Yaffa Eliach
Polish American historian, author, and scholar of Judaic studies and the Holocaust · United States · On the map · Writers · Lived 1937 to 2016 · aged 79
Yaffa Eliach (May 31, 1935 - November 8, 2016) was an American historian, author, and scholar of Judaic studies and the Holocaust.
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In 1974, she founded the Center for Holocaust Studies, Documentation and Research in Brooklyn, New York, which collected over 2,700 audio interviews of Holocaust survivors as well as thousands of physical artifacts. Eliach created the "Tower of Faces" made up by 1,500 photographs for permanent display at the US Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
