Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights

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: 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: 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: 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: 1663 East 17th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11229
Phone: 718-338-0679
Fax: 718-732-1130
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Website: https://www.rlgfoundation.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Joseph Geliebter

Year Established: 1989

Type of Organization or Mission: An educational foundation

Services: Funding projects; Information and referral center for individuals and families

Publications: The World That Was: Poland; Ashes to Renewal

Media: V'Nikdashti; Pikuach Nefesh; Shanghai Miracle; Sh'eiris Hapleitah; Monsieur; Strike on Heaven

Address: 11 Riverside Drive, Suite 3RE
New York, NY 10023
Phone: 212-799-0887
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Website: https://www.rememberwomen.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel
Principal Staff Members:
Dr. Sonja M. Hedgepath
Karen Shulman

Staff: Salaried - 1; Volunteer - 3

Type of Organization or Mission: A research institute that conducts and encourages research and cultural activities that contribute to including women in Holocaust history.

Services: Research on women and the Holocaust; Exhibits; Academic symposia and conference panels; public events

Publications: Publisher: VIOLATED! Women in Holocaust and Genocide (print and online editions); Women, Theater, and the Holocaust Resource Handbook, (online) Fifth Edition. Co-publisher: The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp; Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women during the Holocaust; Fiorello's Sister: Gemma La Guardia Gluck's Story; Mielec: The Shtetl that Became a Concentration Camp

Exhibits: VIOLATED! Women in Holocaust and Genocide; Gemma LaGuardia Gluck; Women of Ravensbrück; Portraits of Courage: Art by Julia Twerwilliger

Address: 1 Tennyson Place
Greenlawn, NY 11740
Phone: 877-797-9759
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Website: https://www.sousamendesfoundation.org/

Director/Persons-in-Charge: Dr. Olivia Mattis, Board President
Principal Staff Members:
Mariana Abrantes de Sousa, Treasurer
Dr. Heidi Omlor, Chair, Educational Initiatives Committee

Year Established: 2010

Type of Organization or Mission: The Sousa Mendes Foundation, dedicated to honoring the memory of Aristides de Sousa Mendes and to educating the world about his good work, has a two-fold mission: raising funds for the Casa do Passal and the creation within its walls of a museum and memorial site; and sponsoring US-based projects that perpetuate his legacy. These projects will include: identifying and locating families rescued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes and obtaining their testimonials; supporting the publication of scholarly work on the Holocaust, its victims and its rescuers; creating exhibitions and other educational materials about the Holocaust, its victims and its rescuers; additional efforts to promote widespread knowledge about Aristides de Sousa Mendes and bring honor to his memory. 

Address: Ammerman Campus
Huntington Library 102
533 College Road
Selden, NY 11784
Phone: 631-451-4117
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Website: https://www.sunysuffolk.edu/experience-student-life/csjhu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CSJHU/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Jill Santiago
Principal Staff Members:
Jodi Moran, Secretary

Year Established: 2003
Staff: Salaried - 3

Type of Organization or Mission: Resource Center

Services: Educational programs; Historical preservation of artifacts, photographs and documents

Address: P.O. Box 32146
Edwin Duncan Hall, Room 118
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
Phone: 828-262-2311
Fax: 828-262-6803
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Website: https://holocaust.appstate.edu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Center4JHPS/?fref=ts

Director/Person-in-Charge: Amy Hudnall, Interim Director, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Principal Staff Members:
Dr. Zohara Boyd
Dr. Rosemary Horowitz

Year Established: 2002

Type of Organization or Mission: To develop new educational opportunities for students, teachers, and the community. The Office seeks to strengthen tolerance, understanding, and remembrance by increasing the knowledge of Jewish culture and history, teaching the history and meaning of the Holocaust, and utilizing these experiences to explore peaceful avenues for human improvement.

Services: Sponsorship of the annual "Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Holocaust Symposium" for public school teachers, Appalachian students and faculty, and the community; Organization of public lectures, enrichment seminars, weekend workshops, campus exhibits, and special events for academic and community audiences; Sponsorship of outreach presentations and teacher development workshops for public school teachers and the community; Support of undergraduate curricular offerings in Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies on and off campus and development of an undergraduate minor; Organization of research symposia and scholarly conferences; Development of a Teaching Resource Center; Research endeavors for students at Holocaust research centers in the U.S. and Europe; Supporting courses on the Holocaust, Modern Genocide, and Judaism

Address: 1900 Selwyn Ave.
Charlotte, NC 28274
Phone: 704-688-2775
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Website: https://www.stangreensponcenter.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreensponCenter
Twitter: @GreensponCenter

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

Principal Staff Members:
Judy LaPietra, Associate Director, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Year Established: 2016
Staff: Salaried - 8

Type of Organization or Mission: Holocaust Center

Services: Teacher education; Teacher resources; Social justice advocacy training