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Remembering the Spiritual Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto

JL;DR SUMMARY The Amud Aish Memorial Museum in Brooklyn offers a unique perspective on Holocaust education by focusing on spiritual resilience rather than physical resistance. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityOrthodox JudaismHolocaust EducationFaithWarsaw GhettoPersecutionSpiritual ResilienceAmud Aish Memorial MuseumSpiritual Heroism

Places mentioned

Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which began on April 19, 1943 and lasted until May 16, is the example typically referred to when discussing physical resistance."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Nestled in a farflung corner of Brooklyn, New York is the Amud Aish Memorial Museum, a relatively new Holocaust museum that takes an entirely different approach to presenting the terrifying years of 1939 to 1945."
Monsey, New York, United States
"Students from the girls division of Yeshiva of Spring Valley in Monsey, New York looking at sefarim from pre-war Europe at an exhibit at the Amud Aish Memorial Museum."
Far Rockaway, New York, United States
"Middle school students from Yeshiva Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway, New York examining the tefillin that Mauthausen inmate Rabbi Yitzchok Avigdor used in the concentration camp from 1944 to 1945."
Czechia
"During her presentation, the speaker spoke of her mother, a deaf survivor from Czechoslovakia."
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