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Scrapbook page with image of the entire “Hazomir” theater troupe posing in front of a sign for their production of “Der Wilder Mencz” (The Unusual Person), with accompanying newspaper article about the production in Yiddish at right. Eugenia Lewin/Jeanette Frank pictured middle-row center. Source: Jeanette and Kenneth Frank Papers, Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.

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Correcting the record for Jeannette Frank

Numerous projects in the recent past have recounted the lives of Holocaust survivors who immigrated…

University LibrariesOctober 8, 2024

Portrait of Dora Zaidenweber by Spanish artist Félix de la Concha for his series "Portraying Memories: Portraits and Conversations with Survivors of the Shoah."

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‘A story of resilience’: Documenting the lives of Minnesota Holocaust survivors

April 15, 1945 was a bright and sunny day at the Bergen-Belsen concentration, which felt…

Adria CarpenterMarch 14, 2024

Attendees browse the Symbolic Significance exhibit opening event on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. (Photo/Adria Carpenter)

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‘How normalized it is’: Minnesota’s history of starting the academic year on Jewish holidays

On Sept. 7, 2021, Jewish students at the University of Minnesota had to make a…

Adria CarpenterSeptember 19, 2023

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Your gift to the Jewish Archives safeguards history

“There has literally never been a more compelling moment to preserve and protect history.” —…

Mark EngebretsonAugust 15, 2022

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Partners in archiving

By Allison Campbell-Jensen Vic Rosenthal Vic Rosenthal, Jewish Community Action’s executive director from 2000 to…

markengeNovember 16, 2021

Photo taken during an open house to commemorate the Berman's gift to the University.

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Sharing roots

In 1984, what was then the Minnesota Jewish Historical Society was founded by local community…

markengeApril 19, 2021

Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives News Primary Sourcery

Putting the American Jewish World online

After a successful crowdfunding campaign, the American Jewish World newspaper is being digitized by the…

markengeFebruary 22, 2021

People viewing the Campus Divided exhibit

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Uncovering ‘A Campus Divided’

In August 2017, “A Campus Divided: Progressives, Anticommunists, Racists, and Antisemitism at the University of…

markengeDecember 3, 2020

Four generations of a Jewish women in this photo from 1937. From left: Eleanor Laurie, baby Arlene Bomberg, mother, Alyce Bomberg, and Jenny Smith. (Upper Midwest Jewish Archives)

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Saving your family history

For Archivist Kate Dietrick, a Zoom webinar on "Saving Your Family History" was a great…

markengeApril 29, 2020

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Celebrating the St. Paul JCC’s Symphony Orchestra

Each May is Jewish American Heritage Month, a month where we celebrate Jewish Americans who…

Mark EngebretsonMay 21, 2018

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Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives

Correcting the record for Jeannette Frank

‘A story of resilience’: Documenting the lives of Minnesota Holocaust survivors

‘How normalized it is’: Minnesota’s history of starting the academic year on Jewish holidays

Your gift to the Jewish Archives safeguards history

Partners in archiving

Sharing roots

Putting the American Jewish World online

Uncovering ‘A Campus Divided’

Saving your family history

Celebrating the St. Paul JCC’s Symphony Orchestra

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