The Alvin Sherman Library also houses NSU’s Holocaust Reflection and Resource Center, which was donated to the university by Craig and Barbara Weiner in 2016. Barbara and Craig are the co-founders of the Holocaust Learning and Education Fund, Inc., a nonprofit organization that encourages “the expansion of Holocaust education in the United States”. According to the NSU media release when the Holocaust Reflection and Resource Room was opened, written by Vera Mandilovitch from the Office of Public Relations, “the room will offer NSU students, and the general public [a place to] learn about, and to contemplate the horrendous acts that result from intolerance and hate. One of the two rooms will house a number of computers with headphones for NSU students, members of the faculty, staff and the public at large to research and watch thousands of survivor testimonies, utilize a Holocaust encyclopedia and research images, films and topics of interest linked to research museums and memorials around the world including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., Yad Vashem in Israel, the Museums at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau the Shoah Foundation and the Imperial War Museum in London”.
Starting on Oct 22, the Alvin Sherman Library will host the Visions of the Holocaust exhibit. This exhibit will feature a set of colorized images from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem the World Holocaust Remembrance Center. The images were colorized by artist Yusuf Tolga Unker.
“The vast majority of images that were taken in the 1930s and 1940s were black and white images. Very often, what people will do is look at them say how sad and they will continue walking. On the other hand, when you put these pictures in color, the images become far more impactful to the viewer. You end up having the emotion and the feeling that the people in those images would want you to have,” said Craig Wiener. “It’s an extraordinary exhibit. There has been no exhibit like this in South Florida in the past. ”
