A new display has been added to the Dobrish Torah Scroll exhibit. Now visitors can not only view the Scroll and read about it, but also learn about the students' research on it in an interactive way!
To commemorate the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night when Nazis destroyed Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues and homes, over 25 community members toured the Museum.
To start the program, the elementary school choir sang "I Still Believe," a compilation of quotes from Ann Frank. The student docents then led the allies, ADL staff, parents and community members around the museum which focuses on the stories of survivors who live(d) in Indiana. We were privileged to have one of these heroes who is featured in our museum, on the tour, Dee Schwartz. On Sunday, October 13, middle schoolers representing the Jewish community of Indianapolis came together at HHAI to commemorate Kristallnacht. We welcomed students, teachers and clergy from Beth El Zedek, IHC, Congregation Shaarey Tefilla and Congregation Beth Shalom. Students learned the history of the Holocaust while getting to know each other and forming friendships with Jewish youth from other schools. Throughout the morning we focused on the importance of unity for the Jewish people and our community. The mosaic art piece the students created using shards of broken glass commemorated the Night of Broken Glass while also showing how much stronger we are when we work together. Each student's piece of mosaic will be merged together into one glass art work that will serve as a window in our Holocaust Museum. The morning also included interactive stations in the Museum with our student docents as well as a virtual escape room.
Thank you to our principal and teachers who planned and led this valuable learning experience -- Miriam Gettinger, Tricia Berg, Sarit Linkon, Michael Voskoboynik, Lori Halperin and Shana Zelikovich. We are proud to have worked with JCRC and the synagogues on this event and look forward to hosting future programs that bring us together to learn and help us fight anti-Semitism. We commemorated the anniversary of Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass, at our Holocaust Museum. Student docents led parents and community members through the interactive space which highlights stories of survivors who settled in Indiana.
Recently, a delegation from the Indianapolis Children's Museum took a tour guided by our student-docents. We have received this "Thank You" card from them.
Several New Destinations Have Been Added to the Virtual Trip to the Eastern Europe Exhibit7/26/2022 On November 9, HHAI was honored to receive the Never Again Ambassador award at the State Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony for its role in promoting ongoing communal Holocaust education through the student generated interactive museum. The award was richly deserved by our team of educators – Michael Voskoboynik, Tricia Berg, Sarit Linkon , Matt Tucker and Tzuriel Gluck who spearheaded this unique Design Thinking initiative synthesizing Technology and Engineering with research, writing and history. Significantly, students Naomi C., Megan F., and Tehilla R, were chosen to represent our Middle School students at the moving ceremony for their passionate roles and reflections in the museum creating process. As it is a ‘living museum’, new exhibits are added annually including the Scratch Art Windows depicting the lives of local survivors and their families featured at the recent JCRC Sweet Lorraine program. We express our gratitude to the Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council and Indiana Civil Rights Commission for this meaningful honor.
On November 29, HHAI Middle School students presented, for the fourth year in a row, at the largest international EdTech event, #ISTE20 LIVE conference. The theme of our presentation was "Using the Design Thinking Process to Create an Interactive Educational Museum Experience". We shared our experience of creating HHAI interactive Holocaust museum.
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The Dobříš Torah scroll came to Indianapolis around the year 1986 from London. Originally there was an application to receive a scroll in the first the Jewish Holocaust museum at HHAI but there wasn’t a physical scroll here itself. This application was present when the museum first opened in August of 1996. Everything went through the Memorial Scrolls Trust in London, an organization which purchased hundreds of scrolls saved and stored in the Prague museum during WWII.
Eventually we received a scroll, scroll number 437 through the dedicated efforts of the family of Mrs Shirley Cohen whose parents were Holocaust survivors from Hungary. The scroll is now in our school, the Hasten Hebrew Academy’s new interactive Holocaust museum
Mrs. Shirley Cohen spoke to us about the Dobříš Torah Scroll arrival to our school
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