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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 

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

Address: Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters 
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road AH 52, Suite 110 
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Phone: 561-297-2929
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Website: https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/pjhr/chhre/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Linda Medvin

Year Established: 1996

Type of Organization or Mission: To provide training and resources to educators and community organizations involved in Holocaust, genocide and human rights education.

Services: Resource center; Teacher training; Lending library; Speakers' bureau; Sponsor exhibits, commemorations, study tours and programs; Educational outreach; Summer Institute for Educators; Introductory and advanced workshops for K-12 teachers; Community Programs

Address: 20 Waterside Drive, Suite 100
Farmington, CT 06032                                                                   
Phone: 860-470-5591
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Website: https://www.ctvoicesofhope.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ctvoicesofhope/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ctvoicesofhope/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Peter Fishman, President
Principal Staff Members:
Kathy Fishman, Director of Operations
Robin Landau, Director of Programs and Development
Kimberly Ballaro, Director of the Holocaust Education Resource and Outreach (HERO) Center                                                                                                                                 

Year Established: 2016

Type of Organization: 501(c)(3) educational non-profit

Mission: Promoting a culture of courage to stand up against hatred through Holocaust and genocide education and remembrance.

Services: Founded by the descendants of Holocaust survivors, we hold numerous educational and commemorative events each year. Events and services include training and storytelling showcases for descendants of survivors, museum field trips, coordinating in-school speakers, professional development and materials for teachers, descendant book club and various cultural events such as films, art exhibits and book discussions.

Address: 475 Broad Street
New London, CT 06320
Phone: 860-443-8989
Fax: 860-442-4344
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Director/Person-in-Charge: Romana Strochlitz Primus

Year Established: 1975

Type of Organization or Mission: Provides small grants for Holocaust remembrance and education projects

Address: P.O. Box 208240
Sterling Memorial Library
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203-432-1879
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Website: https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Stephen Naron
Principal Staff Members:
Debra L. Bush, Archives Assistant
Dr. Timothy Snyder, Faculty Advisor
Joanne Weiner Rudoff, Archivist
Geoffrey H. Hartman, Faculty Advisor Emeritus

Year Established: 1982
Staff: Salaried - 4; Volunteer - 2

Type of Organization or Mission: Archive of 4,500 videotapes

Services: Reference assistance for scholars and researchers; Videotaping of survivor and witness testimonies; Educational videotape loan program (The collection is open to researchers.)

Publications: Witness: Voices from the Holocaust (86 min.) National PBS broadcast, May 1, 2000; Witness: Voices from the Holocaust (Free Press, 2000)

Center for Judaic Studies / University of Denver
Address: 2000 E. Asbury Ave.
Suite 157, Sturm Hall
University of Denver
Denver, CO 80208
Phone: 303-871-3013
Fax: 303-871-3037
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Website: https://liberalarts.du.edu/center-for-judaic-studies/hai

Publications: Survival & Witness website (survivalandwitness.org); Letters from Colorado Holocaust Survivors to Future Generations

Address: 7755 E. Quincy Ave., T-21
Denver, CO 80237
Phone: 720-210-4374
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Website: http://www.coholo.org/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/coholo.org 

Director/Person-in-Charge: Todd Hennessy, Board President
Principal Staff Members:
Peter Mehlbach, Vice-President
Mark Thorsen, Treasurer
Kirsten Aarestad, Secretary
Barbara Figg, Board Member

Year Established: 2011
Type of Organization or Mission: Holocaust education organization

Services: Teacher training; Curriculum development; Educational programming

Address: University of Southern California
Leavey Library
650 W. 35th St., Suite 114
Los Angeles, 90089
Phone: 213-740-6001 
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Website: https://sfi.usc.edu/
Facebook: USC Shoah Foundation 
Twitter: @uscshoahfdn 
YouTube: youtube.com/USCShoahFoundation

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Robert Williams, Executive Director

Year Established: 1994
Staff: 56

Type of Organization or Mission: USC Shoah Foundation-The Institute for Visual History and Education is dedicated to making audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides a compelling voice for education in action. The Institute's current collection of nearly 55,000 eyewitness testimonies contained within its Visual History Archive preserves history as told by the people who lived it, and lived through it. Housed at the University of Southern California, within the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the Institute works with partners around the world to advance scholarship and research, to provide resources and online tools for educators, and to disseminate the testimonies for educational purposes.  

Services: The Institute supports the academic and scholarly use of the Visual History Archive at universities and memorial institutions, and other sites worldwide. Testimony from the Visual History Archive has been incorporated into nearly 494 university courses across a broad range of academic disciplines and enhanced over 146 research projects; The Visual History Archive available at in its entirety at 67 institutions around the world, and smaller collections are available at 220 sites in 36 countries. In March of 2016 USC Shoah Foundation announced a landmark partnership with ProQuest to quadruple that number within two years and projects a 10-fold increase by the Institute's 25th anniversary in 2019; The Visual History Archive is digitized, fully researchable, and hyper-linked to the minute. This indexing allows students, professors, researchers and others around the world to retrieve entire testimonies or search for specific sections within testimonies through a set of more than 63,000 key words and key phrases, 1.8 million names, and 695,000 images; The Institute provides educational resources, online tools, and training to help teachers use testimony in the classroom setting. IWitness, USC Shoah Foundation's flagship online educational platform, curates clips from over 2,224 full-length testimonies from the Visual History Archive to provide teachers with testimony-based multimedia learning programs.The Institute also works with governmental and non-governmental entities in countries where the testimonies originated to encourage their local educational use.

Address: Simon Wiesenthal Plaza
9786 West Pico Blvd (SE Corner of Pico Blvd and Roxbury Drive)
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Phone: 310-553-8403
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Website: https://www.museumoftolerance.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/museumoftolerance
Twitter: twitter.com/MOTLA

Directors/Persons-in-Charge:
Melissa Mott, Executive Vice President
Mark Katrikh, Deputy Director: 

Principal Staff Members:
Anna Schwarz, Director of Education
Ann Pesahovitz, Director of Content

Year Established: 1993
Staff: Salaried -41; Volunteer - 165

Type of Organization: Educational, Non-profit, Human Rights Museum

Mission: The Museum of Tolerance is dedicated to challenging visitors to confront antisemitism, bigotry, and racism, while deepening their understanding of the Holocaust in both historical and contemporary contexts. Through immersive exhibitions, thought-provoking events, and customized educational programs for all ages, the Museum serves as a dynamic laboratory for learning and dialogue. It fosters critical reflection on the origins and impact of prejudice and discrimination in today’s world, promotes human dignity, and inspires individuals to take personal responsibility in the ongoing pursuit of a more just and compassionate society.

Services: Holocaust and Tolerance education programs; Youth and school workshops; Educator training and professional development; Law enforcement training; Traveling exhibitions, including the Mobile Museum of Tolerance; and Public lectures and speaker events.

Publications: Educational materials and curriculum guides