Ours to Fight For

“Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War.” Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, 36 Battery Pl., New York, NY 10280. Temporary exhibition, Nov. 11, 2003–Dec. 31, 2006. 7,000 sq. ft. Louis D. Levine, project director; Ivy Barsky, deputy project director; Bonnie Gurewitsch and Jay Eidelman, curators; Frieda Wald, project manager; Jamie Hardis, registrar; Leslie H. Patten and Associates, interpretive planning; Sears and Russell, exhibition design; Rainmaker Productions, video production; Art Guild, Inc., fabrication and installation; Deborah Dash Moore, academic adviser. Internet: interactive exhibition, teacher's guide, veterans' stories, and directions, http://www.ourstofightfor.org/. As a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy who survived Nazi and kamikaze attacks, Robert Morgenthau, who chairs the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust board, wanted the museum's new Morgenthau wing to tell the story of American Jews who “heed[ed] their nation's call to arms.” “Ours to Fight

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