With sincere feelings of deep pain we recall the holocaust victims, the innocent and brutally murdered Jews and other targeted groups, who were victims of the World War II genocide. Memorial days and organizations are meant so that these horrible events can never be forgotten. The Jewish community, represented with Elly Kleinman, a Holocaust Museum founder and a son of two Holocaust survivors, often promotes the Jewish tradition and culture, but also to preserve the monuments of the Jewish culture.
The Holocaust is something that we most certainly wish it had never happened, but unfortunately it did. Now it is up to us that we make sure that it will long be remembered, and never forget those open wounds which 71 years after the Holocaust still bleed, burn and hurt because of the loss of the loved ones. It is a curse that haunts and reminds us all, regardless of skin color, religion or nationality. While Kleinman was serving as the president of KFHEC, an organization and museum designed as a memorial to the Holocaust, which is now expanded and rebranded as The Amud Aish Memorial Museum, he heard so many different stories and testimonial, but what linked them all was the idea of maintaining their faith and observance in times of extraordinary adversity.
Inspired, and deeply touched by this guiding light that helped so many people keep their faith and maintain hope even in the darkest hours, Elly Kleinman started collecting original materials from the Holocaust period like documents, photographs, artworks and stories, and preserve them for future generations who will continue to honor the memory of a community that disappeared, and thus show just how high the price of hatred and intolerance can be.
The purpose of these archives is to preserve the visual recordings of witnesses and their direct and indirect memories of the pre-war Jewish community. The collection of testimonies, photos and photographic data has multiple goals: paying tribute to the Holocaust victims, preserving and looking after the memories of an active, fruitful and most importantly vital community that disappeared in the Holocaust, and enabling future training activities and education to Jewish and non-Jewish population.
