This exhibition was made possible by support from: Allegheny Regional Asset District David and Mary Tannenbaum Holocaust Center Exhibits Endowment Fund The Jack & Sara Gordon Holocaust…… Read more “Acknowledgements”

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“The one-woman Ellis Island of Pittsburgh”

With the dissolution of the USSR came the end of the last large wave of Jewish immigration to America.

“We had no sense of the Holocaust as we know now, with a capital H. We really didn’t understand what people were telling us.”

“Stones are now thrown everywhere and the shock of hate has disturbed almost every heart.”

Attempts to flee Europe became more desperate than ever before.

“Paper walls that meant the difference between life and death.”

A discrete search and rescue mission.