Preserving unique stories and the legacy of genocide
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remain healthy and relevant.
This year, we accepted five new collections into the museum’s permanent holdings with materials from New Mexico Holocaust survivors, Albuquerque civil rights activists, currency from the Łodz ghetto, and unpublished liberation photographs. Over 150 new records were added to our catalog as well as the release of the New Mexico Holocaust Survivors and the New Mexico Human Rights Coalition collections. The online collections saw nearly 850 searches while our interactive digital artifacts, such as the Almanac Shanghai 1946/47 , had nearly 700 (680) users. The NMHIM collections also contributed artifacts from our Werner Gellert Collection to support the student developed exhibit Routes to Roots . The exhibit looks at issues surrounding immigration and refugee communities in New Mexico. In addition to current events, the exhibit features artifacts from the collections that related to NMHIM founder Werner Gellert’s time as part of the Shanghai Jewish refugee community during the Holocaust.
As we look forward to next year, we will continue to find new ways to share our collections and ensure the stories behind our holdings are
Almanac Shanghai 1946/47 gives us a glimpse into life in the ghetto through a chronicle created by and for the Jewish refugee community. Even under difficult conditions, the cultural and social life of the Shanghai refugee community flour- ished. Read the entire almanac here.
honored and remembered. As always, we are eager to hear from those interested in the NMHIM collections. Please reach out to us at any time with questions or feedback. nmhim- collections@nmhim.org. An enormous thank you to the NMHIM collections committee: Lyn Berner, Molly French, Nathan Johnson, Sheri Karmiol, Lane Leckman, and Lewis Twite.
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