Displaced: A Holocaust Memoir and the Road to a New Beginning

Displaced is Linda Schwab’s Holocaust memoir, a retelling of her experience surviving 18 months in a man-made cave, another year as an exile in Poland and Germany, and three years as a refugee in a displaced persons camp. Just six years old when a band of Nazi soldiers arrived in her tiny shtetl in Myadel, Poland, Linda observed atrocities no child ever needs to witness. With her parents and two brothers, during the summer of 1942, Linda was forcibly relocated into a ghetto where most of the Jewish men were led to the nearby forest and killed in a pogrom.

Live Another Day by Michael Edelstein

Our showcase project is the interactive web presentation of a personal memoir by Holocaust survivor Michael Edelstein. Walter and Dan Ruby were the co-authors of the book and producer of the website. Standout features of the site include an interactive index to 250 people, places and events mentioned in the book and a series of 18 readings from the book by acclaimed Yiddish actor Avi Hoffman. Slideshows of historic images, interactive maps and a weekly blog are among the other site components.

Mona Lisa

The painting is thought by many to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, and is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel. It had been believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506; however, Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517. Recent academic work suggests that it would not have been started before 1513. It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic, on permanent display at the Louvre Museum in Paris since 1797.