Super User

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
Email: 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.
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
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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 
General questions/information: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
To access Visual History Archive: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
To request educational resources: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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.

Simon Weisenthal Center
Address: Administrative Offices, Library and Archives
1399 South Roxbury Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90035-4709
Phone (Main): 310-553-9036 / 800-900-9036
Email (Main): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Phone (Library): 310-772-7605
Email (Library): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Website: http://www.wiesenthal.com

Museum of Tolerance Los Angeles
Address: 9760 West Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90035-4792 
Phone: 310-553-8403
Website: https://www.museumoftolerance.com

Year Established: 1977
Staff: Salaried -180; Volunteer - 150

Days and Hours Open to the Public:
Library and Archives: https://www.wiesenthal.com/about/library-and-archives/
Museum of Tolerance: https://www.museumoftolerance.com/visit/visitor-information/

Type of Organization or Mission: Library and Resource Center; Social Action; Archive; Defense of Human Rights; Research Institute; Public Outreach; Holocaust Remembrance; Media Projects; Education; Tolerance Training

Services: Curriculum development; Teacher training; Exhibits; Commemorations; Lectures and Film series; Educational Outreach programs; Oral History program; Conferences; Tools for Tolerance; Reference Assistance; Library Holdings on Web; Contact a Survivor; Sandra Brand Memorial Book Award; Once Upon a World - Children's Book Award for tolerance, diversity, social justice

Publications: Response: The Wiesenthal Center World Report; Dignity and Defiance: The Confrontation of Life and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto; Liberation: Code Name - The Long Sobbing; The Holocaust 1933-1945; Educational Resources Kit; Holocaust Denial: Bigotry in the Guise of Scholarship; Special Report: Hate, Mayhem and Terrorism on the Internet; Special Report: The Racist Exploitation of Christianity / The New Lexicon of Hate: The Changing Tactics, Language and Symbols of American Extremism; Ministry of Lies: The Truth Behind the Nation of Islam's Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews; The Courage to Remember (a 40 panel poster exhibition); Tolerance Educational Resources Kit; CD: Digital Hate and Terrorism 2004; Dismantling the Big Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Steven L. Jacobs and Mark Weitzman; Ministry of Lies by Harold Backman; Dignity and Defiance, eds. M. Weitzman, A. Klein, D. Landes; New Lexicon of Hate by Rick Eaton and Mark Weitzman; Antisemitism, the Generic Hatred: Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal, eds., Michael Fineberg, Shimon Samuels, and Mark Weitzman.

Write to Regional Offices:
NEW YORK
11 Broadway, Suite 766
New York, NY 10004
Phone: 212-697-1180
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

MIDWEST REGION
77 West Wacker Drive, Suite 4500
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: 312-981-0105
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

SOUTHERN US REGION
Rabbi Meyer H. May
SWC Executive Director
Phone: 310-553-9036 / 800-900-9036
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

TORONTO
Michael Levitt
President & Chief Executive Officer
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies
5075 Yonge Street #902
Toronto, Ontario
M2N 6C6, Canada
Phone: 416-864-9735
Fax: 416-864-1083
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

BUENOS AIRES
Ariel Gelblung
SWC Latin American Director
Guatemala 4253 Piso 3*"B"
1425BUC - CABA - Argentina
Phone: +54-11 - 4825-0592
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website: https://www.centrowiesenthal-latam.com

PARIS 
Dr. Shimon Samuels
Director for International Relations
Phone: +33-147237637
Fax: +33-147208401
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website: https://www.wiesenthal-europe.com/en/

JERUSALEM
Efraim Zuroff
1 Mendele Street
Jerusalem 92147, Israel
Phone: +011-972-2-5631-273 /5
Fax: +011-972-2-5631-276
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website: https://swcjerusalem.org

Address: American Jewish University
15600 Muholland Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90077
Phone: 310-440-1576; 310-476-9777
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website: https://www.aju.edu/institutes-groups/sigi-ziering-institute 

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Michael Berenbaum, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Principal Staff Members:
Oren Saig

Year Established: 2002
Staff: Salaried - 3

Type of Organization or Mission: The Sigi Ziering Institute is dedicated in memory of a brilliant scientist and thoughtful survivor of the Riga Ghetto who has written powerfully on the ethics of the Holocaust. It is situated within the University of Judaism, an institution dedicated to Jewish life and the Jewish future, respectful of Jewish death, the Jewish past and Jewish memory.

Services: Host conferences on the Holocaust and its impact; Educate for ethics, training rabbis and Jewish educators, leaders in non-profit organizations and the general community on the ethical and religious implications of the Holocaust; Outreach to clergy and seminarians of other faiths so that an understanding of the Holocaust is integral to all contemporary religions; Convene programs exploring the role of the Holocaust in contemporary Jewish identity and in American society; Convene seminars and public lectures, advanced professional training in the Holocaust and legal ethics, medical ethics, business ethics, professional ethics, governmental ethics; Publish papers, works and films exploring the religious and ethical implications of the Holocaust

Address: Chapman University
One University Drive
Orange, CA 92866
Phone: 714-628-7377
Fax: 714-532-6072
Website: https://www.chapman.edu/research/institutes-and-centers/holocaust-education/rodgers-center/index.aspx

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Marilyn J. Harran, Stern Chair in Holocaust Education, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Principal Staff Members:
Jessica Cioffi, Holocaust Ed. Coordinator, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ashley Bloomfield, Senior Program Assistant, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Joyce Greenspan, Community Liaison, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Staff: Salaried - 2
Year Established: 
The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education 2000; Sala and Aron Samueli Holocaust Library 2004

Type of Organization or Mission: The Center provides a multi-faceted program in Holocaust education and awareness, with many events open to Orange County schools and the community. The library serves as a gathering place, in an academic setting, for survivors, where teachers and students from throughout Southern California may gather to learn from survivors, visual testimonies and printed resources.

Services: The "1939" Club lecture series of historians, ethicists and artists; The Jerry and Sally Schwartz lecture series of survivors; The "1939" Club's Leopold Page Memorial Righteous Rescuers Lecture Series of resisters and rescuers; Annual Holocaust Remembrance commemoration event; Tours of displays for schools and community guests; Annual art and writing contest for middle and high school students; Teacher workshops