Is Open Access a Moral Obligation
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Is Open Access a Moral Obligation?
Dr. Haim Gertner
Archives Division
Yad Vashem
Gathering the Fragments
Shalom Dr. Haim Gertner
My name is Lea Weinberg, currently I live in NY
My friend Ayalah Podwall participated this summer, June 2012, in Yad Vashem 8th Holocaust conference. It was unbelievable that she has chosen your lecture and heard you telling my mother's story (how she found 8 family photos in Auschwitz, and was hiding them inside a sandwich).
I would like to thank you so much for telling about my mother Paula Fried in your lectures. It was so emotional for me to hear about the lecture. I cried and also felt good, because my mother wanted the world to know her story, that's why she gave the photos to Yad Vashem.
Eight months later, on January 2012, my mother passed away. She survived the holocaust but didn't survive the cancer…
Thanks a lot for your time
Lea Weinberg
“Memory is
the only paradise
from which
one can not
be expelled.” Eliezer Gandverger, Mogilev, 30 January, 1944
YV Archives
January 2013
154,000,000 Documents
420,000 Photographs
112,000 Testimonies
2,600,000 Pages of
Testimony
Latvia
Mr. (?) Grinman, Page of Testimony, 1957
Request for Veterinarian Studies, Riga,1921
Student, Teachers Seminar, Riga, 1922
Passport, 1924
Headmaster, Jewish school, Liepaja 1938
House Committee , Peldu 51/Liepu 3, Liepaja 1938
German Population Census, Liepaja, August 1941
Ber (Boris) Grinman, Ludza-Riga-Liepaja, 1901-1941
“ver-giß-mein-nicht”
“don’t forget me”
@alodium Today I submitted my family’s documents to Yad Vashem’s project “Gathering the Fragments” in Tel Aviv so that they will be available to future generations and not be lost. Their place in history is in the future.
“The worth and importance of an institution are not to be estimated by what it accumulates within the walls of its building, but by what it
sends forth to the world.”
JOSEPH HENRY (1852) First Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Is Open Access a Moral Obligation?
Dr. Haim Gertner
Archives Division
Yad Vashem