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Georgia Commission on the Holocaust

Address: 6110 Blue Stone Road
Atlanta, GA 30328
Phone: 770-206-1556 
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Website: https://holocaust.georgia.gov/
Facebook: @hologeorgiagov
Twitter: @holocaustga.gov

Director/Person-in-Charge: Chuck Berk, Commission Chair; Sally Levine, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members:
Patrice Weaver, Education Programs Manager
Sandra Craine, Education Coordinator
Fran Putney, Communications Manager              

Year Established: 1986 by Executive Order, 1998 the Commission became a permanent state agency by an Act by the Georgia General Assembly (HB1664)
Staff: Salaried - 3; Volunteer - 15

Type of Organization: State Commission and Education and Resource Center

Mission: The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust provides resources and programming to assist our audiences in examining the causes, events, and consequences of the Holocaust. We learn that what we say and do, matters. We explore the consequences of silence, indifference and inaction, then and now.

Services: Curriculum resources; Exhibitions: Anne Frank in the World: 1929-1945, William Alexander Scott III in Buchenwald; Group Tours; Oral History Project; Speakers Bureau; State Holocaust Commemorations; Student Community Service Awards; Teacher Training Workshops; Traveling Exhibitions; and Volunteer and Staff Training

 

University of Miami Holocaust Teacher Institute

Address: 5202 University Drive, Suite 310G
Merrick Building, 310G
P.O. Box 248605
Coral Gables, FL 33124
Phone: 305-868-5127 
Fax: 305-532-2009
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Website: https://www.edu.miami.edu/our-work/institutes/holocaust-teacher-institute/index.html

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky, Dean; Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff, Director
Principal Staff Members:
Alissa Pardo Stein, Consultant to the Institute on Holocaust Related Projects

Year Established: 2001
Staff: Salaried - 5; Volunteer - 15

Type of Organization or Mission: University of Miami accredited teacher training center for South Florida; liaison with: Florida Holocaust commission Task Force, Miami-Dade County public schools, Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies

Services: In-service teaching workshops for classroom teachers and pre-service teachers; Lecture/film series; Community outreach; Teacher training institutes (college accredited)

School District of Palm Beach County

Address: African, African American, Latino, Holocaust and Gender Studies Department
3388 Forest Hill Blvd., Suite A-204
West Palm Beach, FL 33046
Phone & Fax: 561-434-8000
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Website: https://www.palmbeachschools.org/holocausteducation

Director/Person-in-Charge: Maureen Marullo Carter
Principal Staff Members: Kimberly Coombs, Administrator, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Year Established: Holocaust Studies Department established in 1998

Services: Provide kindergarten to 12th grade Holocaust, human rights and character education to the 175,000 students and staff of the School District of Palm Beach County, in partnership with Florida Atlantic University, Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education; Speakers' bureau; Staff development; Commemorations; Exhibits; Generation to Generation program and curriculum development

Publications: District Curriculum K-12; Self Study Guide to the USHMM

Holocaust Theater International Initiative of the National Jewish Theater Foundation

Address: NJTF Holocaust Theater International Initiative at University of Miami Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies
2127 Brickell Avenue, Suite 3001
Miami, Florida 33129
Phone: 305-903-0298
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Website: https://www.njtfoundation.org/; http://htc.miami.edu/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Arnold Mittelman, President and Founding Director

Year Established: 2007
Type of Organization or Mission: Holocaust Theater Foundation

Services: Holocaust research, production and education utilizing theater as a tool for remembrance, awareness and curriculum development. Holocaust theater catalog; digital catalog in the form of a website containing plays from 1933 to the present that has user specific information. Created for scholars, educators, students, theater artists and the general public the expanding catalog has over 900 titles that are housed at the University of Miami Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Jewish Studies; Holocaust theater education; development of theatrically related curricula, study guides and exercises for all educational levels to enhance the use of Holocaust-related theater and theatrical techniques in Holocaust education; Holocaust theater production; promotion and facilitation of new domestic and international live theater productions, as well as the development of new theater works to be recorded for digital access. Remembrance Play Readings promotes international readings of plays drawn from Holocaust Theater Catalog commemorating the Holocaust.

Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida

Address: 851 N. Maitland Ave.
Maitland, FL 32751
Phone: 407-628-0555 
Fax: 407-628-1079
Email: https://www.holocaustedu.org/visit/admissions/
Website: https://www.holocaustedu.org

Director/Persons-in-Charge: Emily Sterling, Interim CEO: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Principal Staff Members:
Suzanne Grimmer, Director of Museum Operations: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Stephen Poynor, Director of Education: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Year Established: 1982
Staff: Salaried - 5; Volunteer - 50

Days and Hours Open to the Public: https://www.holocaustedu.org/visit/

Type of Organization or Mission: The Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida is a nonprofit, interfaith organization using the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry.

Services: We are storytellers featuring Survivor testimonies, virtual reality technology and exhibitions. We provide lesson plans, teaching trunks and professional development for teachers as well as community education and in-classroom teaching for students in grades 6 and up in Holocaust history,  diversity and inclusion, and bully prevention. Our programming features lectures, speakers, workshops, dramatic presentations, films, and book clubs.

Publications: Newsletter, bibliographies, curriculum guides, teacher's guides

Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach

Address: 1933-1945 Meridian Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Phone: 305-538-1663 
Email: Info@holocaustmemorialmiamibeach.org
Website: https://holocaustmemorialmiamibeach.org

Director/Person-in-Charge: Sheri Zvi, Chief Executive Officer
Principal Staff Members:  
Jessica Katz, Chair
Sharon Horowitz, Executive Director: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Dr. Miriam Klein-Kassenoff, Education Co-Chairman
Dr. Nicole Freeman, Director of Education: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Lida Shukrie, Program Coordinator

Year Established: 1990
Staff: Salaried - 8; Volunteers - 35

Type of Organization or Mission: Holocaust education center featuring an outdoor sculpture garden and memorial to the memory of the six million Jewish people who perished in the Holocaust

Services: Commemorations; Exhibits; Lecture series; Educational programs; Teacher training seminar/institute; Community outreach program

Publications: Sculpture of Love and Anguish, by Kenneth Treister & Helen Fagin; Sculpture of Love and Anguish (video); Newsletter, The LegacyTeacher/Student Resource Guide

 

Holocaust Learning and Education Fund, Inc.

Address: The Alvin Sherman Library
Nova Southeastern University
3100 Ray Ferrero Jr Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314
Phone: 954 389-9000
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Website: https://holocausteducationfund.com/index.html

Director/Person-in-Charge: Craig R. Weiner, President

Year Established: 2013
Staff: 7

Type of Organization: The Holocaust Learning and Education Fund, Inc., is the founding organization of two important Holocaust museums, both on major university campuses in South Florida. It provides operational funding for both museums and conducts several programs for student Holocaust education, as well as providing resources for educators and museum access to the general public.

Mission: Providing Holocaust education to Florida’s public and private schools and universities. The Craig and Barbara Weiner Holocaust Museum of South Florida is located in the Alvin Sherman Library at Nova Southeastern University. Additionally, the Craig and Barbara Weiner Holocaust Museum at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) located in Palm Beach County, Florida will open summer, 2025.

Services: Florida Holocaust Reflection Contest - Essay, art and documentary contests open to all Florida middle and high school students. Providing museum tours to schools as well as the general public at the Craig and Barbara Weiner Holocaust Museum of South Florida located at the Alvin Sherman Library of Nova Southeastern University. The all new Palm Beach County Holocaust Museum of South Florida at FAU will be open summer, 2025.

Holocaust Education Resource Council

Address: PO Box 16282
Tallahassee, FL 32317
Phone: 850-443-9649
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Website: https://holocaustresources.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HERCTallahassee

Director/Person-in-Charge: Barbara Goldstein, President
Principal Staff Members:
Rita Blank, Vice-President
Sam Kimelman, Treasurer

Year Established: 2009

Type of Organization or Mission: Florida Department of Education Task Force established to provide learning opportunities for teachers and community.

Services: Educational programs and curricula; Teacher training; Holocaust teaching trunks; Speakers' bureau; Online resources and tools; Public programs; Local writing and arts contest; monthly newsletter

Holocaust Education Program - Miami Dade College

Address: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Miami Dade College-Homestead Campus
500 College Terrace
Homestead, FL 33030
Phone: 305-237-5267
Fax: 305-237-5066
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Website: www.mdc.edu/main/hgep 

Florida Holocaust Museum

Address: 55 Fifth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Phone: 727-820-0100
Fax: 727-821-8435
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Website: https://www.thefhm.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Nathaniel Doliner, Board Chairman; Elizabeth Gelman, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members:
Erin Blankenship, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections
Urszula Szczepinska, Curator of Education and Director of Research

Year Established: 1991
Staff: Salaried - 20; Volunteer - 220

Type of Organization or Mission: Museum, resource and educational center (Accredited by American Alliance of Museums)

Group Tours and Teaching Trunk Reservations: Elias Senoner, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Services: Exhibits (permanent and traveling); Author, artist lecture series; Summer Institute on the History of the Holocaust, Human rights and Genocide Studies; Teacher training - Pre-Service/In Service; Speakers' bureau; Video testimony project on survivors and liberators; Group tours; On-line teacher resources; Educational outreach; Teaching trunks with literature-based curricula (Holocaust history, other genocides, art); Nancy and Ray Murray Library and Tolerance Center; Commemorations; Survivor services; Generations After-for children and grandchildren of survivors; Museum store; Docent-led tours; Anne Frank Humanitarian Award

Publications: The Holocaust Classroom Connections: Guidelines for Holocaust Education Grades K-12; Tous Ensemble by Marc Ash, Exhibition Catalog; Samuel Bak, Return to Vilna, Exhibition Catalog; The Women of Ravensbruck: Portraits of Courage; Freedom Illuminated - The Haggadah, a Mirror of Jewish History: Its Agony and Triumph; William Pachner, Imagined Landscapes, Exhibition Catalog; We Were There... Memories of the Holocaust, edited by Ursula Szczepinska; Kaddish in Wood. Memorial Woodcarvings - The Children, and Kaddish in Wood. Memorial Woodcarvings - Ghettos, Camps and Partisans by Dr. Herbert Savel, edited by Ursula Szczepinska; Memorial Woodcarvings - Family Portraits; The Holocaust by Bullets: A Study Guide for Educators by Urszula Szczepinska - a joint project of Yahad-in Unum and the Florida Holocaust Museum

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