Jewish World Watch

Address: 5551 Balboa Blvd.
Encino, CA 91316
Phone: 818-501-1836
Fax: 818-501-1835
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Website: https://jww.org/site/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JewishWorldWatch
Instagram: @JewishWorldWatch
Twitter: @jworldwatch

Director/Person-in-Charge: Serena Oberstein, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members: 
Jan Snider, COO
Amy Friedman Cecil, Director of Education
Jeff Hensiek, Director of Marketing & Communications
Courtney Hamilton, Director of Advocacy and Strategic Growth

Year Established: 2004
Staff: Salaried - 6; Volunteer - 25

Type of Organization: 501(c)(3)

Mission: Jewish World Watch (JWW) is an expression of Judaism in action. We bring help and healing to survivors of mass atrocities around the globe, and we seek to inspire people of all faiths and cultures to join us in the ongoing fight against genocide. Vision: We envision a compassionate community that is driven to act against genocide and mass atrocities worldwide. Values: Based on our history in the Holocaust and our Jewish values, we believe that we must speak out and act in the face of genocide and mass atrocities. We believe education can create global citizens. We believe you can choose. You can act. You can transform the world.

Services: Education - Speaking engagements; Community events; Seminars; Film screenings; Teen Ambassador Program (TAP); Advocacy - Petitions, Advocacy training; In-district meetings; Student activism; Holocaust and human rights education; Community outreach programs; Public programs

Address: 147 Cypress Street
Newton, MA 02459
Phone: 617-699-6857
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Website: https://www.lockerofmemory.com 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jungfernhofmemorial

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Karen Frostig
Principal Team Members: 
Dr. Richards Plavnieks, Chief Historian
Evan Robins, Research Coordinator
Kabren Levinson, Chief Technology Officer
MakerLab at Brandeis University - Designer/technologists
Ilya Lensky, Primary Advisor
Scientific team – led by Dr. Richard Freund, Holocaust archeologist, and geographer and cartographer

Year Established: 2019
Staff: Contracted specialists 5; Advisors 4

Type of Organization: NGO, Holocaust Memorial installed at the Jungfernhof concentration camp in Riga, Latvia

Mission: Recovering Holocaust history and memory about a forgotten camp, commemorating the intersection of Holocaust memory between Latvia, Germany and Austria

Services: Website; online database referencing 3984 victims and survivors; historic interactive timeline; search for mass grave containing 800 bodies; production of maps and infographics, immersive AR and VR environments to foster tools of engagement; project blog; exhibition; and memorial development.

Publication: Plavnieks, R. and Frostig, K. (2021). “Jungfernhof Concentration Camp.” In United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Vol 6. Lohse, A. (Ed.) (forthcoming).

Address: 121 Bennett Avenue Suite 12A
New York, NY 10033
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Website: https://fritzaschersociety.org
Facebook: @fritzaschersociety
Twitter: @Ascher_Society
Instagram: @fritzaschersociety

Director/Person-In-Charge: Rachel Stern

Year Established: 2014

Type of Organization: 501(c)(3)

Mission: The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art, Inc. re-discovers artists, whose careers were interrupted or destroyed by the Nazi terror regime, and who themselves were persecuted, ostracized or banned. International collaborations on exhibitions, research initiatives and publications in print and/or digital media introduce the work of these artists to an international public. 

Services: Touring exhibitions, research initiatives, publications in print and/or digital media, educational programs, lectures, panel discussions and conferences (both in-person and virtual)

Publications: Exhibition catalogues; regular newsletters; educational materials: https://fritzaschersociety.org/fritz-ascher/selected-publications/

Exhibits: Fritz Ascher, Expressionist (Berlin, 1893-1970); Immortality, Memory, Creativity, and Survival: The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana, Ronnie Cahana and Kitra Cahana

Traveling Exhibits: Art and Remembrance
Exhibit Name: Fritz Ascher, Expressionist (Berlin, 1893-1970)
Website Resource/Digital Exhibition: https://fritzaschersociety.org/fritz-ascher-themes-and-variations/
Size: 1,800-2,200 square feet; Availability: until 2025
Rental Fee: Yes – Call for fee plus shipping and insurance; Who Bears Fee: exhibitor
Contact: Rachel Stern (917-363-0056) or use website contact form: https://fritzaschersociety.org/contact/

Description: Fritz Ascher, Expressionist (Berlin 1893-1970) is the first ever comprehensive retrospective of Fritz Ascher’s art. Surviving two world wars and Nazi persecution in Berlin, Ascher developed his unique artistic voice in paintings, works on paper and poems. The exhibition shows a representative group of ca. 75 works (25 paintings and 50 works on paper) spanning Fritz Ascher’s oeuvre from first academic studies to monumental Expressionist figure compositions to mature landscapes. While hiding in 1942-45, Ascher wrote poems that are included as “unpainted pictures.”

Address: 500 W. 185th Street
New York, NY 10033
Phone: 646-592-6825
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Website: https://www.yu.edu/fish-center
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FishcenterYU

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Shay Pilnik, Director
Principal Staff Members: 
Hodaya Blau, Program Coordinator

Year Established: 2019
Staff: Salaried - 2; Faculty - 6

Type of Organization: University Holocaust Studies Program

Services: Through courses, lectures, conferences, research, and more, the Center is dedicated to the study of the Shoah (Holocaust) from a perspective steeped in the history, culture, religion, and spiritual life of the Jewish civilization annihilated by the Nazis and their collaborators. Professorial chairs in Holocaust studies; Lectures and public lectures by faculty; MA in Holocaust studies; Holocaust lecture series by renowned scholars; In person programming in Holocaust education

Address: 12701 North Scottsdale Road, #122
Scottsdale, AZ 85254
Phone: 480-792-6736
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Website: https://phxha.com/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Sheryl Bronkesh, President; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Principal Staff Members:
Leslie Feldman, Executive Director: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Year Established: 1985

Mission:  As a partnership of Holocaust survivors, their descendants and the larger community, we honor the memory and legacy of the survivors and victims, promote awareness of the Holocaust, provide education of this and other genocides, and contribute to tikkun olam, repair of the world.

Services: As a unique, regional resource for Holocaust education and remembrance, PHA promotes human dignity by inspiring people to speak out and take action against hate, bigotry, intolerance, and discrimination. The PHA has a long history of active involvement in both local and national Holocaust education and remembrance events. Started in Phoenix more than 36 years ago, the Phoenix Holocaust Survivors’ Association, as it was known then, was a place for Holocaust survivors to connect to others with similar experiences. At its core then, as it is now, was recognizing the importance of talking about the Holocaust. 3GAZ is a new group under the auspices of PHA for the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, and the future of Holocaust remembrance. Over the years, PHA expanded its focus to include not only survivors but also their descendants and the larger topic of genocide.

Address: 122 E. Culver St.
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Phone: 602-241-7870
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Website: https://www.azjhs.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cpjhc

Director/Person-in-Charge: Alisa Chatinsky, AZJHS Interim Executive Director
Principal Staff Members: 
Rabbi Jeffrey Schesnol, Director
Dr. Lawrence Bell, Cultural Director
Anthony D. Fusco Jr., M.Ed., M.S., Associate Education Director
Stacy Faherty, Associate Director Operations

Year Established: 1981
Staff: Salaried - 4; Part Time - 6; Volunteers - 7

Type of Organization: Non-Profit 501c (3) 

Mission or Purpose: The Arizona Jewish Historical Society (AZJHS) is a Phoenix Point of Pride, and its mission preserves and celebrates the rich heritage of Arizona’s Jewish communities, educates the public about the Jewish historical experience including the Holocaust, and promotes awareness of our state’s diverse history through arts, culture, and educational programming. The home of Phoenix’s first synagogue, the Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center has been restored as a cultural/educational resource for all Arizonans. Built in 1921, the historic temple served as a sanctuary, religious school, and gathering center for local Jewish community. It was also used as a church by Chinese and later, Spanish speaking Baptist congregations.  Situated in the arts district in downtown Phoenix, the AZJHS, CPJHC was established in 1981 and sits adjacent to the Burton Barr Library. In 2008 the AZJHS was designated a Phoenix Point of Pride Historical Landmark by the Phoenix City Council. The Hilton Family Holocaust Education Center will be built on our site and is scheduled to open in 2027.

Services: The AZJHShelps to make an emotional connection to the Holocaust through many of our programs, including book discussions, film series, concerts, genealogy club, gallery exhibitions, as well as our educational seminars.

Address: David Posnack Jewish Community Center
On the Nina & Louis Silverman Campus
5850 South Pine Island Road
Davie, Florida 33328
Phone: 954-434-0499
Fax: 954-434-1741
Website: https://www.dpjcc.org/activism-advocacy/mania-and-max-nudel-holocaust-learning-center/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Lea Shani, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Principal Staff Members:
Debbie Hochman
R’ Dr. Leon Weissberg

Staff: Salaried - 3; Volunteer -10
Year Established: 1989, renewed 2022

Type of Organization: Holocaust & Jewish Education Learning Center

Mission: The mission of Holocaust and Jewish Education at the David Posnack JCC is to enrich lives by connecting people through commemoration, education and inspiration and by remembering the past in order to build a committed future generation.

Services: Training docents to become facilitators of the educational program in the MMNHLC; Provide Holocaust education topics via videos to various groups in the community; Outreach to teachers teaching the Holocaust in various schools in Broward County (already conducted a teachers’ workshop with 50 teachers from 50 different schools); Broad Range of plans (Lessons from the Holocaust)

Address: 303 Arthur Ave North
Seaford, NY 11783
Phone: 516-785-7059
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Website: https://www.newcracow.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newcracowfriendshipsoc.org
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRpiyYExWoYfoyp4WoS3lBg
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ncfs_org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Steven Radwan, Board President, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Principal Staff Members: Rachele Zuckerman, Board Secretary

Established: 1965

Type of Organization or Mission: We are a non-profit international organization based in New York, established by survivors of the Holocaust from Krakow, Poland and which is carried on by their descendants. Our membership includes survivors and descendants from Krakow, Poland and any persons of Jewish extraction and/or their descendants who lived in the internationally recognized boarders of Poland during the interwar years 1921-1938/39.

Services: We maintain a welfare fund to aid Holocaust survivors and descendants as well as provide social and educational programming for our members and open to all.

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

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Website: https://jmuse.org
Phone: 212-320-9319

Director/Person in Charge: Michael S. Glickman, Founder & CEO

Year Established: 2019

Type of Organization or Mission: Philanthropy, Education

Services: jMUSE is an arts and culture venture founded on and committed to the principles of collaboration and exchange. It brings together institutions, experts and philanthropists to experiment with new ways to present important ideas and innovative content (with a primary focus on Jewish museums and Holocaust museums) in the U.S. and Europe.