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

http://db.yadvashem.org/deportation/search.html?language=en

“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