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Holocaust Museum Houston

Address: 5410 Caroline St.
Houston, TX 77004
Phone: 713-942-8000
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Website: https://hmh.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Kelly Zuniga, Ed.D., CEO
Principal Staff Members:
Tamara Savage, Managing Director/Director of Public Programs
Mary Lee Webeck, Ph.D. HMH Holocaust & Genocide Education Endowed Chair
Connie Boyd, Director of Development
Kristin Albers Lamm, Chief Financial Officer
Carol Manley, Chief Curator of Collections and Exhibitions/Registrar
Robin Cavanaugh, Chief Marketing Officer
Madelyn Strubelt, Director of Visitor and Volunteer Services
Margaret Sasaki, Director of Grants and Research
Jenna Norris, Librarian
Wendy Warren, Director of Education

Year Established: 1996
Staff: Salaried - 32; Volunteer - 300

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

Type of Organization or Mission: Museum and Education Center Holocaust Museum Houston is dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust, remembering the six million Jews and other innocent victims, and honoring the survivors' legacy. Using the lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides, we teach the dangers of hatred, prejudice and apathy.

Services: Permanent and changing exhibits; Public programs and lectures; Library (research and member lending); Audio-visual collection; On-line survivor testimonies; Speakers? bureau; Docent-led museum tours; Audio headset tours; Museum store; Online bookstore; Yom Hashoah commemoration; Docent training program; Survivor memory project; Oral history project; Second Generation Speakers' bureau/Through Their Eyes

Publications: Print and e-newsletters; News for Educators, e-newsletter; Curriculum and study guides for exhibits; Questionable Issue: Currency of the Holocaust; There is No Why HerePlowing Stones: Poems of the Holocaust (English and Spanish); Where is my Family? (video) / DVD and curriculum guide; Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in SudanThe Album: Shadow of MemoryWhen They Came to Take My Father: Voices of the HolocaustArando Priedras: Poemas del HolocaustoHow Healing Becomes Killing: Eugenics, Euthanasia, Extermination

Education Institutes: Spector/Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers (in conjunction with Syracuse University); Warren Fellowship for Future Teachers; Max M. Kaplan Summer Institute for Educators

Education Programs and Services: K-16 student programs; Teacher resources; Content-specific one-day workshops (in museum, schools, community and conference settings); Digital curriculum trunks (i-Pad based); Juvenile justice education; Law enforcement and SLEASociety (in cooperation with the Houston Police Department and the Anti-Defamation league); Adult education programs; Yom Hashoah scholarship contest; Educator in Motion- Bilingual school and community outreach program; Engines of Change- Student ambassador program for high school students

El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center

Address: 715 N. Oregon
El Paso, TX 79902
Phone: 915-351-0048
Fax: 915-351-0908
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Website: https://elpasoholocaustmuseum.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EPHM84

Director/Persons-in-Charge: Jamie Flores, Executive Director; Mika Cohen Jones, Board President
Principal Staff Members:
Paulino Lopez, Fund Development Coordinator
Cynthia Serafin, Volunteer and Visitor Services Coordinator

Year Established: 1985
Staff: Salaried - 3; Volunteer - 30

Type of Organization or Mission: Museum and Study Center

Services: Traveling exhibits; Docent and teacher training; Lectures; Yom Ha Shoah commemorations; Speakers' bureau; Interfaith activities; Group tours; Oral histories; Curriculum development; Education trunks for middle and high schools

Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum

Address: 300 N. Houston Street
Dallas, TX 75202
Phone: 214-741-7500
Fax: 214-747-2270
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Website: https://www.dhhrm.org/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dhhrm/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhhrm_org

Director/Person-in-Charge: Mary Pat Higgins, President/CEO
Principal Staff Members:
Sara Abosch-Jacobson, Ph.D., Chief Education, Programs & Exhibitions Officer
Kerri Lai, Chief Advancement and External Affairs Officer
Kelly Rosales, Chief Financial Officer

Year Established: 1984
Staff: Salaried - 30; Volunteer - 200 
Days and Hours Open to the Public: https://www.dhhrm.org/visit/general-admission/

Type of Organization or Mission: Educational Resource Center; Museum; Memorial

Services: Permanent Exhibition; Special Exhibitions; Bilingual Mobile App; Student Group Tours; Adult Group Tours; Docents; Museum Store; Public Lectures and Programs; Speaker Series; Panel Discussions; Film Series; Educator Training Workshops; Yom HaShoah Commemoration; Adult Education and Professional Development Programs; Survivor Speakers; Video Library; Research Library

 

Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies - University of Texas at Dallas

Address: 800 W. Campbell Road
Richardson, TX 75080
Phone: 972-883-2100
Fax: 972-883-2101
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Website: https://ah.utdallas.edu/ackerman/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AckermanCenter

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Nils Roemer
Principal Staff Members:
Bonnie Gordon, Administrative Assistant
Cynthia Rogers, Teaching Assistant

Year Established: 1986
Staff: Salaried - 3; Faculty - 4

Type of Organization or Mission: University Holocaust studies program

Services: Holocaust studies library collection and reading room; Annual invited lectures and public lectures by faculty; Graduate certificate in Holocaust studies; Graduate fellowships in Holocaust studies; Professorial chairs in Holocaust studies

Media: Annual Burton Einspruch lectures posted on web

Tennessee Holocaust Commission

Address: PO Box 59252
Nashville, TN 37205
Phone: 615-527-8114
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Website: https://tnholcom.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Larry Leibowitz (Commission Chair)
Principal Staff Members:
Devora Fish, Director of Education
Alyssa Trachtman, Director of Operations

Year Established: 1984
Staff: Salaried - 2

Type of Organization: The mission of the Tennessee Holocaust Commission (THC) is to provide education and to promote remembrance of the Holocaust to the State of Tennessee. THC provides teachers, students and individuals with seminars, resources, workshops, traveling exhibits and commemorations to create awareness of the Holocaust, to fight prejudice and to encourage tolerance among all people.

Services: Teacher workshops; Belz-Lipman Teacher Award; Teacher Fellowship program; Resource library; Traveling exhibits; Commemorations; Annual educator outreach program

Publications: Living On: Portraits of Tennessee Holocaust Survivors and Liberators; The Holocaust and Other Genocides: History, Representation and Ethics

 

South Carolina Council on the Holocaust

Address: 1 Fernandina Ct.
Columbia, SC 29212
Phone: 803-786-3763
Fax: 843-744-2970
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Website: https://www.scholocaustcouncil.org/

Director/Persons-in-Charge: 
Scott Auspelmyer, Executive Director
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Year Established: 1989

Type of Organization or Mission: State appointed council

Services: Teacher training; Speakers' bureau

Publications: SC Voices: Lessons From the Holocaust; Video: Seared Souls

Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center

Address: 401 Elmgrove Ave.
Providence, RI 02906
Phone: 401-453-7860 
Fax: 401-861-9246
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Website: https://bornsteinholocaustcenter.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Judith Jamieson, President; May-Ronny Zeidman, Executive Director

Year Established: 1988
Staff: Salaried - 1.5; Volunteer - 50

Type of Organization: Educational resource center

Services: Educational programs; Speakers' bureau; Exhibits; Commemorations; Holocaust Through the Arts programs; Teacher workshops; Lectures; Art and writing contest; School tours and outreach visits

Publications: Newsletter - The Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center Newsletter

Lakin Holocaust Library and Resource Center - Albright College

Address: Albright College
Roessner Hall

P.O. Box 15234
Reading, PA 19612-5234
Phone: 610-921-0624
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Website: https://library.albright.edu/hrc

Director/Person-in-Charge: Vicki Graff, Program Director

Year Established: 1993
Staff: Salaried - 1

Services: Educational outreach programs; Speakers' bureau; Teacher training seminars and resources; Lending library: books, periodicals and videos; Yom Hashoah commemorations; Oral histories

National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education -Seton Hall University

Address: Seton Hill University
Greensburg, PA 15601-1599
Phone: 724-830-1033
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Website: https://www.setonhill.edu/centers-community-programs/holocaust-center/

Directors/Person-in-Charge: Dr. James Paharik, Director
Principal Staff Members:
Sister Lois Sculco, Emerita
Sister Gemma Del Duc Co-Director, Emerita (Israel)
Sister Noel Kernan, Co-Director, Emerita (USA)

Year Established: 1987
Staff: Student Assistants - 2; Interns - 2

Type of Organization or Mission: The mission of the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education is to counter antisemitism and to foster Catholic-Jewish relations by making the fruits of Holocaust scholarship accessible to educators at every level, especially in Catholic colleges and universities throughout the United States. To this end, the Center sustains a vital cooperative program with Yad Vashem and designs events to assist educators in shaping appropriate curricular responses for students of every age.

Services: Annual Catholic Institute for Holocaust Studies in Israel; Triennial Holocaust Ethel LeFrak education conferences; Seton Hill University's Genocide and Holocaust Online Graduate Certificate Program; Annual interfaith Kristallnacht and Yom Hashoah commemorations; Library collection including middle and high school curricular trunks; On-campus programs, exhibits, lectures; Curriculum consultation

Publications: Proceedings of the Ethel LeFrak Holocaust Education Conferences; The Holocaust: A Teaching Guide for Catholic Schools by Daniel C. Napolitano; Fifth and Sixth Nostra Aetate booklets featuring remarks by Rev. John T. Pawlikowski, OSM and Dr. Eugene J. Fisher

Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh

Address: 0 Woodland Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Phone: 412-421-1500
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Website: https://hcofpgh.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HCofPgh/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hcofpgh/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Emily Loeb, Director of Programs & Education
Principal Staff Members:
Cristina Sahovey, Operations Manager Coordinator
Noah Schoen, Community Outreach Associate
Julia Gaetano, Marketing and Education Associate
Marcel Walker, CHUTZ-POW! Coordinator

Year Established: 1980
Staff: Salaried - 5; Volunteer - 20

Type of Organization or Mission: The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh connects the horrors of the Holocaust and antisemitism with injustices of today. Through education, the Holocaust Center seeks to address these injustices and empower individuals to build a more civil and humane society.

Services: Public exhibit "Revolving Doors," engaging cultural events, internationally renowned speakers, free and affordable resources for teachers and students, events and productions, Holocaust survivors and Generations Speakers Series, education outreach and curriculum implementation for schools and school districts, Waldman International Arts and Writing competition - open to middle and high school students, Holocaust Educator of the Year award, Commemorative programs, LIGHT Education Initiative, and library and archive.

Publications: The Holocaust Testimony Project capsules of local survivor, liberator and Righteous Gentile stories; Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust (Oxford University Press); Mazel - an original play based on local survivors' stories; From Pittsburgh to Poland: Lessons of the HolocaustThe Gate is Open...You Can GoCHUTZ-POW!: Superheroes of the Holocaust comic book series.

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