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The Lost Shtetl Museum is more than an exhibition of artifacts, survivors of a lost civilization. It is a place of reflection and, hopefully, a place to feel safe having a conversation about loss, shame and the Holocaust
There is no better place to build a museum dedicated to the history of the shtetl than a shtetl itself. For different generations of Eastern European Jews, the shtetl meant different things: a location, an identity, a realm of the imaginary.
