Cultural institutions in Second Life
Dr. Susan Jennifer Hazan - 12.10.09
"The Library 2.0 has been working with the Library of Congress on a Declaration of
Independence display that was officially announced and which opened on Info Island in
Second Life. The exhibit includes dioramas, streamed audio, text in the form of largerthan-life documents and SL notecards, information kiosks and even period furniture."
Staatliche
Kunstsammlungen,
Dresden
Old Masters Picture Gallery of the Dresden
State Art Collections
Karl Louis Preusser
(1845 - 1902)
The Dresden Gallery, 1881
Staatliche
Kunstsammlungen
Dresden
Old Masters Picture Gallery of the
Dresden State Art Collections
The Splo – The Exploratorium
The Splo – The Exploratorium
The Splo – The Exploratorium
The Sistine Chapel
Vassar College, NY, US
The Sistine Chapel
Vassar College, NY, US
The Sistine Chapel
Vassar College, NY, US
http://www.vassar.edu/headlines/2007/sistine-chapel.html
The Sistine Chapel
Vassar College, NY, US
http://www.vassar.edu/headlines/2007/sistine-chapel.html
The Sistine Chapel
Vassar College, NY, US
http://www.vassar.edu/headlines/2007/sistine-chapel.html
The Sistine Chapel
Vassar College, NY, US
Second Louvre, Thompson Island
Second Louvre, Thompson Island
Second Louvre, Thompson Island
Second Louvre, Thompson Island
Starry Night – Vincent’s Second Life
Starry Night – Vincent’s Second Life
United States Holocaust
Museum, Washington
United States Holocaust Museum, Washington
United States Holocaust
Museum, Washington
Curator: Enter the newsroom in front of you to begin the
experience. Review the bulletin boards, and when you are
ready to continue, click the yellow dossier folder...
Curator: Welcome to Witnessing History. You are entering an
environment focused on a single event – Kristallnacht (The
Night of Broken Glass).
Here, you will take the role of a journalist, recalling the
testimony of eyewitnesses as you investigate what happened
during the November 1938 pogroms.
KRISTALLNACHT: A NATIONWIDE POGROM
November 9-10, 1938
"Kristallnacht: Night of Broken Glass“
Kristallnacht refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938
throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied by
German troops.
Encouraged by the Nazi regime, rioters burned or destroyed 267 synagogues, vandalized or looted 7,500 Jewish
businesses. and killed at least 91 Jewish people. They also damaged many Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools,
and homes as police and fire brigades stood aside. Kristallnacht (“Crystal Night” or “Night of Broken Glass”) owes its
name to the shards of shattered glass that lined German streets in the wake of the pogrom – broken glass from the
windows of synagogues, homes, and Jewish-owned businesses plundered and destroyed during the violence.
It was a turning point in history. The pogroms marked an intensification of Nazi anti-Jewish policy that would
culminate in the Holocaust – the systematic, state-sponsored murder of Jews.
IMAGE CAPTIONS:
(From Left to Right Image):
1. View of the destroyed interior of the Hechingen synagogue the day after Kristallnacht.
2. View of the old synagogue in Aachen after its destruction on Kristallnacht.
3. Austrian police stand guard in front of a Jewish-owned business that has been destroyed. Circa 1938.
------------To learn more, visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at http://www.ushmm.org/kristallnacht.
Entrance: To enter the hiding space, please touch the elevator door in front of your avatar.
Personal Stories: The Hilsenraths lived in Bad Kreuznach. Susan was the eldest of three children.
Her father owned a thriving linen store, and her mother took care of Susan and her two brothers.
After the Nazis came to power, the Hilsenraths, like other Jewish families, began to feel the effects of
increased antisemitism. Susan Warsinger is one of the voices heard in this experience.
United States Holocaust
Museum, Washington
WITNESSING HISTORY:
Kristallnacht: The November 1938 Pogroms
DESTRUCTION OF SYNAGOGUES
Synagogues occupy a central place in Jewish religious
and communal life.
In the months before Kristallnacht, synagogues in Munich,
Nuremberg, Dortmund, and Kaiserslautern were
demolished on the orders of local Nazi party officials; in
other German towns, anti-Jewish vandalism was common.
On the night of November 9, 1938, however, the violence
became nationwide. After seizing the archives and
valuables, Nazis destroyed the interiors of synagogues
and desecrated religious objects. Wherever possible, the
assailants tried to set the buildings ablaze, while firemen
protected nearby "Aryan" property. Hundreds of
synagogues all over Germany, including Austria, were
vandalized, looted, and destroyed.
To learn more, visit the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum at http://www.ushmm.org/kristallnacht.
United States Holocaust
Museum, Washington
Cultural institutions in Second Life
Dr. Susan Jennifer Hazan - 12.10.09
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