Century City lawyer Donald Etra has been appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council by President Bush, a close friend since their undergraduate days at Yale.
Questions arising from the role of laws and the judiciary during the Holocaust are now being studied at dozens of American universities and in military academies, Dr. Michael Berenbaum said.
The rent is paid through December. After that, no one knows where — or if — the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust will have a home.
While not every piece is to my liking, every work in the show has a point.
You\’ve seen it in movies, television, even as the engine behind some fundraising efforts: the crass commercialization of the Holocaust. Dr. Gary Schiller is very aware of this phenomenon.
It\’s starting with a few tentative steps, but it could eventually become a stampede; lawmakers on Capitol Hill may soon consider pending legislation creating a national museum focusing heavily on the issue of American slavery.
The movement to create a new museum of African American history provides an opportunity to help mend the rift between Jews and blacks, but also presents a potential dilemma: the effort will inevitably lead to comparisons between slavery and the Holocaust.
Dr. Gary Schiller, chairman of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, believes that the future of intelligent, dignified Holocaust scholarship lies not in the hands of the Jewish community, but beyond it.
Vienna\’s Holocaust Memorial in the inner city\’s Judenplatz was unveiled in a simple but moving ceremony last Wednesday.
Dr. Gary J. Schiller is an associate professor at UCLA, so perhaps it is not surprising that the new chairman of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust puts education and research at the top of his agenda.Schiller\’s accession also marks a generational change.
In the words of its mission statement, the museum will be a \”world center to heighten consciousness and a catalyst to enhance sensitivity on issues of human dignity and responsibility. It will seek to promote civility and respect among Jews, and between people of all faiths and creeds.\”
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