Memberships

Texas Holocaust, Genocide and Antisemitism Advisory Commission (THGAAC)

Address: P.O. Box 12276 
Austin, TX 78711-2276
Phone: 512-463-5108
Email: https://thgaac.texas.gov/about/contact
Website: https://thgaac.texas.gov/
Friends of the THGC: https://thgaac.texas.gov/volunteer/friends-of-the-thgaac

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/THGAAC/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thgaac/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thgaac

Director/Person-in-Charge: Kenneth Goldberg, Chair; Joy Nathan, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members:
Arielle Epstein, Regional Coordinator & Communications Specialist
Lauren Fryer, Regional Coordinator & Volunteer Specialist
Elizabeth Langford, Executive Assistant
J.E. Wolfson, PhD, THGAAC State Coordinator of Education
Cheyanne Perkins, Regional Coordinator & Grants Specialist

Year Established: 2021

Mission: The mission of the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission (THGAAC) is to combat and confront hatred, prejudice, and indifference by educating all Texans about the Holocaust and other genocides in an effort to dismantle antisemitism and prevent such future atrocities.

Services: Commissioners and staff members connect with thousands of Texans across the state each year by promoting Holocaust education, raising awareness about genocide, and educating Texans. They: Partner with community organizations and museums on programs, events, and outreach; Support schools with resources for Holocaust Remembrance Week and other curriculum needs; Provide opportunities for Texans to volunteer, host or speak at events, or become a Friend of the THGAAC; Support public officials to call out hate, fight for policies that combat antisemitism, and attend or speak at community events; and Provide grants to Texas nonprofits that offer services or programs related to or in support of THGAAC’s mission.

The Blue Card

Address: 171 Madison Ave., Room 1405
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212-239-2251
Fax: 212-594-6881
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Website: https://bluecardfund.org/

Director/Persons-in-Charge: Mark Bilski, Co-President; Mimi Lieber, Co-President; Gia Machlin, Chairman; Marsha Girshin, Executive Director

Year Established: 1939
Staff: Salaried - 2; Volunteer - 50

Type of Organization or Mission: The Blue Card, Inc. was founded in 1934 in Germany, by German Jews seeking to help other Jews flee the country's growing persecution. It was re-established in the United States in 1939. Its name comes from the blue cards issued to those given financial assistance.

Services: For many survivors, the losses they experienced decades ago are compounded by their current struggles to subsist on meager incomes; Emergency cash assistance - provides for survivors' most immediate needs by helping with the cost of dental care, medicine, rent, food and other essentials; Stipend programs - supports the most indigent survivors with monthly checks; Jewish holiday program - provides funds to allow survivors to celebrate the Jewish holidays with dignity and joy.

The Ninth Candle

Address: Box 166
4740 N Cumberland Ave
Chicago, IL 60656
Phone: 312-620-6025
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Website: https://theninthcandle.com
Instagram: @theninthcandle
Twitter: @theninthcandle
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theninthcandle/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-ninth-candle/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Luke Berryman, Founder
Board of Directors:
Dr. Aubrey Daniels
Tyler Duke
Both Long
Sarah Palomo
Dr. Scott Sandoval, President of the Board

Year Established: 2020
Type of Organization: 501(c)3 nonprofit

Mission: The Ninth Candle's mission is to end antisemitism by sharing knowledge. We fulfill this mission by partnering with schools across the United States to improve standards in Holocaust education.

Services: The Ninth Candle serves middle- and high schools with educational programs for students in grades six-through-twelve, and with professional development programs for teachers. Our programs are distinctive for being tailor made: each one is the outcome of a collaborative process in which we partner with the school to learn about their community and their goals. We also champion inquiry-based learning, using historical documents to help participants to understand how and why the Holocaust happened in the time and the place that did. Our programs are always offered free of charge.

Toronto Holocaust Museum

Address: 4588 Bathurst St.
Toronto, Ontario, M2R 1W6
Canada
Phone: 416-631-5689
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Website: https://torontoholocaustmuseum.org/

Director/Persons-in-Charge:
Dara Solomon, Executive Director 
Toby Abramsky, Chair

Principal Staff Members:
Rachel Libman, Chief Curator
Michelle Fishman, Director of Marketing and Communications
Carrie Swartz, Director of Museum Experience

Year Established: New museum opened in 2023; originally founded in 1985

Type of Organization or Mission: The Toronto Holocaust Museum inspires visitors to think deeply about the tragedies of the Holocaust and make connections between this history, world events, and contemporary Canadian life.

Services: Public programs; Exhibitions; Film lecture series; Survivor speakers; Holocaust Education Week; Commemorations; Teacher training and resources; Holocaust education courses; Museum tours; Survivor programs; and Interfaith dialogue.

 

Tucson Jewish Museum and Holocaust Center

Address: 564 South Stone Ave
Tucson, AZ 85701
Phone: 520-670-9073
Fax: 520-626-4824
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Website: https://www.jewishhistorymuseum.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Eric Schindler, Ph.D., President

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Address: 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place
Washington, D.C. 20024-2126
Phone: 202-488 -0400
Fax: 202-488-2690
TDD: 202-488-0406
Email: https://www.ushmm.org/online/form/contact-the-museum/input
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Website: https://www.ushmm.org/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/holocaustmuseum
Twitter: twitter.com@holocaustmuseum
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ushmm
Instagram: holocaustmuseum

Director/Person-in-Charge: Sara J. Bloomfield, Director
Principal Staff Members:
Sarah Ogilvie, Chief Program Officer
Diane Saltzman, Director, Constituency Engagement
Paul Shapiro, Director, International Affairs
Jordon Tannerbaum, Chief Development Officer
Michelle Stein, Director, Marketing and Communications
Yariv Lapid, Director, Levine Institute for Holocaust Education
Sarah Lumbard, Senior Digital Curator
Tad Stahnke, Director, Initiative on Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism
Gretchen Skidmore, Director, Educational Initiatives
Marcus Appelbaum, Director, Initiative on the Holocaust and Civic Responsibility 
Jennifer Ciardelli, Director, Initiative on the Holocaust and Professional Leadership
Jill Savitt, Acting Director, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide s/b Naomi Kikoler
Lisa Leff, Director, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
Rebecca Boehling, Director, National Institute for Holocaust Documentation
Naomi Kikoler, Director, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide 

Established: 1980, Chartered by Congress; opened: 1993
Staff: Salaried - 437; Volunteer - 435 (including 80 Holocaust survivors)

Days and Hours Open to the Public: https://www.ushmm.org/information/visit-the-museum/plan-your-visit

Type of Organization or Mission: A living memorial to the Holocaust, the USHMM inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity. Federal support guarantees the Museum's permanent place on the National Mall, and its far-reaching educational programs and global impact are made possible by generous donors. More than 40 million people have visited the Museum since it opened in 1993, and through its website, podcasts, social media channels, traveling exhibitions, and educational programs the Museum reaches millions more. In 2015 the website had more than 25 million visits from over 17 million visitors representing 239 countries and territories. (43.6 % were international visits.)
Significant sections are currently available in 15 languages including Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Urdu.

Services: For information about the Museum's Registry of Holocaust Survivors, contact (202) 488-6130; For information about requesting a Holocaust survivor to speak, please contact (202) 488-0414 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; The Museum has an extensive program of traveling exhibitions. For information, contact Christine Brown (202) 314-7848 (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.); The Museum has a research library and extensive archival holdings. Research questions including information from the International Tracing Service Archive may be directed to the library's reference desk at (202) 479-9717 and for archival research (202) 488-6113. Library website: www.ushmm.org/research/library; For information about the Museum's scholarly programs, contact the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, (202) 488-6162; For information about Museum membership, contact (202) 488-2642 or visit the Museum's website

Publications: The Museum publishes an Annual Report, a semi-annual magazine Memory & Action, a calendar, and numerous scholarly, programmatic, and general interest publications, many of which are available on the Museum's website and through its Museum Shop; Holocaust and Genocide Studies, a scholarly journal published by Oxford University Press in association with the Museum, is published 3 times a year. 

University of Miami Holocaust Teacher Institute

Address: 5202 University Drive, Suite 310G
Merrick Building, 310G
P.O. Box 248605
Coral Gables, FL 33124
Phone: 305-868-5127 
Fax: 305-532-2009
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Website: https://www.edu.miami.edu/our-work/institutes/holocaust-teacher-institute/index.html

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky, Dean; Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff, Director
Principal Staff Members:
Alissa Pardo Stein, Consultant to the Institute on Holocaust Related Projects

Year Established: 2001
Staff: Salaried - 5; Volunteer - 15

Type of Organization or Mission: University of Miami accredited teacher training center for South Florida; liaison with: Florida Holocaust commission Task Force, Miami-Dade County public schools, Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies

Services: In-service teaching workshops for classroom teachers and pre-service teachers; Lecture/film series; Community outreach; Teacher training institutes (college accredited)

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education

Address: University of Southern California
Leavey Library
650 W. 35th St., Suite 114
Los Angeles, 90089
Phone: 213-740-6001 
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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.

Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre

Address: #50-950 West 41st Avenue
Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 2N7
Canada
Phone: 604-264-0499
Fax: 604-264-0497
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Website: https://www.vhec.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theVHEC/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/theVHEC

Director/Person-in-Charge: Nina Krieger, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members: 
Lise Kirchner, Director of Education
Caitlin Donaldson, Associate Director of Collections & Exhibitions
Chase Nelson, Archivist
Jill Pineau, Librarian
Hannah Marazzi, Director of Communications and Special Projects
Abby Wener Herlin, Associate Director of Programs
Talia Mastai, Associate Managing Director
Ellie Lawson, Education Coordinator 

Year Established: 1983 (Education Centre opened in 1994)
Staff: Salaried - 5; Volunteer - 75

Type of Organization or Mission:  Through education and remembrance, the VHEC engages students, educators and the broader public in British Columbia and beyond with the history of the Holocaust — the Shoah — and its ongoing relevance. The Centre stewards Western Canada’s largest collection of Holocaust-related artefacts, Holocaust testimonies and archival documents. It also holds a comprehensive library of books, films, educational resources, as well as rare books and special collections

Services: Thematic and online Exhibitions; Holocaust survivor speakers; Collections – including audio-visual testimony, library and archives; Educational programs and workshops; Curriculum development; Teachers’ conferences and resources; District high school symposia; Docent led tours; Publishing; Survivors’ services; Survivor, child survivor and second-generation groups; Community-wide commemorative events.

Publications: Newsletter Zachor, Teachers’ guides; Audio-visual testimonies; Monographs and memoirs

 

Vermont Holocaust Memorial

Address: PO Box 436
Jeffersonville, VT 05464
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Website: https://www.holocaustmemorial-vt.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Debora Steinermann, President

 

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