On a recent trip to new york city, booktv visited the New York Public Library where we spoke with the librarys president and ceo, anthony marx, but the history of the institution as well as its Current Operations and future. Lets start with some numbers. How big is the New York Public Library . How many employees, budget, et cetera . New York Public Library combines the largest circulating Branch Library system in america, 88 branches, in every neighborhood in the boroughs we serve, as well as for Important Research libraries. This one being the crown jewel at the center of the system but also the Schomburg Center and harlem, the library for performing arts, the lincoln said, science industry and Business Library. Have about 2100 employees. We have a budget of about 280 million a year operating about half comes from the city of new york. Largely to pay for the circulating Library System in all the neighborhoods. The other half comes from a return on a billion dollar endowment of the pr
Holocaust victims. Still alive among those survivors were my parents. Between the two of them. They had endured ghettos. Concentration camps forced labor camps and auschwitz its a miracle they survived a miracle made possible in part. By the remarkable efforts of our honorees tonight. The ritchie boys this year marks the 80th anniversary of their creation. In 1942 as my parents were engulfed in the crucible of the german assault against the and theirs and many other families were being slaughtered. A secret military Intelligence Training Center was established in maryland. Just 75 miles from where we are tonight. Its hard to imagine the war without the soldiers who trained there and became the ritual known as the richie boys. They played many roles. Photo analysts psychological warfare experts interrogators and fighters they even as day as you meant her David Rubinstein earlier, they even accompanied general eisenhower to the ordruff camp, which at that time was a subcamp of book and w
Soldiers who had been fighting their way across europe liberated the wartorn continent and freed some of the few holocaust victims. Still alive among those survivors were my parents. Between the two of them. They had endured ghettos. Concentration camps forced labor camps and auschwitz its a miracle they survived a miracle made possible in part. By the remarkable efforts of our honorees tonight. The ritchie boys this year marks the 80th anniversary of their creation. In 1942 as my parents were engulfed in the crucible of the german assault against the and theirs and many other families were being slaughtered. A secret military Intelligence Training Center was established in maryland. Just 75 miles from where we are tonight. Its hard to imagine the war without the soldiers who trained there and became the ritual known as the richie boys. They played many roles. Photo analysts psychological warfare experts interrogators and fighters they even as day as you meant her David Rubinstein earl
Soldiers who had been fighting their way across europe liberated the wartorn continent and freed some of the few holocaust victims. Still alive among those survivors were my parents. Between the two of them. They had endured ghettos. Concentration camps forced labor camps and auschwitz its a miracle they survived a miracle made possible in part. By the remarkable efforts of our honorees tonight. The ritchie boys this year marks the 80th anniversary of their creation. In 1942 as my parents were engulfed in the crucible of the german assault against the and theirs and many other families were being slaughtered. A secret military Intelligence Training Center was established in maryland. Just 75 miles from where we are tonight. Its hard to imagine the war without the soldiers who trained there and became the ritual known as the richie boys. They played many roles. Photo analysts psychological warfare experts interrogators and fighters they even as day as you meant her David Rubinstein earl
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