Tag Archives: McMaster University

Virtual museum about Holocaust and WWII resistance movements

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Gail Dever

Friday, January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, designated by the United Nations in 2005. It commemorates the genocide that resulted in the death of an estimated 6 million Jewish people, 200,000 Romani people, 250,000 mentally and physically disabled people, … Continue reading →

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McMaster University initiates crowd-sourcing project to label thousands of old postcards

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Gail Dever

McMaster University library staff in Hamilton, Ontario have launched an online crowd-sourcing campaign to label 4,000 old postcards with their country, city, and date of origin. The antique postcard collection was donated to the university archives seven years ago by … Continue reading →

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McMaster University digitzes WWI trench maps

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Gail Dever

To mark the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario has digitized more than 1,350 trench maps and 580 photos from France and Belgium that the university acquired over the years. These artifacts join the more … Continue reading →

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