To make a plug for my own place-

     Last week we opened a new exhibit called The Voyage of the St. Louis.
     It's a terrific smaller exhibition showing how the U.S. could have
     helped these refugees, but choose not to.  Given the refugee situation
     today, this exhibition is especially important.  (Exhibit description
     below.)

     We're just off the Mall, come by and see us when you are seeing all
     those great Smithsonians!

     Kate Haley Goldman
     U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum



     This is the 60th anniversary of the ill-fated voyage of the SS St.
     Louis which sailed from Hamburg, Germany, on May 13, 1939, bound for
     Cuba with over 900 passengers most of whom were Jews fleeing Nazism.
     After being denied entry into Cuba and turned away from the United
     States, the passengers were forced to return to the uncertainty of
     Europe in the months just before World War II began. The fate of the
     St. Louis passengers reflects on the variety of experiences that
     befell Holocaust survivors and victims - some hid, some were deported,
     some worked at forced labor, some were able to escape Western Europe
     before the Nazi invasion, and many perished at the hands of the Nazis
     and their collaborators. What makes their stories different from those
     of other Holocaust victims is that these particular people were just
     off the coast of Miami in early June, 1939, when they could have been
     saved.


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     Subject: Re: Exhibitions and excitement in Washington DC
     Author:  Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]>  at
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     Date:    4/16/99 9:09 AM


     Katrin and all members,
     Don't miss two exciting exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art
     Museum:

     Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory and Abbott Thayer: The
     Nature of Art. Not to mention our own wonderful collections of Western
     Art, Puerto Rican Art, Folk Art, Gilded Age, and Impressionism!

     We are located at 8th and G Streets, NW - about 4 blocks north of the
     mall. Take the Red Line Metro and get off at Gallery Place. Our
     building sits right on top of the Metro stop.

     Louise Reeves, Exhibitions Coordinator

     >>> Katrin Heidar <[log in to unmask]> 04/14 12:27 AM >>> Dear
     listservers,

     Would anybody know of and be able to provide information regarding
     interesting exhibitions that are ongoing in the capitol next week? I
     am going
     there for the first time and would like to check out the art scene and
     the
     museums. Any information is appreciated.

thanks,

K. Heidar
B.F.A. program
University of Iowa

PS. Also, any good, exotic and excellent vegetarian restaurants, worth
going
to?