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Goodfriend Collection
has impressive impact
(Special lo The Southern Israelite)
It seems particularly appropriate
during the Days of Remembrance
to update the community on the
progress of the Isaac Goodfriend
Holocaust Collection at Woodruff
Library, Emory University.
Since its inception less than
three years ago the impact of the
collection, now numbering close to
900 volumes, is impressive; as are
the archives of the Collection,
which include invaluable items
such as original documents,
unique publications, personal
diaries, original photographs,
rare maps and historic prtrs'
releases. All archival-material has
been don**«d.
This is all providing a rich
source of research material
enabling the Holocaust to be
taught at Emory in many areas.
Dr. Jack Boozer, professor of
religion, and Dr. David
Blumenthal, who occupies the Jay
and Leslie Cohen Chair of Judaic
studies, teach the Holocaust on the
undergraduate and graduate
levels. Holocaust is taught as part
of the ministerial program in the
School of Theology. A sociology
internship is being offered by Dr.
Fred Crawford, professor of
sociology, and having the
Collection as the catalyst. Dr.
Doug Unfug of the history
department is teaching a course in
Nazism.
Dr. Blumenthal and Dr. Boozer
taught a course on the Holocaust
to a large adult study class this
winter sponsored by the Bureau of
Jewish Education. The level of
interest and concern of the
students was a further indication
of the impact the Collection has
fostered.
In addition, the Center for
Research in Social Change at
Emory, under the direction of Dr.
Crawford, initiated an oral history
project “Witness To The
Holocaust" in the fall of 1978. This
project, interviewing liberators
who volunteer their testimony,
is receiving world-wide publicity
and acclaim; Dr. Crawford is
constantly requested nationwide
as a speaker by religious, civic
and other interested groups. Dr.
Blumenthal is co-director of this
project.
All taped interviews and
materials related to this project
will be at) invaluable addition to
the Goodfriend Holocaust
Collection.
Dr. Crawford has re-published a
booklet printed in 1945: “The
Seventy First Came —To
Gunskirchen Lager.” The 71st
Division, U S. Army, liberated a
little-known “hell hole” near
Mathausen Concentration Camp
on May 4, 1945. This booklet is
available to the public by
contacting the Center for Research
NEW YORK—“Volunteers of
the National Council of Jewish
Women (NCJW) initiated such
programs as the Senior . Service
Corps now the federally funded
Retired Senior Volunteer
Program—the first Golden Age
Clubs in America, monitoring of
court procedures relating to status
offenders, and nationwide surveys
of day care facilities and of the
juvenile justice system. I would
hardly call these activities
'occupational therapy' for our
members "
This statement was made by
Marjorie Merlin Cohen, NCJW
executive director, in a letter to the
editors of Lilith, responding to an
article that claimed that Jewish
women’s volunteer organizations,
including NCJW, are “sheltered
workshops, where members
experience a kind of occupational
in Social Change
Dr. Crawford is also taping
eight 30 minute programs related
to this oral history project that
will be shown in Altanta starting
May I on Channel 30.
The Goodfriend Collection has
been actively acquiring films and
slides of Holocaust art; now there
is a Ph D. student in Holocaust
Studies pertaining to art in the
Holocaust
B e cxmts e of the great
-Commitment, dedication and
cooperation of Doctors
Blumenthal, Boozer and
Crawford, Atlanta and Emory
University have become known
around the world for their interest
in furthering research and teaching
of the Holocaust.
The Isaac Goodfriend
Collection is open to anyone in the
community seeking to research the
years 1933-1945 by contacting Dr.
Blumenthal or Dr. Boozer at the
department of religion at Emory.
Donations to the Collection are
tax deductible and can be mailed
to the Religion Department,
Emory University, Atlanta,
Georgia 30322—attention Dr.
David Blumenthal.
therapy—more occupation than
therapy.”
In the article it was stated that
volunteer work as presently
practiced “reinforces rather than
heals the damage that society has
done to women,” accentuating the
fear of making decisions ^nd lack
of work discipline
“I must also differ with the
allegation that women's
volunterism is a form of
warehousing that keeps women
busy at harmless tasks that do not
challenge the power of the men in
the Jewish community," continued
Mrs. Cohen.
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