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Holocaust Education Resource Organization of Buffalo
Address: 338 Harris Hill Road, Suite 108B
Williamsville, NY 14221
Phone: 716-463-5072
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Website: https://buffalojewishfederation.org/herobuffalo/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/HRCOB
Director/Person-in-Charge: Lauren Bloomberg, Director
Year Established: 1983
Staff: Salaried - 1; Volunteer - 3
Type of Organization or Mission: Educational Resource Center; Library: vertical file, videotapes, oral history collection (103 testimonies of local survivors, liberators and Righteous Gentiles)
Services: Annual teacher workshops; Speakers' bureau; Loan program for schools - Book boxes, posters and videos; Teacher training; Group programs; Curriculum development; Tracing counseling; Free video lending library for teachers in the United States; Teaching trunks (middle school); Oral testimony catalogue
Holocaust Museum and Center for Tolerance and Education - Rockland Community College
Address: 145 College Road
Library Room 4110
Suffern, NY 10901
Phone: 845-574-4099
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Website: https://www.holocauststudies.org
Director/Person-in-Charge: Andrea Winograd,Executive Director
Principal Staff Members:
Geri Myer, Finance Manager
Julie Golding, Curator
Georgia Kass, Survivor Outreach
Year Established: 1979 (by State Charter) 1988 as museum and resource center
Staff: Salaried - 4; Volunteer - 100
Mission: Our mission is to educate, through the lens of the Holocaust, about the dangers of intolerance, to invoke critical thinking, and to inspire moral courage in the face of injustice.
Services: School and group visits; Commemoration ceremonies; Lectures, films, library and resource center; Speakers' bureau; Teacher resource center and teacher training seminars; Survivor support, outreach and programming; Traveling exhibits, learning trunks, and off-site presentations
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:
Phone: 212-431-7993
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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 school workshops, performances, and initiatives to communities throughout America.