Interviewing the New Orleans Holocaust Survivors
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience 818 Howard Ave, New Orleans, Louisiana 70113
John Menszer's decades-long effort to document the lives of Holocaust survivors in New Orleans began in 1993 as a photography project and evolved into a respected traveling exhibition and website; his collection of photographs and interviews with Holocaust Survivors are featured in the Museum’s current exhibition, Holocaust Survivors in a New Land: The New Americans Social Club of New Orleans. His method of documenting survivors' stories—returning for clarification, photographing survivors in their homes, and supporting them as they revisited painful memories—created deep personal bonds and what he described as an “extended family.” In this program, Menszer will take us beyond the exhibit and into the living rooms of the survivors as he was conducting the interviews and will present selected outtakes from his interviews, audio clips, family photos, documentary photographs and ephemera from his collection. 6 pm. Free in person or online, with donation requested and registration required at msje.org.
