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The Early Life of Irving Berlin: Talk and Music

Explore Iriving Berlin's early life and work. Music by cast members from Holiday Inn, the new Berlin musical on Broadway.

Music and Talk: Irving Berlin’s Brilliant New York Career

Join us for an evening of song and talk about Irving Berlin’s long and glittering New York career.

From Red Star to White Star: Bankers, Ocean Liners, and the International Mercantile Marine Company

Find out how the Red Star Line helped form the core of New York banker J.P. Morgan’s International Mercantile Marine Company.

Talk and Music: The Making of HOLIDAY INN, THE NEW IRVING BERLIN MUSICAL

Explore the transition from film to stage of HOLIDAY INN, the 1942 Academy Award© – winning movie with songs by Irving Berlin that is making its Broadway debut this fall.

Cruise away...

The Red Star Line Museum has even more gems of passengers’ and crew members’ diaries and photograph albums. Take a look here.

Cruise away...

The Red Star Line Museum has even more gems of passengers’ and crew members’ diaries and photograph albums. Take a look here.

Tranzyt Antwerpia

The photographer Herman Selleslags and the author Pascal Verbeken took an unforgettable journey through Europe. They packed the diary of the Jewish teenager Benjamin Kopp, who was born in a village near Warsaw and was a Red Star Line passenger in 1912, in their suitcase.

Leopold longs for an adventurous life in Canada

He fought for his dream for more than 20 years

In the course of 20 years, Leopold Lybeer worked as a railway builder and herdsman in Canada. The financial crisis and his wife's nostalgia ended his Canadian adventure. Leopold would never forget the pristine landscape of Canada.

The Film 'Only One New York'

In 1963 Jan Yoors and the French film director Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau made the film Only One New York. Gaisseau won the first Oscar for a documentary in 1961 with the film Le Ciel et la Boue. The film documents a Franco-Dutch expedition through Dutch New Guinea. It focuses on tribes of cannibals.

The origin of Jan Yoors: Eugène Yoors and Magda Peeters

The influence of Eugène Yoors and Magda Peeters on the life and work of their son should not be underestimated.

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