Address: One Campus Road
Staten Island, NY 10301
Phone: 718-390-3309
Fax: 718-420-4158
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Website: https://wagner.edu/holocaust-center/
Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Lori R.Weintrob, Director
Co-Founded by: Dr. Stephen Greenwald
Year Established: 2014
Type of Organization or Mission: To promote education about the impact of prejudice, intolerance, and antisemitism, as a critical component ofˇ 21st century learning; to engage youth and community members, with special attention to creating ties to local Holocaust survivors to ensure that the persecution and genocide of the Jews and others during an since World War II are never forgotten or repeated.
Services: Internships: Wagner students visit schools with survivors, gather testimony and interpret the holocaust through film, theater and art; Education outreach: 5th to 12th grades; Education travel programs: Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow, Auschwitz; Exhibits and collections: oral histories, artifacts, art, photography; Speakers series; Commemorations: Kristallnacht, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah; Research assistance to teachers and students
Publications: Tragedy and Resilience: Holocaust Survivors of Staten Island (Exhibits of artifacts and photos original drawings by survivors)
