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Swedish Holocaust museum, slated for a 2022 opening, to be based in Stockholm
January 28th, 2021 
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No Comments »Tehran museum to reopen with works by artists who protested Vietnam War
January 28th, 2021 Awake Goy TEHRAN – The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA), which was under restoration for over two years, will reopen on Thursday with an exhibition displaying works by a number of Western photographers and conceptual artists who protested against the Vietnam War. Artworks by Dennis Oppenheim, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Edward Ruscha and several […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: artists, museum, protested, reopen, Tehran, Vietnam, works No Comments »Building a unique Holocaust museum at Babyn Yar
January 27th, 2021 Awake Goy It is the site of one of the most infamous massacres of World War II, yet the precise location of the murders remained hidden until recently. Almost eighty years have passed since the sunny September day when thousands of Jews were ordered to a ravine near Kyiv with their belongings. Yet, despite its notoriety, no […]
Government grants $750,000 to the Canberra Holocaust Museum and Education Centre
January 27th, 2021 Awake Goy Browse > Home / News / Government grants $750,000 to the Canberra Holocaust Museum and Education Centre January 27, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk Read on for article The Morrison Government is providing $750,000 towards the establishment of the Canberra Holocaust Museum and Education Centre. Veronica Leydman, Josh Frydenberg and Alan Tudge at the National Jewish […]
Posted in News Tags: Canberra, centre, education, government, Grants, Holocaust, museum No Comments »Holocaust museum accused of allegedly smuggling artifacts out of Warsaw
January 27th, 2021 Awake Goy The city of Warsaw has accused an Israeli Holocaust museum of being involved in the smuggling out of Poland of Jewish prayer artifacts that the museum said were found inside an old bunker in the Polish capital. The Shem Olam museum near Hadera announced this week that it had obtained 10 sets of tefillin, a […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: accused, allegedly, artifacts, Holocaust, museum, smuggling, Warsaw No Comments »Pfizer CEO Dr. Bourla to join Jewish Heritage Museum in virtual event
January 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy The Chairman and CEO of Pfizer, Dr. Albert Bourla will join the the Jewish Heritage Museum – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust – which is hosting a live zoom event with him on February 18th as a part of the museum’s new series “Legacies”, which highlights notable people who share a connection to Jewish […]
60,000 relics being re-arranged, documented in Iranian museum
January 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy TEHRAN – Some 60,000 relics and historical objects are being documented to be put in the right order in the Great Museum of Khorasan, which is located in Mashhad, northeast Iran. “60,000 historical objects are being documented and re-arranged in the Great Museum of Khorasan,” CHTN quoted the deputy tourism minister, Mohammad-Hassan Talebian, as saying […]
Petroleum museum to be established in southwest Iran
January 19th, 2021 Awake Goy TEHRAN –A petroleum museum is scheduled to be established in the city of Gachsaran, southwestern Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, the provincial tourism chief has announced. The museum will be set up in an area of 12 hectares, and is planned to display the old tools, equipment, and objects related to the discovery and production of […]
Trump baby blimp lands at London museum
January 18th, 2021 Awake Goy A blimp depicting US President Donald Trump as a snarling, nappy-wearing orange baby has found a home in one of London’s most popular museums. The helium-filled balloon, originally paid for through crowdfunding, first took to the skies over London during protests against Trump’s visit in 2018 and has flown in other locations including France, Argentina, […]
First Holocaust museum to be inaugurated in Oporto, Portugal
January 13th, 2021 Awake Goy The first-ever Holocaust museum will open in Portugal’s second-largest city of Oporto next Wednesday, marking a historic moment for Holocaust education in the area. The new museum will start with a ceremony on January 20 opened by Dias Ben Zion, president of the Jewish community of Oporto and Mayor Rui Moreira. The ceremony will have many […]
Portugal to open first Holocaust Museum
January 13th, 2021 Awake Goy The city of Porto will become the first city in Portugal to have a museum honoring the Holocaust which is meant to open on January 20 with Mayor Rui Moreira and President of the local Jewish Community Dias Ben Zion. Portugal didn’t participate in the Second World War and accepted roughly 50,000 Jewish refugees, yet […]
AOC condemns Confederate flag raised outside Jewish Heritage Museum
January 11th, 2021 Awake Goy Within her statement, the Democratic representative called out white supremacists directly for the crimes committed on Thursday, while firming a call to stand by her Jewish constituents and neighbors Source
Posted in Jewish News Tags: condemns, confederate, heritage, Jewish, museum, outside, raised No Comments »‘Hate at our doorstep’: Confederate flag tied outside NYC Holocaust museum
January 9th, 2021 Awake Goy JTA — A Confederate flag was found tied to the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City on Friday morning. The incident comes less than two days after a Confederate flag was brought into the US Capitol by a member of the mob that stormed it Wednesday. […]
Confederate flag found tied to front door of N.Y.C. Holocaust museum
January 9th, 2021 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Amid Capitol riots, confederate flag found on Jewish Heritage Museum door
January 9th, 2021 Awake Goy A Confederate flag was tied to the front door of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on Thursday night. The museum released a statement connecting between “these horrific acts of emboldened antisemitism” and the events that unfolded at the US Capitol earlier this week, which included far-right activists and […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: capitol, confederate, found, heritage, Jewish, museum, riots No Comments »Survivor talks at the Sydney Jewish Museum resume
December 23rd, 2020 Awake Goy December 23, 2020 by Community newsdesk Read on for article Talks by Holocaust survivors will resume in the Sydney Jewish Museum over the summer period. Survivors will give ticketed talks on Tuesdays and Thursdays in December and January as well as survivors on the floor of the museum talking to visitors on Wednesdays in January. Survivor […]
Trump names Rudy Giuliani’s son, two other aides to Holocaust Museum Council
December 17th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
US Holocaust museum launches program on Jews who fled to Iran from Nazis
December 8th, 2020 Awake Goy The US Holocaust Memorial Museum, in partnership with the Chautauqua Institution, will launch starting Tuesday a jointly presented online program on Iran’s connection to Jews who escaped the Holocaust.Taking the form of a two-part online live event and titled “The Tehran Children: Iran’s Unexpected & Suppressed Connection to the Holocaust,” the presentation is inspired by […]
My Holocaust museum’s fitting exhibit on response to George Floyd
December 1st, 2020 Awake Goy The Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida knows it’s doing something right when its work draws the ire of detractors. When we bring in traveling exhibits to complement our permanent Holocaust exhibit, our goal is to identify the common thread that ties the past to the present. As a result, we promote thoughtful reflection […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: exhibit, fitting, floyd, george, Holocaust, museum, response No Comments »Holocaust Museum Head Explains How The Complete Lack of Physical Evidence Of The Holocaust Is Proof It Happened
November 29th, 2020 Awake Goy Here we have an interview with Ephraim Kaye, a director at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Israel — using classic Orwellian double-think — in which he attempts to explain how the complete lack of physical evidence to support the official Holocaust narrative is actually proof that the Holocaust happened. In essence, he’s admitting that Holocaust […]
Riga Holocaust Museum at risk of closing over new lease concerns
November 25th, 2020 Awake Goy The Shamir Association, that operates the Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum, expressed concern about a lease offered to them by the Riga City Council, saying it cannot sign the new lease. The association is concerned that that lease contains provisions that enable the council to make changes to the museum and show that the […]
Amsterdam’s Jewish museum wades into Dutch blackface controversy
November 25th, 2020 Awake Goy AMSTERDAM – For the past two decades, a conflict has been slowly escalating in the Netherlands over the wintertime custom of wearing blackface ahead of St. Nicholas Day, the pre-Christmas festival honoring the saint who inspired Santa Claus. Opponents of the custom say the portrayal of the saint’s sidekick, Black Pete, in processions and parties […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Amsterdam, blackface, controversy, dutch, Jewish, museum, wades No Comments »Fury Erupts as George Floyd Exhibit Opens at Holocaust Museum
November 24th, 2020 Awake Goy The Holocaust Museum in Florida has come under fire after announcing the opening of an exhibition concerning George Floyd, the man whose death in police custody sparked widespread rioting earlier this year. Orlando 6 reports that “A new exhibit at the Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center in Maitland features powerful and inspiring photos taken in the […]
Killer Dueling Dinosaurs Fuel Major Museum Project
November 19th, 2020 Awake Goy American history is peppered with famous duels. On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton, the former secretary of the treasury and leading federalist, squared up with Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson´s vice president. On the other end of the cultural scale the movie “ Deliverance” made “ Dueling Banjos ” a smash hit in ’72 AD. However, […]
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Fraud
November 2nd, 2020 Awake Goy U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Fraud USHMM displays standard German air-raid shelter door, describing it as the door to a gas chamber at Majdanek By David Thomas Published: 1997-07-12 A standard air-raid shelter door is displayed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum along with the claim that it is a casting of the door to a […]
Facing outcry, Jerusalem’s Islamic art museum asks Sotheby’s to postpone auction of rare artifacts
October 27th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Posted in Jewish News Tags: facing, islamic, Jerusalem, museum, outcry, postpone, sotheby No Comments »German Museum Attacks Seem Inspired by Conspiracy Theorists
October 22nd, 2020 Awake Goy Authorities are stunned, after a series of German museum attacks on priceless historic artifacts and artworks. A liquid has been smeared on famous exhibits at three renowned Berlin museums. It is believed that the attacks are linked to bizarre conspiracy theories, spread by right-wing activists. They have spread an idea that the museums are linked to […]
Man arrested over swastikas sprayed near Louvre museum in Paris
October 12th, 2020 Awake Goy PARIS, France — Paris authorities on Sunday arrested a man suspected of spraying swastikas on columns near the world-famous Louvre museum in the city’s historic center, prosecutors said. The red paint swastikas were spotted along the upscale Rue de Rivoli artery in central Paris early on Sunday morning, leading passers-by to post pictures on social media. Security […]
Auschwitz museum head asks to swap spots with Nigerian boy jailed for blasphemy
September 26th, 2020 Awake Goy JTA — In a letter to Nigeria’s president, the head of Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum asked to be jailed in exchange for the release of a teenager imprisoned for blasphemy. Piotr Cywiński’s appeal on Friday — a highly unusual intervention in subjects that are not immediately connected to the Holocaust — concerns the case […]
Jerusalem’s Islamic art museum says it has to auction off part of its collection
September 24th, 2020 Awake Goy Facing financial pressure, Jerusalem’s L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art will sell part of its storied collection in October through Sotheby’s London. Nearly 200 objects of Islamic art from the museum’s storage and 60 clocks and watches from its permanent collection will be sold on October 27 and 28 in order to enhance the museum’s […]
