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Address: Claremont McKenna College
888 Columbia Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
Phone: 909-607-0788
Fax: 909-621-8419
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Website: https://human-rights.cmc.edu/

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

Year Established: 2003
Staff: Salaried - 1

Type of Organization or Mission: Focused on undergraduate education in the areas of genocide, human rights and Holocaust history.

Services: Seminars; Lecture series; Visiting professorships; Workshops; Research projects; Summer internships; Post-Graduate Fellowship; Conferences

Address: 100 The Grove Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90036 
Phone: 323-651-3704
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Website: https://www.holocaustmuseumla.org/
Instagram: @LAMOTH1961
Twitter: @LAMOTH1961

Director/Person-in-Charge: Beth Kean, CEO
Principal Staff Members:
Lisa Barnet, Director of Operations
Jordanna Gessler, Vice President of Education and Exhibits
Katherine Semel, Director. Of Museum Tours
Jill Brown, Director of Public Programming
Stephanie Rosenbaum, Director of Development

Year Established: 1961
Staff: Salaried - 17; Volunteer - 100

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

Type of Organization or Mission: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is a primary source institution, one that commemorates those who perished, honors those who survived, and houses the precious artifacts that miraculously weathered the Holocaust. The Museum provides free Holocaust education to students and visitors from across Los Angeles, the United States, and the world, fulfilling the mission of the founding Holocaust Survivors to commemorate, educate, and inspire. Through engagements and education programs that value dialogue, learning, and reflection, the Museum believes that we can build a more respectful, dignified, and humane world.

Services: Free docent-led tours, Self-guided audio tours, Holocaust Survivor speakers, Traveling Exhibits, Guest Lectures, Teacher training, Docent training, Law enforcement training, Public programing, Special events, Digitized archive, Art and memory programs, L’Dough V’Dough, Community outreach programs, Internships, Newsletters, Lectures/film series

Publications: Those Who Dared: Rescuers and Rescued (a teaching guide for secondary schools); Anne Frank in Historical Perspective (a teaching guide for secondary schools); Polluting the Pure: An Exhibit on Racial Hygiene, Eugenics & Contemporary Questions (exhibit catalogue)

Address: 
PO Box 159004
2245 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
Phone: 415-449-3717
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Website: www.jfcsholocaustcenter.org 

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Anita Friedman, Executive Director Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Penninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
Principal Staff Members:

Principal Staff Members:
Morgan Blum Schneider, Director
Joe Hayes, Administrator
Rebecca Hausammann, Associate Director
Dr. Beth Cohen, Director of Education
Dr. Yedida Kanfer, Director of Collections and Programming

Year Established: 1979
Staff: Salaried - 10

Type of Organization or Mission: As one of California’s leading resources for Holocaust and genocide education, our work increases awareness about Jewish history and the causes and consequences of antisemitism, racism, and discrimination. Through a deeper understanding of the Holocaust and patterns of genocide, we inspire moral courage and social responsibility in future generations. The Holocaust Center is a program of Jewish Family and Children’s Services and includes an Educational Resource Center; Library (with 13,000 volumes, films, 500 Yizkor books); and Archive (including documents and artifacts, historical pamphlets and periodicals, photographs, and rare books).

Services: Teacher training workshops; Curriculum development; Commemorations; Seminars and Fellowships for students; Exhibits; Speakers Bureau; and Educational Programs.

California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education: The statewide network unites 14 institutions for Holocaust and genocide education. Through standards-aligned lesson plans, expert-led trainings, and a wealth of educational resources, we empower and unify educators in teaching the lessons of history and about what happens when bias goes unchecked. The California Teachers Collaborative was established by the JFCS Holocaust Center, with support from the California Department of Education, Marin County Office of Education, and the State of California. https://holocaustcenter.jfcs.org/education-resource/california-collaborative/

Address: 2245 Post St., Suite 204
San Francisco, CA 94115
Phone: 415-563-2244
Fax: 415-563-2442
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Website: https://www.jewishpartisans.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Elliot Felson, President
Principal Staff Members:
Sheri Pearl Rosenblum, Director of Development and Outreach
Mitch Braff, Founding Director

Year Established: 2000
Staff: Salaried - 1; Contractors - 6; Volunteers - 12

Type of Organization or Mission: The focus of the JPEF is to bring the history and life lessons of the Jewish partisans to students and their educators.

Services: Free online professional development for teachers; Teacher training workshops; Classroom visits; Speaker's bureau

Media: Traveling photographic exhibit - Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photographs of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman

Address: 1158 26th St. #438
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Phone: 818-981-3945
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Principal Board Members:
Eva Brettler
Harry Davids
Lya Frank
Henrietta Gordon
Daisy Miller

Year Established: 1983
Number of Members: 250

Type of Organization or Mission: To provide support with daily living to the survivor's community in general and the child survivors in particular, including participation in all issues related to the Holocaust.

Services: School visits to bear witness; Support groups; Conferences; Book readings

Publications: Semi-annual newsletters; Trudi Alexi, The Mezuzah in the Madonna's Foot: The Marano Legacy; Curt Lowens, Destination: Question Mark; R. Gabriele S. Silten, Between Two Worlds: Dark Shadows, Bright Life; Barry Spanjaard, Don't Fence Me In; How We Survived - Personal stories of survival by 52 Los Angeles chapter members. Title: How We Survived, Publisher: Our group (Child Survivors of the Holocaust, Los Angeles), First Printing: 2011. Second Printing: 2016 Copyright applies to both printings. ISBN: 978-0-9838338-0-2.

Address: 8033 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Phone: 323-650-1774
Fax: 323-654-4689
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Website: https://www.chambon.org/; https://www.varianfry.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Pierre Sauvage, President

Year Established: 1982
Staff: Volunteer - 1

Type of Organization or Mission: Educational Foundation; Production/distribution: documentaries, exhibits; Archive: photographs, documents, film and video footage, books

Productions: Weapons of the Spirit, full-length (90 min.) and short (35 min.)ˇ versions, upcoming 25th anniversary edition; Not Idly By: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust, (Varian Fry Institute, 58 min.); And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry in Marseille, documentary by Pierre Sauvage (Varian Fry Institute, upcoming); Yiddish: the Mother Tongue, 57 minutes; We Were There: Christianity and the Holocaust, 67 minutes

Services: Speakers' bureau; Program consultation (Righteous Gentiles: U.S. and the Holocaust); Photographic and documentary archive; Exhibits; Conferences

Address: Northern Arizona University
P.O. Box 5624
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5624
Phone: 928-523-2464
Fax: 928-523-8477
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Website: https://in.nau.edu/martin-springer/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Bjorn Krondorfer
Principal Staff Members: 
Melissa Cohen, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Year Established: 1999

Type of Organization or Mission: The Martin-Springer Institute brings the experiences of the Holocaust into sharp focus in order to understand those events in the context of today’s concerns and crises. Through public presentations, exhibits, teacher training, symposia and special events, we seek to use insights and lessons from the past to address current conflicts—including the treatment of refugees, mass violence, and genocide. Our programs promote the values of moral courage, tolerance, empathy, reconciliation, and justice. Founded by Ralph and Doris Martin, the Institute fosters dialogue on local, national, and international levels.

Services: Educational resources; Public programs; Speakers' bureau

Address: 1323 Dauphin St.
Mobile, AL 36604
Phone: 251-455-3592
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Website: http://www.gcholocaustcenter.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/agchlibrary
Twitter: http://twitter.com/AGCHolocaustLib

Director/Person-in-Charge: Donald Berry, Ph.D., Director; Jerry Darring, Curator of Alabama Gulf Coast Holocaust Library

Year Established: 2007

Type of Organization or Mission: To provide and promote education focusing on the history of the Holocaust as well as other genocidal acts; to remember the victims of the Holocaust, preserving the dignity of all who have faced humiliation, suffered under violence, or lost their lives in campaigns of terror and bigotry; to work toward a society which fosters dialogue among all ethnic, political and religious groups.

Services: Educational workshops; Resources for teachers; Curriculum trunk; Speakers' bureau; Remembrance services

Publications: Guide for Holocaust Educators on the Gulf Coast; A series of four Holocaust history presentations

Address: 2100 Highland Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35205

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 130805 
Birmingham, AL 35213
Phone: 205-795-4176 
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Website: https://ahecinfo.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BHEC.connect
Twitter: @BHECinfo
Instagram: @BHECinfo

Director/Person-in-Charge:
Rev. Melissa Self Patrick, Executive Director
Ann M.Mollengarden, Education Vice-President
Principal Staff Members:
Kendall R. Chew, Programs Administrator
Mark Skinner, Librarian
Melissa Young, Archivist

Year Established: 2002
Staff: Salaried - 2; Volunteers - 30

Type of Organization or Mission: The mission of the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center (BHEC) is to educate the people of Alabama about the history of the Holocaust so that new generations will apply the lessons of the Holocaust to the construction of a more just, humane and tolerant future. By preserving and sharing the stories of local Holocaust survivors and commemorating the events of the Holocaust and the lives of those who perished, the BHEC seeks to promote a moral and ethical response to prejudice, hatred and indifference for the benefit of all humanity. The BHEC is a JFR "Center of Excellence."

Services: Speaker's bureau; Teacher Scholarships; Teacher professional development and resources; Holocaust studies library; Book club; Community/Corporate Programs; Yom Hashoah commemoration; Internship program; Traveling exhibits; Archives; Holocaust Studies library

Publications: Legacy - semi-annual newsletter

Address: P.O. Box 130577
Birmingham, AL 35213
Phone: 205-795-4176; 334-294-5873
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Website: https://alabamaholocaustcommission.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Dan Puckett, Chairman, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Regional Education Coordinators:
Ann M. Mollengarden
Dr. Donald Berry

Year Established: 1999
Type of Organization: State Commission

Mission: The core mission is to provide Holocaust education in the State of Alabama; teaching remembrance as well as cultivating a sense of the individual and collective responsibility in maintaining human rights. The AHC serves as a gateway to two regional Holocaust education groups offering resources and programming to their respective areas.
Services: Educational grants; Yom Hashoah Commemoration