Month: October 2020

My Story – Michael Weiss

By: Michael Weiss, Holocaust Survivor –  My name is Michael Weiss. I am a Holocaust survivor. I was born in November 1924 in Kaszony, a little village in the Carpathian…

A Michigan Eyewitness to the Nuremberg Trials

By: HMC Editorial Staff – The HMC Library Archives include a multitude of interesting and unique collections. One of those is the papers of Ruth Tryon, secretary to Chief Justice…

1 in 6,000,000

By: Aliza Tick, Education Specialist –  The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. In addition…

An Heirloom Of Remembrance

By: Isaac Vineburg, Digital Media Associate – In the summer of 2020, in the thrall of a pandemic, I got married in a small, socially-distant ceremony held in the front…