"NYC's YIVO Institute holds Jewish memories saved from destruction during the Holocaust -- What's in the Basement?" #galicia
"NYC's YIVO Institute holds Jewish memories saved >from destruction during the
Holocaust -- What's in the Basement?" https://mashable.com/video/yivo-jewish-institute/ My mother's family comes >from Skala Podolskaya in Eastern Galicia. Our JewishGen town research group has copied over 100 documents that were accumulated between 1960-2000 >from various archives. These were stored at YIVO. Tony Hausner Silver Spring, MD 20901 (primary email address: thausner@gmail.com) MODERATOR NOTE: This 14-minute video features YIVO Executive Director Jonathan Brent and staff members Eddy Portnoy and Stefanie Halpern, describing YIVO's history and unique holdings. Another video in Mashable's "What's in the Basement?" series (https://mashable.com/shows/whats-in-the-basement/) explores the "history found under the floor boards" of New York City's Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side.
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