Artifacts Arriving from the World
In order to develop the new center's exhibition, we have been asking for artifacts related to the Holocaust fromJewish communities all over the world. Responding to our request, new artifacts have been presented to ourcenter from Jewish people and survivors of the world. Each artifact will be an important exhibition to tell aboutthe Holocaust and the message of peace to children, and we strongly feel the large expectation from the senders.
A Torn Torah(From Rabbi Marvin Tokayer, NY, USA)The part of Book of Moses, which is an important artifact
from Warsaw Ghetto, describes how brutally it was torn byscissors or by hand.
A Coin used in a Ghetto (From Rabbi Bernard Mehlman,Boston, USA)A Yellow Star of David (Mr. Hermann Mark Lissauer,Victoria, Australia)
Mr. Lissauer kindlypresented us the Yellow
Star of David (Dutch),which he used to wear
in Netherlands when he
was a boy, by reading
the article of asking forartifacts
whichArtifacts presented to the HEC
appeared in the Jewish
newspaper in Melbourne, Australia.
He was transported to various concentration camps inEurope, and was finally liberated in Bergen Belsen byBritish Army. He moved to Australia, and now acts as an art
dealer.
Bricks of Lodz Ghetto
Ms. Rachela and Mr. Eliezer Grynfeld (Israel), survivor
from Lodz Ghetto, kindly presented us the bricks from Lodz
Ghetto.
Children Kiddush Cups (Ms. Marcia Shuster, Montreal,Canada)
Ms. Shuster presented us two silver children Kiddush cups,
which were used by her grandparents, and brought toMontreal from Russia by her parents in1926.
Menoras, Yads, and oil paintings (From Mrs. HirokoNavarsky, wife of late Mr. Victor Navarasky)

Late Mr. Victor Navarsky visited our center in June 1996,
on the occasion of the first anniversary of our center. In thecommemorative meeting, he told the children about hisexperienceofsurviving
theHolocaust, by movingfrom village to village
in Poland.
He was looking
forward for our new
Artifacts from Mr. Navarsky
center, but he passed
away in November 2004. But his wife Mrs. Hiroko
Navarsky presented us many of his belongings, such as
Menorahs and Yads from the days of the Holocaust, and also
Hanukiyas and very nice oil paintings, etc.
Collages and Books (Ms. Eugine Propp, NY, USA)Ms. Propp, a Jewish artist in NY, presented us fourcollages made from pieces of cloth, and four books
introducing her art works this September, 2006.
Ms. Propp, born in Moscow in 1922, fled to USA from
Vienna following the Nazi takeover.
Most of her family perished in theHolocaust.
She began to create collages
using domestic materials such as
fabrics from 1980. She puts theJewish images of Tallit andJerusalem delicately in her art Collage works of Ms. Proppworks, which are very colorful, andfull of imagination.
Her fabric collages will surely give lively atmosphere toour new center.

We would like to express our deep appreciations for the donations from abroad to;
Mr. Abe Roman (In memory of his late father who was a survivor. Yamaguchi, Japan),
Ms.Irma and Mr.Bob Mandel(NJ,USA), Mr.davide Hodara(Italy), Mr.Iftach Sharavi(Israel)

New HEC Building under construction
September 30, 2006, the ceremony ofplacing the corner stone of the new
Holocaust Education Center took placewith the presence of Prof. Yair Zakovitch,Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and hisfamily. November 2nd, the ceremony of
beginning the construction took place, andthe construction began from the next day.
In the first place, the construction
related to the "Underground Heat Air
Conditioning System" began, which wasto dig ten holes, 100 meters deep, to place
pipes. From December, pile driving
began, for the foundation work.

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Already, the Jerusalem stones,
which will be place in the front of thebuilding has arrived from Israel.
The topping out ceremony isscheduled to be taken place in March,and the building will be completed inAugust. The preparation of theexhibition will be done simultaneously,
and the new center will be opened on
September 30, 2007. For the opening
ceremony, Prof. Yaffa Eliach of City
University of New York, and Mr. Ben
The construction of the new HEC
Steinberg, famous composer andconductor from Tronto, Canada.