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Address: 500 W. 185th Street
New York, NY 10033
Phone: 646-592-6825
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Website: https://www.yu.edu/fish-center
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FishcenterYU

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Shay Pilnik, Director
Principal Staff Members: 
Hodaya Blau, Program Coordinator

Year Established: 2019
Staff: Salaried - 2; Faculty - 6

Type of Organization: University Holocaust Studies Program

Services: Through courses, lectures, conferences, research, and more, the Center is dedicated to the study of the Shoah (Holocaust) from a perspective steeped in the history, culture, religion, and spiritual life of the Jewish civilization annihilated by the Nazis and their collaborators. Professorial chairs in Holocaust studies; Lectures and public lectures by faculty; MA in Holocaust studies; Holocaust lecture series by renowned scholars; In person programming in Holocaust education

Address: 121 Bennett Avenue Suite 12A
New York, NY 10033
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Website: https://fritzaschersociety.org
Facebook: @fritzaschersociety
Twitter: @Ascher_Society
Instagram: @fritzaschersociety

Director/Person-In-Charge: Rachel Stern

Year Established: 2014

Type of Organization: 501(c)(3)

Mission: The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art, Inc. re-discovers artists, whose careers were interrupted or destroyed by the Nazi terror regime, and who themselves were persecuted, ostracized or banned. International collaborations on exhibitions, research initiatives and publications in print and/or digital media introduce the work of these artists to an international public. 

Services: Touring exhibitions, research initiatives, publications in print and/or digital media, educational programs, lectures, panel discussions and conferences (both in-person and virtual)

Publications: Exhibition catalogues; regular newsletters; educational materials: https://fritzaschersociety.org/fritz-ascher/selected-publications/

Exhibits: Fritz Ascher, Expressionist (Berlin, 1893-1970); Immortality, Memory, Creativity, and Survival: The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana, Ronnie Cahana and Kitra Cahana

Traveling Exhibits: Art and Remembrance
Exhibit Name: Fritz Ascher, Expressionist (Berlin, 1893-1970)
Website Resource/Digital Exhibition: https://fritzaschersociety.org/fritz-ascher-themes-and-variations/
Size: 1,800-2,200 square feet; Availability: until 2025
Rental Fee: Yes – Call for fee plus shipping and insurance; Who Bears Fee: exhibitor
Contact: Rachel Stern (917-363-0056) or use website contact form: https://fritzaschersociety.org/contact/

Description: Fritz Ascher, Expressionist (Berlin 1893-1970) is the first ever comprehensive retrospective of Fritz Ascher’s art. Surviving two world wars and Nazi persecution in Berlin, Ascher developed his unique artistic voice in paintings, works on paper and poems. The exhibition shows a representative group of ca. 75 works (25 paintings and 50 works on paper) spanning Fritz Ascher’s oeuvre from first academic studies to monumental Expressionist figure compositions to mature landscapes. While hiding in 1942-45, Ascher wrote poems that are included as “unpainted pictures.”

Address: 147 Cypress Street
Newton, MA 02459
Phone: 617-699-6857
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Website: https://www.lockerofmemory.com 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jungfernhofmemorial

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Karen Frostig
Principal Team Members: 
Dr. Richards Plavnieks, Chief Historian
Evan Robins, Research Coordinator
Kabren Levinson, Chief Technology Officer
MakerLab at Brandeis University - Designer/technologists
Ilya Lensky, Primary Advisor
Scientific team – led by Dr. Richard Freund, Holocaust archeologist, and geographer and cartographer

Year Established: 2019
Staff: Contracted specialists 5; Advisors 4

Type of Organization: NGO, Holocaust Memorial installed at the Jungfernhof concentration camp in Riga, Latvia

Mission: Recovering Holocaust history and memory about a forgotten camp, commemorating the intersection of Holocaust memory between Latvia, Germany and Austria

Services: Website; online database referencing 3984 victims and survivors; historic interactive timeline; search for mass grave containing 800 bodies; production of maps and infographics, immersive AR and VR environments to foster tools of engagement; project blog; exhibition; and memorial development.

Publication: Plavnieks, R. and Frostig, K. (2021). “Jungfernhof Concentration Camp.” In United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Vol 6. Lohse, A. (Ed.) (forthcoming).

Address: 5551 Balboa Blvd.
Encino, CA 91316
Phone: 818-501-1836
Fax: 818-501-1835
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Website: https://jww.org/site/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JewishWorldWatch
Instagram: @JewishWorldWatch
Twitter: @jworldwatch

Director/Person-in-Charge: Serena Oberstein, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members: 
Jan Snider, COO
Amy Friedman Cecil, Director of Education
Jeff Hensiek, Director of Marketing & Communications
Courtney Hamilton, Director of Advocacy and Strategic Growth

Year Established: 2004
Staff: Salaried - 6; Volunteer - 25

Type of Organization: 501(c)(3)

Mission: Jewish World Watch (JWW) is an expression of Judaism in action. We bring help and healing to survivors of mass atrocities around the globe, and we seek to inspire people of all faiths and cultures to join us in the ongoing fight against genocide. Vision: We envision a compassionate community that is driven to act against genocide and mass atrocities worldwide. Values: Based on our history in the Holocaust and our Jewish values, we believe that we must speak out and act in the face of genocide and mass atrocities. We believe education can create global citizens. We believe you can choose. You can act. You can transform the world.

Services: Education - Speaking engagements; Community events; Seminars; Film screenings; Teen Ambassador Program (TAP); Advocacy - Petitions, Advocacy training; In-district meetings; Student activism; Holocaust and human rights education; Community outreach programs; Public programs

Address: Chadstone Shopping Centre, Level 9, Office Tower One
1341 Dandenong Road, Chadstone Vic 3148
PO Box 204
Chadstone Vic 3148
Australia
Phone: +61 3 8564 1288
Mobile: + 61 0 458 344 689
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Website: https://gandelfoundation.org.au/

Director/Person in Charge: John Gandel AC, Chairman and Co-founder
Principal Staff Members:
Vedran Drakulic OAM, CEO
Nicole Brittain, Grant Manager, Jewish and Israel programs

Year Established: 1978

Type of Organisation or Mission: A private family foundation which supports a broad range of social and community organisations, including a specific and significant focus on Holocaust remembrance and education throughout Australia. Gandel Foundation provides grants, in-kind support and other assistance to organisations to develop and deliver Holocaust education and remembrance programs in schools and in the general community. Gandel Foundation also runs an award-winning national program called the Gandel Holocaust Studies Program for Australian Educators, a year-long professional development program for Australian secondary school teachers who learn how to properly and effectively teach about the Holocaust, culminating in an 18-day immersive training at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. 

Services: Teacher training (through the Gandel Holocaust Studies Program), and also through joint funding with the State of Victoria government for training of teachers in Victorian public schools; Holocaust education programs; Holocaust exhibitions such as the Anne Frank Travelling Exhibition and the Courage to Care exhibition; support for Holocaust museums and centres such as the establishment of the Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Steiner Education Centre; grants and funding for organisations that deliver Holocaust education; grants and funding for Holocaust remembrance programs; convening and knowledge sharing initiatives; public research related to Holocaust knowledge and awareness in Australia; advocacy initiatives such as lobbying State governments in Australia to introduce mandatory Holocaust education in public schools (implemented in the State of Victoria); and awareness and recognition of Holocaust education programs and activities such as the Gandel Award for Excellence in Holocaust Education.  

Address: 15 West 16^th Street
New York NY 10011
Phone: 212-246-6080
Fax: 212-294-6125
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Website: https://www.yivo.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YIVOInstitute
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/YIVOInstitute
YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum: https://museum.yivo.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Jonathan Brent Executive Director & CEO
Principal Staff Members: 
Melissa Cohen, Chief Development Officer
Shelly Freeman,Chief of Staff
Robert Wagman, Chief Financial Officer
Stefanie Halpern, Director of Archives

Year Established:1925
Staff: Salaried - 35; Volunteer - 20

Type of Organization: 501(c)(3)

Mission: To preserve, study, share and perpetuate knowledge of the history and culture of East European Jewry worldwide.

Services: YIVO is a research institute, an institution of higher learning, an adult education organization, a cultural organization, and a world-renowned library and archive. The Institute is dedicated to the preservation and study of the history and culture of East European Jewry worldwide. For nearly a century, YIVO has pioneered new forms of Jewish scholarship, research, education, and cultural expression. The YIVO Archives contains more than 23 million original items and YIVO’s Library has over 400,000 volumes—the single largest resource for such study in the world.

Selected Publications: 
Yivo Periodicals:
Yedies fun yidishn visnshaftlekhn institut (Warsaw, Vilna, and New York: 1925-2013).
YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science (later YIVO Annual) (New York: 1946-1996).
Yivo bleter (Vilna and New York: 1931-2003).

Philological Publications:
Filologishe shriftn (Vilna: 1926-1929).
Yidishe shprakh (New York, 1941- present).

Yivo Publications: 
Hundert, Gershon, ed. The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New Haven: YIVO and Yale University Press, 2008.

Holocaust Publications: 
Mendelsohn, Shloyme. Der vidershtand in varshaver geto. New York: YIVO, 1944. Trunk, Isaiah. Lodzher geto. New York: YIVO, 1961.
Weinreich, Max. Hitler’s Professors. New York: YIVO, 1946.
YIVO-Yad Vashem Bibliographical Series. 15 vols. New York and Jerusalem: YIVO and Yad Vashem, 1960-1978.

Address: 20 Crown Steel Dr., Unit 6
Markham, ON L3R 9X9
Canada
Phone: 905-415-3917, Ext. 301
Fax: 905-415-0071
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Website: https://www.liberation75.org/

Founder: Marilyn Sinclair

Year established: 2017

Type of Organization/Mission: Liberation75 is the world’s largest global event dedicated to commemorating and celebrating the 75^th anniversary of liberation from the Holocaust. Postponed until 2021 due to COVID-19, Liberation75 will focus on remembering the victims, honouring the survivors, showcasing the future of Holocaust education, reflecting on antisemitism in the world, celebrating the role of the liberators, encouraging collaboration and committing to keeping the Holocaust relevant for future generations.  

Address: 1301 K St. NW, 3^rd Floor
c/o Mindspace
Washington, DC 20005 
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Website: https://eihr.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eihumanrights
Twitter: @eihumanrights
Instagram: @eihumanrights
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@eihr

Director/Person-in-Charge: Kate W. English, Executive Director

Principal Staff Members:
Kim Klett, Deputy Executive Director
Dr. Carrie Olson, Curriculum Director

Year Established: 2011
Staff: Salaried - 3; Part-time - 1; Contracted - 8

Type of Organization or Mission: EIHR cultivates partnerships among educators globally to create materials and deliver training based on best practices in Holocaust education. Together we deliver content and strategies for teaching mass atrocities history, genocide prevention, and sustainable peace.

Services: International and US workshops, conferences, teacher training, consultation, and collaboration on educational content relating to the Holocaust and global atrocities.

Year Established: 1986              
Staff & Volunteers: 1 staff; 20 board members

Mission: The mission of the Holocaust and Genocide Education Network (HGEN) is to advance and improve Holocaust and genocide education in Ohio through professional development, educator workshops, and the dissemination of tools that connect educators and the public with accurate, relevant, and useful educational resources.

Services: HGEN provides workshops for educators in Ohio; provides a speaker’s bureau of experts in various areas of Holocaust and Genocide education; and advocates for state legislation and state or national curriculum to support the Holocaust and genocide education.

Address: 4950 Murphy Canyon Rd
San Diego, CA 92130
Phone: 619-708-6883
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Website: https://thebutterflyprojectnow.org/
Facebook: @thebutterflyprojectnow
Twitter: @TBPNOWYEAR

Director/Person-in-Charge: Cheryl Rattner Price, Executive Director/Co-Founder
Principal Staff Members: 
Margaux Dinerman, Director of Development
Christine Tomasello,  Director of Operations
Beth Licha, Program Manager

Year Established: 2006
Staff: 6 Board members; Volunteers - 35+

Type of Organization: We are national and international Holocaust education organization working with educators, museums, community centers, religious centers universities and libraries. 

Mission: The Butterfly Project is a call to action through education, the arts and memorial making. It uses the lessons of the Holocaust to educate about the dangers of hatred and bigotry and cultivates empathy and social responsibility. Participants paint ceramic butterflies that are permanently displayed as symbols of resilience and hope, with the goal of creating 1.5 million butterflies around the world—one for each child who perished in the Holocaust, and honoring the survivors.

Services: In class presentations; memorial making, NOT The Last Butterfly documentary film to launch public and school programming; teacher training; 2^nd 3^rd & 4^th Gen Speaker’s Bureau & workshops.