Memberships
Address: 67 South Bedford St., Suite 400W
Burlington, MA 01803
Phone: 206-527-1039
Fax: 610-283-8589
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Website: http://www.holocaustchild.org/
Director/Persons-in-Charge: Stefanie Seltzer, President; Steve Adler, Executive Vice-President
Year Established: 1997
Staff: Volunteer - 84
Type of Organization or Mission: World-wide umbrella organization of over 60 Child-Survivor Groups, in close affiliation with second Generation groups and individuals.
Services: Coordination of annual conferences; Networking for child survivor and second generation groups and individuals; Speakers Bureau; Provides child survivors for interviews via the internet; Remembrance projects; Twinning projects for Bar/Bat mitzvah; Research assistance to teachers and students
Publications: MISHPOCHA, a quarterly newsletter
Address: William Mitchell College of Law
875 Summit Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55105
Phone: 651-695-7621
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Website: https://worldwithoutgenocide.org/
Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Ellen J. Kennedy, Executive Director
Year Established: 2006
Type of Organization or Mission: The organization works to protect innocent people around the world by trying to prevent genocide, combating racism and prejudice, advocating for the prosecution of the perpetrators, and remembering those whose lives and cultures have been destroyed by violence.
Services: Speaker's bureau; Workshops and conferences; Educational materials; A genocide education certificate program; A travel program to Holocaust and other genocide sites; Awards to students and community leaders for genocide and anti-genocide activism
Publications: Upstanders - a readers' theatre play about people who took a stand against genocide, translated into Spanish, Oromo, and Somali; Upstanders; Ten Who Dared - 2nd edition
Media: Genocide Again: Darfur - a 30 minute documentary produced with Minnesota Public Television; Children of Genocide: Five Who Survived - a 30 minute documentary produced with Minnesota Public Television
Address: P.O.B. 3477
Jerusalem, Israel 91034
Phone: 972-2-644-3400
Fax: 972-2-644-3433
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Website: https://www.yadvashem.org
International School for Holocaust Studies: https://www.yadvashem.org/education/about-school.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/yadvashem
Twitter: https://twitter.com/yadvashem
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/yadvashem
Additional contact information: https://forms.yadvashem.org/contact-us
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Directors/Persons-in-Charge: Dani Dayan, Chairman and Tzvika Fayirizen, CEO
Principal Staff Members:
Shana Yerushalmi - Chief Financial Officer
Daniel Shalom - Chief Information Officer
Hadar Winter Golan - Director, Strategic Planning and Governmental Affairs Division
Dr. Haim Gertner - Director, Resource and Partnership Development Division
Medi Shvide - Director, Archives, Museums and Collections
Irit Filipowicz - Director, Archives Division
Dr. Gilad Olshtein - Lily Safra Chair of Holocaust Education; Director, International Institute for Holocaust Education
Dr. Yael Richler - Director, Content Development and Pedagogy, International Institute for Holocaust Education
Inbal Kvity Ben-Dov - Director, Commemoration, Culture, and Public Engagement Division
Iris Rosenberg - Director, International Affairs and Communications Division
Richelle Budd Caplan - Director, Global Initiatives Department, International Affairs and Communications Division
Ayala Cohen - Director, Human Resources and Operations Division
Dr. Iael Nidam-Orvieto - Director, International Institute for Holocaust Research
Dr. Robert Rozett - Senior Historian, International Institute for Holocaust Research
Dr. David Silberklang - Senior Historian, International Institute for Holocaust Research
Prof. Dan Michman - Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research. Incumbent of the John Najmann Chair for Holocaust Studies
Prof. Dina Porat - Senior Academic Advisor
Year Established: 1953
Staff: Salaried - 400; Volunteer - 700
Days and Hours Open to the Public: https://www.yadvashem.org/visiting.html
Type of Organization or Mission: Established in 1953 by an act of the Israel Parliament, Yad Vashem sits atop the Mountain of Remembrance in Jerusalem, its campus covering some 45 acres in total, containing the largest repository of information on the Holocaust in the world. Yad Vashem's principal missions are commemoration and documentation of the events of the Holocaust, collection, examination and publication of testimonies to the Holocaust, the collection and memorialization of the names of Holocaust victims, honoring the Righteous among the Nations, research, publication and education. The official national ceremony opening Holocaust Martyr's and Heroes remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) takes place annually at Yad Vashem, with additional memorial ceremonies, research conferences, exhibitions and cultural events held throughout the year.
Services: The Yad Vashem Archives house over 169,000,000 pages of documentation; 120,000 survivor testimonies; over 430,000 photographs and the online Central Database of Shoah Victim's Names contains 4.3 million names. Holocaust History Museum; Museum of Holocaust Art; Archives; International School for Holocaust Studies; International Institute for Holocaust Research; Library and Visual Center; Yad Vashem Publications; Righteous Among the Nations Department; Monuments and Memorial Sites: Valley of the Communities, the Children's Memorial, the Hall of Names, Memorial to the Deportees, the Hall of Remembrance, the Synagogue, the Garden of the Righteous, the Memorial Cave, and more.
Address: 146 West 25th Street, Ste 905
New York, NY 10001
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Website: https://yadvashemfoundation.org/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yadvashemusafoundation/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/yadvashemusafoundation/
Type of Organization: 501(c)3
Principal Staff Members:
National Director of Philanthropy: Tamar Major, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Deputy National Director of Philanthropy: Beth Katznelson, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Development Assistant: Olivia Strulowitz, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mission/Description of Organization: Yad Vashem USA Foundation is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides vital support for Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. As the leading center of Holocaust documentation, research, education, and commemoration, Yad Vashem strives to preserve the legacy of the victims and survivors while conveying the chronicles of this singular Jewish and human event to audiences around the world. Through its unique perspective and by highlighting individual voices from testimonies, diaries, artifacts, and other documentation, Yad Vashem continues to pave the way for a better future. The Yad Vashem USA Foundation is proud to support Yad Vashem in advancing its mission and passing the torch of remembrance from survivors to future generations, promoting awareness, and fostering a world where such atrocities are never repeated.
Address: 114, boulevard de Magenta
Paris 75010
France
Phone: +33 1 42 88 04 39
Fax: + 33 1 42 88 17 63
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Website: https://www.yiu.ngo/en
Facebook: www.facebook.com/yahadinunum
Director/Person-in-Charge: Patrick Desbois, President
Principal Staff Members:
Marco Gonzales, Director
Patrice Bensimon, Director of Research Center
Emmanuel Cortey, Deputy Director
Year Established: 2004
Type of Organization or Mission: An organization established by Father Patrick Desbois dedicated to systematically identifying and documenting the sites of Jewish mass executions by Nazi mobile-killing units in Eastern Europe during world war II. The objective of this work is to: 1) substantiate a “Holocaust by Bullets,” in addition to those Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps, 2) provide evidence of such mass executions to answer Holocaust deniers, 3) give proper respect to the victims’ burial places and enable their preservation, and 4) disseminate and help apply the universal lessons about genocide derived from the work of YIU.
Services: Resource center; Video testimonies (available for consultation at Yahad’s Research Center and online upon request; Photographs of execution sites of Jewish and roam victims, Soviet POWs and other victims killed by the Nazis and their allies in Eastern Europe; photographs of former ghettos, camps of Jewish prisoners, camps of Soviet POEs; Archives (Soviet, German, Romanian, Polish…) about the Holocaust in Eastern Europe; Development of tool kits to teach the Holocaust in Eastern Europe; Seminars and public lectures; National and international conferences; Teacher training workshops; Exhibitions of photography and video recorded testimonies documenting the process and results of Yahad’s research trips in Eastern Europe.
Media: https://www.yahadmap.org/#map/ (Interactive map of execution sites of Jewish victims)
Address: 15 West 16th 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: 2251 N. Rampart Blvd., #2520
Las Vegas, NV 89128
Phone: 800-575-9583
Fax: 702-974-1610
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Website: https://www.zachorfoundation.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZachorFoundationBenLesser/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Zachor18
Director/Person-in-Charge: Gail Lesser-Gerber
Principal Staff Members: Myrna Valdez
Year Established: 2009
Staff: Salaried - 1
Type of Organization or Mission: Remembrance and education organization
Services: Provides funding for the development of Holocaust curricula; Teacher scholarship for teacher training; Speakers' bureau; Distribution of 'Zachor' pins
Publications: Living a Life that Matters: From Nazi Nightmare to American Dream, By Ben Lesser
Address: 28123 Orchard Lake Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
Phone: 248-553-2400
Fax: 248-553-2433
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Website: https://www.holocaustcenter.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hmczfc
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/HolocaustMI
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holocaustmemorialcenter/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/HMCMichigan
Director/Person-in-Charge: Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld, Chief Executive Officer
Principal Staff Members:
Guy Stern, Director of the Harry and Wanda Zekelman International Institute of the Righteous
Ruth Bergman, Director of Education
Cheryl Guyer, Director of Development
Sarah Saltzman, Events Director
Beth Snider, Director of Annual Giving and Marketing
Feiga Weiss, Head Librarian/Archivist
Year Established: 1984
Staff: Salaried – 31; Volunteer – 200; Docents – 60
Days and Hours Open to the Public: https://www.holocaustcenter.org/visit/
Type of Organization or Mission: Our mission is to engage, educate, and empower by remembering the Holocaust.
Services: Guided public and school tours of our core and special exhibits. Most tours are accompanied by presentations given by local Holocaust Survivors; Public programs, lectures and commemorations; Professional development and continuing education training courses & seminars for teachers and docents; Single- and multi-day training workshops for school teachers throughout the state of Michigan; Anne Frank tree sapling; Statewide Annual Student Art & Writing Competition; Research Library-Archive; Genealogy research and tracing service; Oral History Collection; Artifact collection; Online Library catalog; Loan of audiovisual materials to educational institutions; Portraits of Honor and Survivor Portraits Gallery exhibits featuring Michigan survivors; Doris & Eric Billes Museum Shop
Publications: Newsletter (annual); The World Reacts to the Holocaust (1996); research project directed by the Holocaust Memorial Center, edited by David S. Wyman, and published by Johns Hopkins University Press; The Anne Frank Curriculum
