Hidden in the western wing of the University of Pittsburgh University Club is a modest library. The room is lengthy by a platform covered with a glass with a hand-painted tree, a Davidstern with a hearty interwoven and a plate that looks like a steel logo with the words “stronger than hatred” into its left side.
“Teaching from the tree of life: lighting of the way forward” is a new hiking exhibition that was created by the tree of life, the non -profit organizations and the Rauh archives of the Heinz History Center. It opens on Thursday, March 27th, at the University Club Library and remains until Friday, April 25th.
On October 27, 2018, an attacker shot 11 Jewish Anbeter – Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil Rosenthal, David Rosenthal, Bernice Simon, Sylvan Simon, Dan Stein, Melvin Wax and Nirving Younter -, New Light, New Light, New Light – L'w'Gregation – L'Anger.
In 2022, the Tree of Life meetings and parishioners formed the tree of life – a local non -profit organization that campaigns for the end of anti -Semitism. Carole Zawatsky is his CEO.
“In the core of everything we do, the memory of each of the 11 life that has been taken to us is and we are never defined by our murderer,” says Zawatsky. “We will show people that we will get up and create again given the greatest adversities.”
The exhibition shows objects that are sent to the community after the attack – of which Zawatsky says that there are “tens of thousands”.
Eric Lidji, the director of the Jewish archive Rauh, says that the 2018 archive also organizes a large number of objects that were sent to the synagogue or exhibited in the synagogue. Those who were selected at the exhibition “Lessons from the Tree of Life” were partially curated by a group of survivors and family members.
“When we put together this at the beginning of this year, we had open house meetings in which family members and survivors had the chance to look through a much larger selection and find out those who spoke to them,” says Lidji.
The new exhibition also tells the events of the shootout, examines the history of anti -Semitism in the United States and shows rendering for the upcoming 10/27 memorial, which is built in the synagogue in Squirrel Hill.
“We have put together this exhibition to show the municipality of Pittsburgh … what will open up at the corner of Shady and Wilkins [avenues]”, Says Zawatsky.
“What does it look like to remember each of the eleven victims and create a space for dynamic Jewish life? To bring the Jewish life back to the corner of Shady and Wilkins, and from the greatest tragedy – the most terrible act of anti -Semitism that has ever happened on American soil – so that we define a killer, but our history, but we, the Jewish community, the Jewish community, the Jewish community, the Jewish community, resurrect and tell our history, and tell our story and tell our history. ”
While the current display of the exhibition is determined, it will change in the course of the corn when it is opened in May, in the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Cleveland and then in autumn to New York City and next spring to New York City and Miami, Florida.
According to Lidji, every appearance will have a different central display to enable the physical space and the local connection of each event location.
“We have things that come from all over the country, so there are times when we can do it specifically where it travels,” he says. “We only work with the venue to understand what your community would like to see.”
To Michael Bernstein, chairman of the Tree of Life's Board, was one of the most powerful exhibits on the canvas on the canvas of a twisting tree, which was decorated by a group of a Colorado chapter from the B'nai B'Rith Youth organization with bright flora and fauna. According to his exhibition sign, it was one of many pieces that used a tree motif and were created in 2018.
What it signed was that it was sent to Tree of Life Congregants in 2019. The fact that someone still thinks of the community was a sign of hope a year later.
“We sometimes take it for granted and come from this community, but the way in which people reacted, the gifts that were sent, the objects and what it meant for people directly affected is an important message that we can share,” says Bernstein. “I think it shows that we will be resilient in view of the hatred, and I think we all have to hear this message – this hatred cannot win.”
According to Zawatsky, the newly designed tree of life and the 10/27 monument are about two years after completion. It will continue to serve as a religious turntable for several local communities, but also a constant exhibition of the attack, in which the exhibited artifacts are constantly rotating.
Amy Mallinger-Kelin by Rose Mallinger and co-founder of The Remember, Educate and Combate Hate (REACH), said the entry into the “Licials from the Tree of Life”, as Amy Mallinger-Kelin by Rose Mallinger and the co-founder of the “Lectures from the tree of life”, she reminded the attack. But it also raised personal history in the room, from her Bat Mizwa to services with her grandmother.
For them, these personal stories and experiences are a crucial part of the exhibitions and physical reconstruction.
“The memories of 11 are really important for all family members – remember why this has happened and why we have to build this new building – but also of their stories and who they were as humans, not only people of the shootout,” says Mallinger.