Maurice Shohet, President of the World Organization of Jews from Iraq, finds his own school records amongst the materials at the National Archives at College Park. He brings these records to life - providing context and sharing his family story and pictures.

Doris Hamburg, Director of Preservation Programs, and Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler, Chief of the Document Conservation Laboratory, go "behind the scenes" to show the incredible journey of this trove of materials from Baghdad to Texas to College Park, MD. Iraqi Jewish Archive staff including Sue Murphy, Project Manager, Katherine Kelly, and Anna Gilbert, discuss and show the ongoing work to make preserve this historic collection.

Iraqi Jewish Books and Documents Packed in Trunks for Shipment, June 2003

Early efforts to dry the books and documents outdoors. Photo courtesy of Harold Rhode

Doris Hamburg, Director of Preservation Programs at National Archives at College Park MD, and Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler, Chief of the Document Conservation Laboratory, share the dramatic and heroic story of how these historic materials were found and rescued, and how the National Archives is preserving them.

Criteria developed for selecting objects to digitize in the IJA collection

Quality control guidelines for IJA cataloging

Cataloging procedures for cataloging items in the IJA collection

Documentation on workflow stages and responsibilities to move items through the digitization process.

Documentation on the post-processing workflows for IJA items

Documentation on the quality assurance steps for IJA digitization

Documentation for how IJA files are named