This site is a digital version of the exhibit For You Were Strangers: Jewish Immigration to Pittsburgh, 1880-1990. This original exhibit was produced by the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh and premiered in our gallery space in February 2020. By reproducing it here, we hope to give wider access to this information to the general public.

Please be sure to credit any quotes from this exhibit to the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh. Image rights are reserved and may not be reproduced without permission from their owners.

The exhibit was researched, designed, and produced by Jackie Reese, Manager at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh. If you have questions about the exhibit, please email jreese@hcpgh.org. For press inquiries, please contact Dr. Lauren Bairnsfather, Director of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, at lbairnsfather@hcpgh.org

Click here to begin the exhibit

Navigate to a certain panel:

• Panel 1: Introduction
• Panel 2: A Timeline of United States Immigration Policy
• Panel 3: Mapping Jews in Pittsburgh, 1865-1990
• Panel 4: The Major Movement of Jews to Pittsburgh
• Panel 5: The Pittsburgh Response
• Panel 6: World War I and Rising Nationalism
• Panel 7: Pittsburgh’s Response to the Rise of Hitler
• Panel 8: Escaping the Nazis
• Panel 9: Getting Out of Nazi Germany
• Panel 10: The Impact of Kristallnacht
• Panel 11: Picking Up the Pieces
• Panel 12: After the Holocaust
• Panel 13: Immigration and Organizations After 1950
• Panel 14: Conclusion: Zena Saul
• Additional Resources
• Exhibit Bibliography
• Acknowledgements