by FourthBase » Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:29 am
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.ujc.org/ga_speaker_bio.html?SectionID=42&id=290&list=s&bread=0">www.ujc.org/ga_speaker_bi...=s&bread=0</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Alexandra Zapruder<br><br>Following her graduation from Smith College in 1991, Alexandra Zapruder served as the researcher for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s exhibition for young visitors, Remember The Children, Daniel’s Story. In the fall of 1993, after the opening of the Museum, she became the Assistant Director of the Oral History Department, working with Holocaust survivors to record their testimonies. She earned her Master’s Degree in Education at Harvard University in 1995 and returned to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 to join the development team for the traveling version of Remember The Children, Daniel’s Story. In addition to her work at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Alexandra identified and gathered diaries written by young people during the Holocaust. Her work resulted in the publication of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust, which won the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category in 2001. She also served as the guest curator for an exhibition of original young writers’ Holocaust diaries, entitled Private Writings, Public Records, which was on view at Holocaust Museum Houston from October 2001 – February 2002. From 2002-2005, Alexandra directed the conceptual development of a children's center devoted to the visual arts to be built in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. In addition, she wrote and co-produced a documentary film for young audiences based on Salvaged Pages, which aired on MTV in May 2005.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Pretty weird if she didn't self-identify as a Jew. <p></p><i></i>