Once Upon a Time Photos: 8.21.09

The Baltimore Jewish Times publishes unidentified photographs from the collection of Jewish Museum of Maryland each week. Click here to see the most recent photo on their website. If you can identify anyone in these photos and more information about them, contact Jobi Zink, Senior Collections Manager and Registrar at 410.732.6400 x226 or jzink@jewishmuseummd.org.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 8/21/09

PastPerfect Accession #: 2009.007.001

Status: Partially Identified. Five boys "goofing around" in Druid Hill Park, c. 1945. On the left is Hy Zlotowitz (later known as Hy Zolet); in the back center is Royal Pollokoff.

Special thanks to Helene Zolet.

Once Upon a Time Photos: 8.14.09

The Baltimore Jewish Times publishes unidentified photographs from the collection of Jewish Museum of Maryland each week. Click here to see the most recent photo on their website. If you can identify anyone in these photos and more information about them, contact Jobi Zink, Senior Collections Manager and Registrar at 410.732.6400 x226 or jzink@jewishmuseummd.org.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 8/14/09

PastPerfect Accession #:1997.122.030

Status: Unidentified. Woman with child possibly at Patterson Park, n.d.

JMM Closing for Jewish Holidays

Please note that the Museum and its offices will be closed for the following holidays and dates:

Sunday, September 20 - Rosh Hashanah
Monday, September 28 - Yom Kippur
Sunday, October 4 - Sukkot
Sunday, October 11 - Simchat Torah

The Museum wishes you and yours a wonderful holiday season! Happy New Year's!

The Upstairs of Lloyd Street Synagogue has Re-Opened!

Lloyd Street Synagogue is once again open for tours at 1 and 2:30pm on Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays - as well as for private groups Sunday - Friday starting at 9:30am. The downstairs of the synagogue will not reopen until the spring when our new exhibition, The Synagogue Speaks, opens.

B'nai Israel Synagogue and our two exhibition galleries, Voices of Lombard Street: A Century of Change in East Baltimore and Drawing on Tradition: The Book of Esther, are also available to view.

The JMM is once again full price, which is free for members, $8 for adults, $4 for students, and $3 for children ages 12 and under.

Once Upon a Time Photos: 8.7.09

The Baltimore Jewish Times publishes unidentified photographs from the collection of Jewish Museum of Maryland each week. Click here to see the most recent photo on their website. If you can identify anyone in these photos and more information about them, contact Jobi Zink, Senior Collections Manager and Registrar at 410.732.6400 x226 or jzink@jewishmuseummd.org.

Date(s) run in Baltimore Jewish Times: 8/07/09

PastPerfect Accession #: 1993.029.013

Status: Partially Identified. L-R: 1. Selma Schimberg 2. Gertie Greenberg

Special thanks to Mildred Hurwitz and Phil Schimberg.

Spotlight on Holocaust Education!

It's hard to believe that we have already wrapped up hosting our fifth annual Holocaust education workshop! What started as a fairly small program has grown into a three day event in early August that included trips to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and American Red Cross Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center. The 34 participants represented a fascinating diversity of backgrounds and specialties. Here's the breakdown:

• Anne Arundel public schools: 1
• Baltimore City public schools: 6
• Baltimore County public schools: 2
• Carroll County public schools: 6
• Cecil County public schools: 2
• Frederick County public schools: 1
• Howard County public schools: 3
• Jewish schools: 3
• Archdiocese of Baltimore: 4
• Graduate students: 3
• JMM volunteers: 2
• Maryland State Department of Education administrator: 1

Here are a couple of photos from Monday at the JMM:


Dr. Nicole Dombrowski of Towson University shares their online digitized archive of materials relating to the Nuremberg Trials.



Storyteller Jennifer Rudick Zunikoff introduces students from Goucher College who have focused on learning and sharing personal testimonies.


Teachers learned about additional resources like this trunk of materials that is available to rent from the Baltimore Jewish Council.

Additionally, participants listened to survivors, watched documentaries, learned best practices from award-winning teachers, received introductions to humanitarian law and Israeli history, explored social action in contemporary situations, heard about education practices in Russia, visited exhibitions, and so much more!

Some of the overwhelmingly positive feedback that we received:

• Thanks so much for the GREAT food, excellent planning, and phenomenal resources!! I am very appreciative of this fabulous institute!!
• Thanks for everything!! Excellent job! Great info!!
• Great job, excellent resources & diversity in topics/speakers
• Wonderful workshop! One of the best I’ve ever taken.
• This was a great experience!
• This was an incredible conference! Thank you for bringing in so many terrific speakers. We learned a lot in a very short amount of time. I was impressed with the breadth of knowledge spanned by the speakers!
• Wonderful seminar – I can’t wait to take it again!

If you are interested in participating next year, please email education coordinator, Lauren Silberman, at lsilberman@jewishmuseummd.org to be notified.

A tale from the vault...

"It was 4:30pm. I was the only person left in the ed dept. and decided to use the restroom. I walked out of the office and upon seeing that the gate by the bathrooms was already pulled down and locked, I proceeded to walk through the library and around. That worked fine - until I tried to go back the way I had come and found that the double doors were locked. I was now stuck. After banging on the double doors for a moment I tried the “Exit” door and found it unlocked so I stuck a hanger in the doorjamb and exited the building. That placed me in the alley between the museum and B’nai Israel, where I quickly found that both those gates leading to the street were also locked! I hopped the wall (more appropriately, the window alcove in the brick wall) and knew that the front gate was hopeless, so I proceeded to the front of the museum where I rang the doorbell about 3 times before Esther came and found me. In addition to being bewildered as to how I came to be in a totally locked area, Esther still had to find the keys before she could get even the first set of doors open to let me back in. When she finally got to me the first thing she said (through her laughter) was, “Would you please tell me how you got out here?” to which I reiterated the story and we both had a good ol’ laugh."

Phew! Glad she made it out of that one! Go go Action Intern!