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Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County

Address: Welwyn Preserve
100 Crescent Beach Blvd.
Glen Cove, NY 11542
Phone: 516-571-8040
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Website: https://www.hmtcli.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HMTCNY

Director/Person-in-Charge: Moji Pourmoradi, Executive Director, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Year Established: 1986 (open to the public 1994)
Staff: Salaried - 6 f/t, 4 p/t; Volunteer - 130

Days and Hours Open to the Public: https://www.hmtcli.org/hours-of-operation

Type of Organization or Mission: Educational, Resource Center and Training Institute; Library and Archive; Multimedia museum and exhibit gallery

Services: Interactive tolerance & anti-bullying workshops; Speakers' bureau; Lending library; Law enforcement training; Teacher resource center; Holocaust exhibits and history programs; Traveling exhibits; Workplace diversity training; Student art and literary competitions; Commemorations; Film and lecture events; School programs and scholarships; Educational consultation and teacher and staff training; Tolerance training and lectures; Second generation group; One day teacher development workshops; Two-day teachers conferences; Holocaust & tolerance teaching trunks; Summer Holocaust Teachers Institute

Publications: Brochures; Newsletters; Educational DVDs; Survivor testimonies; Survivor Soulmates, 7-min. DVD & teachers guide depicting the bond between a Holocaust survivor and a survivor of the Rwandan genocide

Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center - Manhattan College

Address: Manhattan College
4513 Manhattan College Parkway
Bronx, NY 10471
Phone: 718-862-7284
Fax: 718-862-8044
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Website: https://www.hgimanhattan.com/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Mehnaz M. Afridi

Year Established: 1997

Type of Organization or Mission: Academic resource institution

Services: Lectures; Workshops; Exhibitions; Theatre

 

Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center

Address: Four West Red Oak Lane
Suite 204
White Plains, NY 10604
Phone: 914-696-0738
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Website: https://hhrecny.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HHREC
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/humanrights2900

Director/Person-in-Charge: Millie Jasper, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members:
Steve Goldberg, Director of Education

Year Established: 1990
Staff: Salaried - 7; Volunteers - 100

Type of Organization or Mission: Educational Outreach

Services: Professional Development for Teachers; Holocaust Survivors Speakers Bureau; Internships; International/National Educational Trips; Distinguished Lectures and Commemorations; High School and Middle School Human Rights Institutes, 2nd and 3rd Generation Workshops and Speakers Bureau, Downloadable Holocaust Curriculum, Traveling Exhibits

Media: Testimony of the Human Spirit, DVD and teachers' guide

 

Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center - Queensborough Community College/CUNY

Address: 222-05 56th Avenue
Bayside, NY 11364
Phone: 718-281-5770
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Website: https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qcc_khc/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/khcqcc
YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/2p8sj8tw

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Laura Cohen, Executive Director
Principal Staff Member:
Borana Somen, Administrative Coordinator

Year Established: 1983
Staff: Salaried - 2

Type of Organization or Mission: The mission of the KHC is to use the lessons of the Holocaust to educate current and future generations about the ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping. The KHC is a part of Queensborough Community College and is the only 9,000 square foot space devoted to Holocaust education, including a dedicated building, specialized library, and exhibition galleries, within the City University of New York (CUNY). 

Programs and Services: The KHC hosts a range of programs about Holocaust memory and its ongoing impact across, as well as relevancy to, societies around the world through annual commemorations, special events, student-focused initiatives, our QCC-faculty led National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) colloquia series, and lectures about our originally-researched exhibitions.

Publications: Humanistic Pedagogy Across the Disciplines: Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education in the Community College Context (Leshem & Traver, Palgrave 2018) and exhibit catalogues (available on the KHC's website)

Centro Primo Levi

Address: 15 West 16th St.
New York, NY 10011
Phone: 212-294-8301 ext. 8202
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Website: https://primolevicenter.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/centroprimolevi

Director/Person in Charge: Natalia Indrimi, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members:
Alessandro Cassin, Director of Publications

Year Established: 1989
Staff: Salaried - 2

Type of Organization or Mission: Disseminate knowledge on Primo Levi's work, the history of the Shoah in Italy and the history of Italian Jews through programs, academic seminars and publications.

Services: Assist with school curricula, provide access to source materials and bibliographies, assist PhD students and scholars with archival research in Italy, translate recent research conducted on primary sources in Italy, advise on academic and general publications, advise on institutional programming and exhibitions on the topics relevant to the center. Provides films with subtitles for educational and institutional screenings.

Publications: Printed matter, online magazine. CPL Editions books (including general books and an academic series)


Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester

Address: 255 East Ave
Rochester, NY, 14607
Phone: 585-241-8628
Fax: 585-461-0912
Website: https://www.jewishrochester.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Sapir Soble, CHAI Director, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Year Established: 1984

Type of Organization: Resource Center; Library: 1200 volumes catalogued; 400 videotapes catalogued; Archive: 60 audiotapes and 70 videotapes catalogued

Mission: The Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester works to build a strong Jewish future in Rochester, Israel and Worldwide through philanthropy, engagement, education and advocacy.

Services: Speakers' bureau; Curriculum guides; Teacher training; Exhibits, Poster Series; Public programs; Survivor Files; Curriculum consultation; Study Guides to accompany audio-video materials; Student workshops; Traveling Trunks

Publications: Choosing Courage, videotape and accompanying study guide about a local family of Dutch rescuers; Perilous Journeys: Personal Stories of German and Austrian Jews Who Escaped the Holocaust; Angie's Story; Online CHAI Newsletter; Web Book - Perilous Journeys (http://www.perilousjourneys.org/)

The Blue Card

Address: 171 Madison Ave., Room 1405
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212-239-2251
Fax: 212-594-6881
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Website: https://bluecardfund.org/

Director/Persons-in-Charge: Mark Bilski, Co-President; Mimi Lieber, Co-President; Gia Machlin, Chairman; Marsha Girshin, Executive Director

Year Established: 1939
Staff: Salaried - 2; Volunteer - 50

Type of Organization or Mission: The Blue Card, Inc. was founded in 1934 in Germany, by German Jews seeking to help other Jews flee the country's growing persecution. It was re-established in the United States in 1939. Its name comes from the blue cards issued to those given financial assistance.

Services: For many survivors, the losses they experienced decades ago are compounded by their current struggles to subsist on meager incomes; Emergency cash assistance - provides for survivors' most immediate needs by helping with the cost of dental care, medicine, rent, food and other essentials; Stipend programs - supports the most indigent survivors with monthly checks; Jewish holiday program - provides funds to allow survivors to celebrate the Jewish holidays with dignity and joy.

Anne Frank Center USA

Address: 244 Fifth Ave Ste J220
New York, NY 10001

Phone: 212-431-7993
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website: https://annefrank.com/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Lauren Bairnsfather, Chief Executive Officer

Year Established: 1977

Type of Organization or Mission: The Anne Frank Center builds on the legacy of the young writer through education and the arts. Its mission is to teach young adults about what happens when hatred and prejudice are allowed to flourish.

Services: The Anne Frank Center offers traveling exhibits, workshops, performances, and virtual field trips to communities throughout America

 

Yad Vashem USA Foundation

Address: 146 West 25th Street, Ste 905
New York, NY 10001
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Websitehttps://yadvashemfoundation.org/
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Type of Organization: 501(c)3

Principal Staff Members:
National Director of Philanthropy: Tamar Major, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Deputy National Director of Philanthropy: Beth Katznelson, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Development Assistant: Olivia Strulowitz, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Mission/Description of Organization: Yad Vashem USA Foundation is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides vital support for Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. As the leading center of Holocaust documentation, research, education, and commemoration, Yad Vashem strives to preserve the legacy of the victims and survivors while conveying the chronicles of this singular Jewish and human event to audiences around the world. Through its unique perspective and by highlighting individual voices from testimonies, diaries, artifacts, and other documentation, Yad Vashem continues to pave the way for a better future. The Yad Vashem USA Foundation is proud to support Yad Vashem in advancing its mission and passing the torch of remembrance from survivors to future generations, promoting awareness, and fostering a world where such atrocities are never repeated.

New Mexico Holocaust and Intolerance Museum

Address: 616 Central Avenue SW
Albuquerque, 87102
Phone: 505-247-0606
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Website: https://nmholocaustmuseum.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Raye Cohen, Executive Director; Werner Gellert, Founder
Principal Staff Member:
Lyn Berner, Director of Administration

Year Established: 2001
Staff: 4

Type of Organization or Mission: The mission of the New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum (NMHIM) is to use the lessons and personal stories of the Holocaust and other genocides to educate and inspire communities of upstanders. The museum strives to teach those we serve how to confront hate and bigotry so they can make a difference. NMHIM envisions a world in which individuals respect and stand up for the differences in others. Through the museum’s collaborations, both in person at the museum, in schools and community sites, and online, we aspire to be agents of change by encouraging dialogue, building mutual understanding, and taking appropriate actions within our diverse communities to create upstanders.

Services: Educational outreach, group tours, survivors' stories, research library

 

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