an Nazi-run Austrian palace is being given to the new Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, reports artdaily. A large replica of Hartheim Castle--a 410-year-old mental institution turned death factory will go on permanent loan at the Pan Pacific Park museum, thanks to a gift from Austrian officials. William C...
NOV 5, 2010
New Los Angeles Holocaust Museum Designed to Look Forward
Santa Monica-based Hagy Belzberg, FAIA, of Belzberg Architects designed the newly finished Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust with forward movement in mind. Built into the landscape of Pan Pacific Park, the sleek white building is sunken into the earth, and its green roof and white pedestrian paths blend it seamlessly into the rest of the park...
NOV 5, 2010
Model of Austrian castle where Nazis murdered thousands headed to US museum
By Veronika Oleksyn (CP)
VIENNA — A model of an Austrian castle where the Nazis murdered about 30,000 people — including many who were mentally ill or disabled — is headed to a U.S. museum.
Hartheim Castle was one of several notorious institutions that Adolf Hitler and his regime turned into the main venues for...
NOV 5, 2010
Maya Zack: A Series of Conversations and Interactions
November 5, 2010 - November 14, 2010
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
The Jewish Artists Initiative (JAI) of Southern California is pleased to announce our next Israeli artist in residence noted video and multi media artist Maya Zack. She will participate in a ten-day residency in the Los Angeles region. This artist exchange is meant to share with...
NOV 4, 2010
L.A. Holocaust Museum Gets Permanent Home
The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust just moved into its first permanent home since local Holocaust survivors founded the organization in 1961 – the nation’s first Holocaust museum.
The architecturally avant guard building, designed by acclaimed LA-based architect Hagy Belzberg, is the culmination of a six-year dream, said E. Randol Schoenberg...
NOV 3, 2010
The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Wed , 3 November 2010
The new building for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) is located within a public park, adjacent to the existing Los Angeles Holocaust Memorial. Paramount to the design strategy is the integration of the building into the surrounding open, park landscape. The museum is submerged into the ground allowing the park’s landscape...
NOV 2, 2010
REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST
Dedication Ceremony for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Los Angeles - Fifty years ago, a group of Holocaust survivors were brought together by fate at Hollywood High School while learning to speak English. They shared their stories and discovered that each of them had different artifacts from the Holocaust era. They decided that the special relics needed a permanent...
OCT 29, 2010
The Indicator: Wind Swept Dune
By Guy Horton, 29 Oct 2010
Architect Hagy Belzberg recently showed me around his latest creation, the new Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. He had kindly agreed to give me a personal tour since I was preparing to write up a review.
While I had fully intended to focus on the architecture, the site, the ideas behind the design, I was caught off-guard by something unexpected:...
OCT 28, 2010
The Hagy Belzberg-designed museum in Pan Pacific Park seems conflicted. Its elegant, rippling shapes don't seem tough enough to hold the horrors within.
By Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times Architecture Critic
October 28, 2010
Architectural symbols are rarely more layered, complex or self-aware than in a Holocaust museum, where the architect's...
OCT 26, 2010
by By Harriette Ellis
The architecture is not meant to be in competition with the massive National Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. No, there’s no intention of that. Indeed, the much smaller, but equally impressive new Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust will easily stand on its own merit, as a powerful antidote to hate and “make...
OCT 25, 2010
belzberg architects: los angeles museum of the holocaust
santa monica based office belzberg architects has finished the design of
the new los angeles museum of the holocaust (LAMOTH). now open to
the public, the museum features an undulating green roof that pulls up
the northwest corner of los angeles' pan pacific park. serving as an annex
to the already existing holocaust monument, the multi-cultural museum...
OCT 25, 2010
Holocaust survivors and members of the community interact with a multimedia table, during the opening of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMH) at the Pan Pacific Park on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, in Los Angeles. Survivors founded the museum in 1961 as a permanent repository for their personal artifacts from the Holocaust and the world the Nazis destroyed.
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The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust's 2010 video promo is now available to view on youtube. The promo was premiered at the Museum's 2010 Annual Gala Dinner on October 17, 2010.
Video courtesy of JankovicMedia 2010.
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OCT 21, 2010
Jona Goldrich was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 LA Museum of the Holocaust Dinner, held on October 17, 2010.
This short video provides a glimpse into the life of Jona.
Video courtesy of JankovicMedia 2010.
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OCT 21, 2010
Beth and Jon Kean were honored with the Next Generation Award at the 2010 LA Museum of the Holocaust Dinner, held on October 17, 2010.
This short video explores the Keans' interest in the Holocaust, and why they are passionate about the museum.
Video courtesy of JankovicMedia 2010.
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OCT 20, 2010
Pictures from our 2010 Annual Gala Dinner are now available to view on the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust's Facebook page. The dinner was held at the beautiful Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills on October 17, 2010. LAMOTH was excited to welcome 500 guests at this year's event.
Click here to view pictures from the dinner!
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OCT 20, 2010
Pictures from LAMOTH's official dedication ceremony and ribbon cutting are now available to view on Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust's Facebook page. The special ceremony was held in front of the Martyrs Memorial in Pan Pacific Park on October 14, 2010. Speakers included Executive Director, Mark Rothman and the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, Hon. Antonio Villaraigosa.
Click here to view pictures...
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OCT 20, 2010
Pictures from LAMOTH's book release party for the new publication They Shall be Counted: The Theresienstadt Ghetto Art of Erich Lichtblau-Leskly are now available at Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust's Facebook page. The release party celebrated the publication of the book and was held in the Museum on October 14, 2010.
Click here to view images from the event!
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OCT 19, 2010
LA's newest museum is the permanent home for the Holocaust Museum, a 50 year-old institution. The striking building designed by Belzberg architects features a generous green roof that acts as an extension of the adjacent Pan Pacific Park. The project was also designed to express one of the darkest moments in human history - a buried organic form greets visitors as they descend into a unique museum...
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Variate Labs designed the information, content and interaction strategy for the new LAMH. Our concept was to create one unified content experience and make it accessible, personal and seamless across many different platforms.
The first day we heard about the project, we visited the existing museum and listened to the life story of one of the survivors. We immediately knew that we wanted to play a role...
OCT 14, 2010
Generally, the most effective architectural designs make you feel welcome and comfortable. But in a museum meant to recall the horrors of the Holocaust, that mission is turned on its head. So it’s no surprise that the most emotionally resonant spaces in the new Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust are those where the rawness and constriction of the building evoke a period that the museum...
READ MOREOCT 14, 2010
PAN PACIFIC PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust held its grand opening at Pan Pacific Park Thursday.
The building was built with green space in mind, created with part of the facility underground. The high-tech building cost $18 million to create.
The building is owned by the museum, its first.
Extra space added allows more exhibits and artifacts to be displayed...
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Years after Masha Loen was liberated from a Nazi death camp, she met other Jewish genocide survivors at Hollywood High School, where they assembled a collection of photos and artifacts that became the nation's first Holocaust museum.
Forty-nine years later, the last living founder of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust will celebrate the grand opening today of its permanent home in...
READ MOREOCT 14, 2010
In grade school, Randy Schoenberg made a 12-foot-tall family tree. In college at Princeton, he led a Holocaust Remembrance Day. As a litigator, he argued all the way to the Supreme Court on behalf of Maria Altmann and ultimately recovered five Nazi-looted Klimt paintings from Austria for his client.
"A psychiatrist from Vienna once gave me an article about this syndrome called the torchbearer...
OCT 14, 2010
Southern California’s Jewish community is celebrating the new Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. It’s in the Fairfax District. Several European Consuls General attended Thursday's ribbon-cutting ceremony. KPCC’s Patricia Nazario toured the state-of-the-art facility with a Holocaust survivor from Poland.
Esther Tepper’s family is one of the museum’s major financial...
OCT 14, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hundreds of people toured the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust during its grand opening Thursday at Pan Pacific Park.
The museum, founded in 1961, has been moved four times over the years, but never had its own building and has always had limited space. But its new $18 million, high-tech, very green museum changes all that, executive director Mark Rothman said.
The...
READ MOREOCT 14, 2010
When I began working in the Jewish community in 2002, my colleagues at the Israeli Consulate General told me that there were two things that united every Jew in the city: a war involving Israel and the Holocaust. After attending this morning’s public dedication of LA’s relocated Museum of the Holocaust (the nation’s oldest), I’m tempted to scratch that last one off the...
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The last time Randy Schoenberg, grandson of the famous composer, made headlines, he was the lawyer representing L.A. resident Maria Altmann in her attempts -- ultimately successful -- to recover five Nazi-looted Klimt paintings.
"Yes, it was the case of a lifetime," he says, describing the seven-year journey that took him to the U.S. Supreme Court and then into binding arbitration in Austria....
OCT 13, 2010
That said, it is hard not to conclude that the building’s underground location also has deeper significance. In one sense, the building’s self-effacing character might be seen as reflecting an assimilationist reflex on the part of L.A.’s Jewish community. After all, some of the city’s most important Jewish institutions, such as the Museum of Tolerance and the Skirball...
OCT 6, 2010
Next weekend, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust publicly opens the plate-glass doors of its brand-new home at the northwest corner of Pan Pacific Park for the first time. Observant visitors might be drawn to the building’s grass-covered roof, or the retro-futuristic shape of the windows, or the repeated use of triangles in a design that seems to nod to the six three-sided black pillars...
READ MOREOCT 6, 2010
If the Museum of Tolerance (completed in 1993) was, as founder Rabbi Marvin Hier is fond of saying, designed for “the MTV Generation,” then the new Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (completed in 2010) is, for better and worse, the museum for the children of Facebook.
The permanent installation at the Museum of Tolerance uses video, audio and creatively lit dioramas to tell the story...
READ MORESEP 30, 2010
Sign up for our Grand Opening Week of Events here:
http://www.lamoth.org/the-museum/opening-celebrations/
READ MORESEP 28, 2010
After more than half a century, the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum is finally opening in its own, permanent location: nestled into the hills of Pan Pacific Park. The Wire got an exclusive tour of the museum as they prepare to officially open their doors on October 14th.
http://www.jewishla.org/blog/entry/new-holocaust-museum-opening-take-a-virtual-tour-via-video/
READ MORESEP 1, 2010
We are featured in the September issue of The Jewish Journal: http://www.jewishjournal.com/fall_preview/article/a_new_holocaust_museum_pushes_toward_the_future_20100831/
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AUG 27, 2010
View new pictures of landscaping planted around the Museum, including olive trees for the Garden of the Righteous on our Facebook page!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Los-Angeles-CA/Los-Angeles-Museum-of-the-Holocaust/21974357465#!/album.php?aid=204217&id=21974357465&ref=mf
READ MOREAUG 9, 2010
Construction Update: Check our our new photos and video on our Facebook page!
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JUN 24, 2010
MAY 24, 2010
View new photos and video of our construction site for our new Museum building at our Facebook page:
Scheduled construction tours are the best way to appreciate the new building’s breathtaking design. Contact Amy Cabranes, Development Director, (323)651-9915
READ MOREAPR 28, 2010
Film has become one of the most powerful international languages and tools for learning history. It has become paramount that we begin to interpret the Holocaust through the moving image. In light of this notion, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust invited filmmakers of all ages to submit entries into the 2nd annual short film competition.
This year's theme was "Memory, Tragedy, and Truth". Contestants...
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APR 27, 2010
Painful memories of the past
By Bill Hess
Sierra Vista Herald
FORT HUACHUCA — For nearly three years his name was a number — 110362.
Treated as a criminal, Albert Rosa said the six-digit number was a way to take away his human identity.
“It was my name,” Rosa said Wednesday, as he looked down on the faded blue tattoo on his left arm.
One would think the striped uniform he wore...
APR 6, 2010
Are you a Holocaust avoider? Not a denier, just someone like me who struggles with thinking about destruction, death and genocide.
Do you sometimes catch yourself thinking, “Can’t I just think about this another time?”
Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is observed on April 12; what should you do?
There are lectures, symposia and memorial concerts. You could attend a service...
READ MOREMAR 23, 2010
The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles handed out cuts to all of the organizations it supports in the 2010 budget approved Feb. 18, a result of a challenging fundraising year and some changes by the new president, Jay Sanderson.
Sanderson, who took his post Jan. 3, had delayed final approval on the $45.8 million budget while he reviewed...
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FEB 23, 2010
Or perhaps you are “Second Generation Kinder”?
Michele Gold is working with Gabriella Karin, a Holocaust Survivor and an artist – who is creating a train sculpture as a tribute to the Children Survivors that were saved by the Kindertransports. Gabriella & Michele are looking to receive as many childhood photographs of Survivors from the Kindertransports as possible to insert into this train...
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FEB 17, 2010
Contractors poured the cement forming the new Museum’s entrance ramp. Visitors to the construction site may now enter the building just as the thousands of students and adults will do once the Museum is complete this summer. This significant and exciting step makes it possible to experience the inter-relationship between the green roof, the Museum entrance, and the Holocaust Monument as intended...
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FEB 2, 2010
The new Museum building hosted its first high-level delegation when Executive Directors, Curators, and other officials attending the Council of American Jewish Museums conference walked through the Museum.
Executive Director Mark Rothman welcomed the more than 50 conference participants. “This is a kind of shecheyanu moment,” Mark said, referring to the prayer traditionally recited on...
READ MOREJAN 18, 2010
Site’s planners say it won’t conflict with Museum of Tolerance.
By David Haldane
Up Front Los Angeles Business Journal
A now-obscure museum of Holocaust exhibits and artifacts in
an office building on Wilshire Boulevard is about to become far more
conspicuous.
A 29,000-square-foot facility for the Los Angeles Museum of
the Holocaust is well along in construction at Pan Pacific Park,...
DEC 15, 2009
Several European nations, through their Los Angeles Consuls General, committed to planting trees in the new Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust’s Garden of the Righteous. The Garden, planned to be located near the existing Monument, will memorialize the Righteous Gentiles of sponsoring countries.
Each sponsoring nation’s $5,000 commitment to the Museum’s Capital Campaign will be...
READ MORESEP 25, 2009
LOS ANGELES, CA - Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust announced today it selected Academy Award winning Producer Branko Lustig as its honoree at its 2nd Annual Dinner. The Museum will also confer a Lifetime Achievement Award upon Dr. Andreas Maislinger, founder and chairman of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service, and the 2009 Student of the Year Award on Samuel A. Rauch, a senior at Dartmouth College...
READ MOREJAN 25, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CA – Mayor Antonio Villaraigrosa and the Holocaust survivors who founded the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust today commemorated the 63rd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by breaking ground for the Museum’s permanent home. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, Councilman Tom Labonge, and other Museum representatives also participated in the ceremony, which was...
READ MORENOV 14, 2007
LOS ANGELES, CA - The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust received its largest donation to date yesterday, a $3 million donation from the Schoenberg Family Charitable Gift Fund of Schwab Charitable Fund through the generosity of E. Randol and Pamela Schoenberg. The donation became possible after the City of Los Angeles and the city’s oldest Holocaust Museum signed a lease agreement allowing the...
READ MOREAUG 20, 2007
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust has filed an appeal challenging a visa denial by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (“USCIS”).
USCIS denied a visa last month to a young English-speaking Austrian man, Valentin Hofer, who elected to fulfill his national service requirement by volunteering at...
AUG 9, 2007
LOS ANGELES, CA – Thanks to a Museum for America grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) will be able to organize and restructure its vast Archive for the benefit of the community, students, and scholars.
The Archive Project will permit the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust to thoroughly assess its Archive and complete...
JUN 26, 2007
Los Angeles City Council Approves Lease Agreement for Holocaust Museum in Pan Pacific Park Led by Member Tom LaBonge (District 4), the Los Angeles City Council today voted unanimously to recommend signing a lease with Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (“LAMH”). The lease will allow LAMH to construct a permanent home in Pan Pacific Park for its exhibits and archives devoted to Holocaust commemoration...
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