Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center - Queensborough Community College/CUNY

Address: 222-05 56th Avenue
Bayside, NY 11364
Phone: 718-281-5770
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Website: https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qcc_khc/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/khcqcc
YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/2p8sj8tw

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Laura Cohen, Executive Director
Principal Staff Member:
Borana Somen, Administrative Coordinator

Year Established: 1983
Staff: Salaried - 2

Type of Organization or Mission: The mission of the KHC is to use the lessons of the Holocaust to educate current and future generations about the ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping. The KHC is a part of Queensborough Community College and is the only 9,000 square foot space devoted to Holocaust education, including a dedicated building, specialized library, and exhibition galleries, within the City University of New York (CUNY). 

Programs and Services: The KHC hosts a range of programs about Holocaust memory and its ongoing impact across, as well as relevancy to, societies around the world through annual commemorations, special events, student-focused initiatives, our QCC-faculty led National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) colloquia series, and lectures about our originally-researched exhibitions.

Publications: Humanistic Pedagogy Across the Disciplines: Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education in the Community College Context (Leshem & Traver, Palgrave 2018) and exhibit catalogues (available on the KHC's website)

Address: Four West Red Oak Lane
Suite 204
White Plains, NY 10604
Phone: 914-696-0738
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Website: https://hhrecny.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HHREC
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/humanrights2900

Director/Person-in-Charge: Millie Jasper, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members:
Steve Goldberg, Director of Education

Year Established: 1990
Staff: Salaried - 7; Volunteers - 100

Type of Organization or Mission: Educational Outreach

Services: Professional Development for Teachers; Holocaust Survivors Speakers Bureau; Internships; International/National Educational Trips; Distinguished Lectures and Commemorations; High School and Middle School Human Rights Institutes, 2^nd and 3^rd Generation Workshops and Speakers Bureau, Downloadable Holocaust Curriculum, Traveling Exhibits

Media: Testimony of the Human Spirit, DVD and teachers' guide

Address: Manhattan College
4513 Manhattan College Parkway
Bronx, NY 10471
Phone: 718-862-7284
Fax: 718-862-8044
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Website: https://www.hgimanhattan.com/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Mehnaz M. Afridi

Year Established: 1997

Type of Organization or Mission: Academic resource institution

Services: Lectures; Workshops; Exhibitions; Theatre

Address: Welwyn Preserve
100 Crescent Beach Blvd.
Glen Cove, NY 11542
Phone: 516-571-8040
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Website: https://www.hmtcli.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HMTCNY

Director/Person-in-Charge: Moji Pourmoradi, Executive Director, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Year Established: 1986 (open to the public 1994)
Staff: Salaried - 6 f/t, 4 p/t; Volunteer - 130

Days and Hours Open to the Public: https://www.hmtcli.org/hours-of-operation

Type of Organization or Mission: Educational, Resource Center and Training Institute; Library and Archive; Multimedia museum and exhibit gallery

Services: Interactive tolerance & anti-bullying workshops; Speakers' bureau; Lending library; Law enforcement training; Teacher resource center; Holocaust exhibits and history programs; Traveling exhibits; Workplace diversity training; Student art and literary competitions; Commemorations; Film and lecture events; School programs and scholarships; Educational consultation and teacher and staff training; Tolerance training and lectures; Second generation group; One day teacher development workshops; Two-day teachers conferences; Holocaust & tolerance teaching trunks; Summer Holocaust Teachers Institute

Publications: Brochures; Newsletters; Educational DVDs; Survivor testimonies; Survivor Soulmates, 7-min. DVD & teachers guide depicting the bond between a Holocaust survivor and a survivor of the Rwandan genocide

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

Address: 338 Harris Hill Road, Suite 108B
Williamsville, NY 14221
Phone: 716-463-5072
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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: 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: 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: PO Box 1444
New York, NY 10113
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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: One Campus Road
Staten Island, NY 10301
Phone: 718-390-3309
Fax: 718-420-4158
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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)