If you’ve been meaning to get over to the Maltz Museum in Beachwood now is the time. To mark Genocide Awareness Month, admission is free throughout the month of April, thanks to the Ohio Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission.
Currently on view through April 28 is The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka, a show featuring journal entries written by a 14-year-old Jewish girl living in Poland’s Lodz Ghetto during World War II. from the Lodz Ghetto. She lost her family; unlike Anne Frank, her ultimate fate is unknown although chances are she too was killed, given that her diary was found at Auschwitz-Birkenau after the war. The exhibition reconstructs her surrounding and the situation she faced.
Be sure to visit the Maltz Museum’s permanent exhibits as well. An American Story tells the story of Jewish immigrants to Cleveland, their struggles, the lives they made for themselves here and their contributions to business, culture, philanthropy, education and the arts — a story that has much in common with other immigrant groups.
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