Name: Dante Tejerina

Social Justice Group: 2022-2023, Technology: Free Speech v Hate Speech Online

Date of Fieldwork: January 26, 2023

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Jewish Heritage Museum

Type of Fieldwork: Tour of Organization

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

On Thursday the 26th at the beginning of Big Time, we started heading out for our first fieldwork. Led by Jacob we took the one train for 5 stops to Rector Street where we walked a few blocks to the museum where we entered the Jewish Heritage Museum

The first exhibit we went to was “The Holocaust, What Hate Can Do” we mainly learned about antisemitism, and the 2000+ year history of it. But there was a strong focus on the Holocaust and those who survived it and the stories they told. The entire exhibit was completely moving to me and seeing all of the horrific events that occurred really lit up this spark of anger, because recently there have been major sparks of hate and antisemitism not only in the U.S but also in large countries in Europe. We were in that exhibit for around 2-2.5 hours

The second exhibit we went into was the “life after the holocaust” which was an exhibit about the photos of people and their story about what they did after the holocaust.