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Address: Edmond J. Safra Plaza
36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
Phone: 646-437-4200
Box Office: 646-437-4202
Email: https://mjhnyc.org/contact-us/
Website: https://mjhnyc.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MuseumofJewishHeritage
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MuseumJewishHeritage
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/museumjewishheritage/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Jack Kliger, President and CEO, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Principal Staff Members:
Avraham Groll, Executive Director of JewishGen.org<http://JewishGen.org>

Year Established: 1984, opened to the public 1997

Days and Hours Open to the Public: https://mjhnyc.org/visitor-information/

Type of Organization or Mission: The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is New York’s contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. The Museum is committed to the crucial mission of educating diverse visitors about Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust. As a place of memory, the Museum enables Holocaust survivors to speak through recorded testimony and draws on rich collections to illuminate Jewish history and experience. As a public history institution, it offers intellectually rigorous and engaging exhibitions, programs, and educational resources.

Services: Public programs; Library; Research; Teacher trainings; Curricula and other educational resources; Internships; Café; Memorial garden; Speakers’ bureau; Film festivals; Museum shop; Audio tours; Docent-led tours; Special Exhibitions Galleries; Membership; Event rental spaces

Exhibits: Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.; Ordinary Treasures: Highlights from the Museum of Jewish Heritage Collection

Address: Monroe Community College
Attn: Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project
1000 East Henrietta Road
Rochester, NY 14623
Phone: 585-292-3321
Fax: 585-292-3832
Website: https://www.monroecc.edu/organizations/holocaust/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Jodi Oriel, Director, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Principal Staff Members:
Michael Boester, Endowed Chair, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Janet Ekis, Public Relations, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Sherry Parks, Administrative Assistant, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Year Established: 1991
Holocaust Human Rights Resource Center at LeRoy V. Good Library
Lori Annesi, Special Collections Librarian, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Type of Organization or Mission: The mission of the project is to tell the stories of the Holocaust and other genocides while transforming individuals to become advocates for human rights. Project members and advisors work to educate, commemorate and advocate.

Services: Yom HaShoah and Kristallnacht Commemorations; Study trip to USHMM; Lecture series; Film and book discussion series; Human rights programs; Faculty enrichment sessions; Student-led programs and Water for Sudan fundraising efforts

Address: 527 Hudson Street, #20171
New York, NY 10014
Phone/Fax: 917-763-9500
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Website: https://memoryprojectproductions.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheMemoryProject

Director/Person-in-Charge: Laurie Weisman, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members:
Roz Jacobs, Creative Director
Samantha Weisman, Assistant Director

Year Established: 2008
Staff: Salaried - 2

Type of Organization or Mission: The mission of The Memory Project Productions is to promote social justice through art and remembrance. We engage people in art and personal stories to: Honor the lives of Holocaust victims, survivors, and rescuers; Help people remember and honor their own family stories; Understand our place in history; and Appreciate the value of memory and the creative process.

Core Beliefs: As descendants of Holocaust survivors, we have a particular responsibility to fight intolerance and promote understanding; sharing stories through creativity makes tangible connections to the past and emotional bonds between people in the present; and experiencing art provides opportunities to see and connect with the world more fully.

Publications: Finding Kalman: A Boy in Six Million by Roz Jacobs and Anna Huberman Jacobs; The Memory Project: Connecting Art and History Curriculum Guide; Finding Kalman, award-winning documentary film (available with subtitles in Spanish and English); Memory Project Portrait Cards; Messages From Survivors Shoebox Cards

Exhibits: 
Messages From Survivors - A scalable and replicable exhibit for museums, schools, libraries and community centers. Short videos and panels provide an intimate view of one family’s experiences and transmit the reality and immensity of the Holocaust.  A take-home component provides community engagement:https://memoryprojectproductions.com/messages-from-survivors

Finding Kalman - A traveling multimedia exhibit interweaves a Holocaust survivor's story of the brother she lost in a kaleidoscopic video grid that displays portraits of the boy being made. Available in English, Polish and Hungarian: https://memoryprojectproductions.com/finding-kalman-exhibit

Never Again—Again - A traveling exhibit with six paintings and a video highlighting the stories of six survivors of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: https://memoryprojectproductions.com/rwanda-never-again-again

Curriculum Materials: 
The Memory Project Curriculum Kit - Turnkey curriculum kit links art and history through portrait-making and interviews. Curriculum materials for Never Again—Again 

Services: 
Traveling exhibits; Workshops connecting art and history; Remembrance Portrait Gallery, support materials for exhibitors: https://memoryprojectproductions.com/portrait-gallery; Portrait of the Month - monthly feature of a portrait and story from the online remembrance gallery; Online film screenings and discussions.

Address: 58 East 79th St.
New York, NY 10075
Phone: 212-249-5384
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Website: https://www.toli.us
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theolgalengyelinstitute/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/olgas_table
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theolgalengyelinstitute/

Director/Person-in-Charge and Principal Staff Members:
Deborah Lauter, Executive Director, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mark Berez, President
Oana Nestian Sandu, Director, International Programs
Jennifer Lemberg, Associate Director, US Programs
Sondra Perl, Senior Director, US Programs

Year Established: 1962
Type of Organization or Mission: Professional development for teachers in Holocaust and human rights education.

Services: TOLI offers professional development programs to educators who teach about the Holocaust, other genocides, and human rights in the United States and abroad. TOLI was established to continue the work of Olga Lengyel, Holocaust survivor and author of Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz, who made it her life’s work to educate future generations about the Holocaust and its relevance today. TOLI seminars provide teachers with innovative teaching methods and materials and introduce them to some of the fundamental principles of contemporary Jewish life.

Publications: Reading, Writing, and Teaching the Holocaust I & II - educational DVDs, with the Holocaust Educators Network

Address: One Campus Road
Staten Island, NY 10301
Phone: 718-390-3309
Fax: 718-420-4158
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website: https://wagner.edu/holocaust-center/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Lori R.Weintrob, Director
Co-Founded by: Dr. Stephen Greenwald

Year Established: 2014

Type of Organization or Mission: To promote education about the impact of prejudice, intolerance, and antisemitism, as a critical component ofˇ 21st century learning; to engage youth and community members, with special attention to creating ties to local Holocaust survivors to ensure that the persecution and genocide of the Jews and others during an since World War II are never forgotten or repeated.

Services: Internships: Wagner students visit schools with survivors, gather testimony and interpret the holocaust through film, theater and art; Education outreach: 5th to 12th grades; Education travel programs: Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow, Auschwitz; Exhibits and collections: oral histories, artifacts, art, photography; Speakers series; Commemorations: Kristallnacht, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah; Research assistance to teachers and students

Publications: Tragedy and Resilience: Holocaust Survivors of Staten Island (Exhibits of artifacts and photos original drawings by survivors)

Address: PO Box 1444
New York, NY 10113
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website: https://kindertransport.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KindertransportAssociation

Twitter/X: @ktaKinder
Instagram: @ktaKinder

Director/Persons-in-Charge: Ora Gordon, President; Melissa Hacker, Executive Director
Staff: Salaried-1 

Year Established: 1990
Type of Organization: 501(c)3

Mission: The Kindertransport Association is a non-profit organization founded by Kindertransport survivors. An intergenerational grassroots organization, the KTA Connects these Child Holocaust Survivors and descendants, educates by sharing their stories, and supports and advocates for children at risk today. 

Services: Exhibit - The Kindertransport Journey, Memory Into History (available for lease). Our Speaker Training classes create a Speakers Bureau of trained Kinder, KT2s and KT3s to speak in schools, to teacher trainings, and elsewhere, in person and on zoom. We host online book talks, film screenings, and social chats to connect the Kindertransport community, and gather in person when we are able. 85th year activities include an exhibit at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, and a commemorative trip to London and Harwich, where the ferries carrying Kindertransport children landed.

Publications: Kinderlink (quarterly)

Address: 2 West 45th St., Suite 1500
New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-869-6800
Fax: 212-869-6822
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Website: https://www.motl.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Shmuel Rosenman, Chairman

Year Established: 1993
Staff: Salaried - 3

Type of Organization or Mission: Educational Programming

Services: Two weeks educational programming for high school students in the spring (1 week - Poland; 1 week - Israel)

Publications: Semi-Annual Newsletter; Brochures; The March of the Living: A Follow-Up Study of Its Long Range Impact and Effects; To Know and to Remember - March of the Living 1992; March of the Living 1992 - Excerpts from My Journal - Dara Horn; Liberating the Ghosts - Photographs and text from The March of the Living by Raphael Shevelev with Karne Schomer; Reflections: Jewish Youth Confront the Holocaust; March of the Living 1992; March of the Living 1994; March of the Living 1996; Video: March of the Living - Recruitment tape

Address: c/o Landman
261 Broadway, 8C
New York, NY 10007
Phone: 212-233-7867
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Website: https://www.infotrue.com/gay.html

Director/Person-in-Charge: Rick Landman, Co-Chair; Yolanda Potasinski, Co-Chair

Year Established: 1991

Type of Organization or Mission: To honor and remember those of the (LGBT) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community who were persecuted or killed during the Nazi era, and to support the LGBT children (grandchildren) of Holocaust survivors and their families.

Services: Speakers' bureau Holocaust commemorations in memory of those other Victims killed during the Nazi era; Inclusive civil rights programs; Social justice performance

Address: 338 Harris Hill Road, Suite 108B
Williamsville, NY 14221
Phone: 716-463-5072
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website: https://buffalojewishfederation.org/herobuffalo/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/HRCOB

Director/Person-in-Charge: Lauren Bloomberg, Director

Year Established: 1983
Staff: Salaried - 1; Volunteer - 3

Type of Organization or Mission: Educational Resource Center; Library: vertical file, videotapes, oral history collection (103 testimonies of local survivors, liberators and Righteous Gentiles)

Services: Annual teacher workshops; Speakers' bureau; Loan program for schools - Book boxes, posters and videos; Teacher training; Group programs; Curriculum development; Tracing counseling; Free video lending library for teachers in the United States; Teaching trunks (middle school); Oral testimony catalogue

Address: 145 College Road
Library Room 4110
Suffern, NY 10901
Phone: 845-574-4099
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Website: https://www.holocauststudies.org

Director/Person-in-Charge: Andrea Winograd,Executive Director
Principal Staff Members: 
Geri Myer, Finance Manager
Julie Golding, Curator
Georgia Kass, Survivor Outreach

Year Established: 1979 (by State Charter) 1988 as museum and resource center
Staff: Salaried - 4; Volunteer - 100

Mission: Our mission is to educate, through the lens of the Holocaust, about the dangers of intolerance, to invoke critical thinking, and to inspire moral courage in the face of injustice.

Services: School and group visits; Commemoration ceremonies; Lectures, films, library and resource center; Speakers' bureau; Teacher resource center and teacher training seminars; Survivor support, outreach and programming; Traveling exhibits, learning trunks, and off-site presentations