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Floor Plans: MAIN FLOOR

Great
Synagogue

School

Apartment
Building

Shops

Backstage! The History of
the Yiddish Theatre

Kleynkunst

Jewish Cooking

Kitchen

Gut Essen
Delicatessen

Synagogues
of Europe

The Kehillah

T.S.

Aspects
of Jewish Communal Life

Rabbis and their Houses of Prayer
and Study

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Tram Stop

Eastern European Jewry

Tram Stop

Austria	Entrance to "Walk in My Shoes"
Scandinavia	Belarus
Great Britain	Poland
France	Lithuania
Italy	Ukraine
Spain	Hungary

Entrance to "World War II and the Holocaust"	The Final Solution
Faces of the Ghetto	Invasion and Occupation
Resistance, Rebellion and Destruction	Deportation
The Death March	The Concentration Camps
Liberation	Displaced Persons Camps
Seeking Justice	Emigration


	Family History Theatre

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Town Square

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Stories from our Ancestral Homes

The Jewish Diaspora	The Dreyfus Affair
The Emperors and Czars of Europe
The Pogroms vs. the Jews
Jewish Emancipation	Haskalah: The Jewish Enlightenment
Labor and Revolutionary Movements	The Balfour Declarations
The First World War	Between the Wars
The Jewish Press in Europe	The Jewish Soldier in History

The Six-Day War	The Sinai
The Political Arena	The Kibbutzim
Eretz Israel	Jerusalem
Aliyot to Palestine	Tel Aviv
Exodus 1947	The Galilee
The Question of Return	Haifa

The Journey by Sea

Lecture Hall
and
Auditorium

Conference Room

From the Pale to the Golden Land: How Our Families Came to America

In Search
of the
American Dream

Exhibition Space

Classroom

Computer Lab

Education
and
Research
Center

The Cemetery Project

The Map
Room

HIAS:
Hebrew Immigrant
Aid Society

Castle Island and
Ellis Island: Ports of Immigration

A Multitude of Immigrants

The Lower East Side of New York

Living in
America:
The Jewish
Experience

The Immigrant Jew in America

Museum
Offices

England

Canada

South
Pacific

South
America

Multimedia Room

Bookstore

Newspaper
Archives

Gift Shop

Lobby

Entrance

A/V Tours

Exhibition
Space

Security/
Lost & Found

Guard
Desk

Second Floor Map
Upper Floor Map
Music Pavilion Map

	Information and Tickets
	Coatroom
	Elevators
	Food Services
	Handicap Accessible
	Restrooms
	Public Telephone
	Infrared Devices
	Visual Aids
T.S.	Touch Screen Station
IIIIIII	People Mover

Main Floor Features:

			EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWRY
			WORLD WAR II AND THE HOLOCAUST
			WALK IN MY SHOES
			IMMIGRATION
			ERETZ ISRAEL
			FAMILY HISTORY THEATRE
			VIRTUAL TOWN SQUARE
			EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER