News from the City Tech Library
This coming Sunday, December 17, is the final day to see “Americans and the Holocaust,” the 1100-square-foot exhibit that has been on view in New York City College of Technology’s Academic Building this semester. The exhibit is free and open to the public from 10:00-2:00 on the 17th. For more information, click here.
Please join us tomorrow for the final public event for the “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibit. Annie Rothstein Segan, director of the Arthur Rothstein Legacy Project, will be showing and discussing images taken by renowned photographer Arthur Rothstein in China in 1946 for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRAA). The event runs from 2:30-4:00 and is free. After the presentation, attendees will have the opportunity to see the exhibit itself. For more information, including how to register, please click here.
(image by Arthur Rothstein taken in China in 1946 and courtesy of the Library of Congress)
This week the Ursula C. Schwerin Library continues hosting and co-hosting a number of events related to the “Americans and the Holocaust” traveling exhibition. These include a virtual event via Zoom at 6:00 pm on Monday, December 4 about the 1938 Evian Conference; a virtual Zoom conversation with a scholar of immigration and his students at 10:00 am on Tuesday, December 5; and an in-person event on Thursday, December 7 at 11:30 on the Nazis and Ku Klux Klan in New York City and State. To register, please click here.
It is not too late to register for “Racism, Eugenics & Antisemitism: Connections Between Jim Crow and the Nuremberg Race Laws,” an event featuring Tom White, Coordinator of Educational Outreach at the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene (NH) State College. The program is being held here at City Tech in cooperation with Queensborough Community College’s Kupferberg Holocaust Center. The event is on Thursday November 30 and runs from 1:00-2:15. One may attend in person or online via Zoom. For more details, please click here. After the event attendees will have the opportunity to explore the two galleries.
Please note that no coats or bags will be allowed in the event or exhibit spaces and must be checked. Please enter via the Community Center, 287 Jay Street. See directions here.
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