Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 6, 2007|Volume 35, Number 24

Exhibit on creation of city's Holocaust memorial features students' oral history interviews

Oral history interviews conducted by Yale students will be featured in "Memory & Legacy," a multi-media exhibit about the creation of New Haven's Holocaust memorial, which will be on view April 15-June 30 at the Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven, 360 Amity Rd. in Woodbridge.

"Memory & Legacy" tells the story of how the New Haven Holocaust Memorial, on Whalley Avenue in the Westville neighborhood of the city, came into existence. It was the first such memorial built on public land in North America. This year marks the 30th anniversary of its construction, and the New Haven Oral History Project (NHOHP) has partnered with Greater New Haven Holocaust Memory Inc., which is working on the physical restoration of the structure, to preserve the history of the monument.

The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, will be on view 7 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. An opening reception will be held on Sunday, April 29, at 4 p.m. featuring remarks by Shifra Zamkov, a Holocaust survivor who was involved with the creation of the monument, as well as Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro; Mayor John DeStefano; Doris Zelinsky, the president of Greater New Haven Holocaust Memory Inc.; and Andrew Horowitz, director of the NHOHP at Yale.

Horowitz trained and supervised Yale students Michael Brown and Leah Rubin-Cadrain, who interviewed Holocaust survivors, architects, politicians, community organizers and community activists to document the history of the monument. All the interviews are publicly accessible in the New Haven Oral History Collection, which is archived at Sterling Memorial Library at Yale.

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