Opening of Cuba's First Permanent Holocaust Exhibit, December 2011

From Left: Salamon Gonte-Liederman, and Exhibit coordinator William Miller.

Simon Goldstein, whose story is part of the Exhibit, stands in front of a wall that bears his image (second from left).

Inside the Exhibit, “We Remember: The Holocaust and the Creation of a Living Community,” which includes testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s archive.

Professor José Altshuler’s testimony (on-screen) is part of the Exhibit.

From left: Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center; Heather Maio, Conscience Display (Exhibit design company); Stan Falkenstein, President of the Jewish Cuba Connection; Stephen D. Smith, Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.

The first permanent Exhibit about the Holocaust, displayed in Cuba, opened on December 18 at the Centro Sephardi (Sephardic Center) in Havana. The Exhibit, We Remember–The Holocaust and the Creation of a Living Community, shines a light on the Cuban Jewish experience of the Holocaust and raises awareness that a small Jewish community makes Cuba its home. press release

Album posted on: December 21, 2011