Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Address: P.O. Box 208240
Sterling Memorial Library
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203-432-1879
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Website: https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Stephen Naron
Principal Staff Members:
Debra L. Bush, Archives Assistant
Dr. Timothy Snyder, Faculty Advisor
Joanne Weiner Rudoff, Archivist
Geoffrey H. Hartman, Faculty Advisor Emeritus

Year Established: 1982
Staff: Salaried - 4; Volunteer - 2

Type of Organization or Mission: Archive of 4,500 videotapes

Services: Reference assistance for scholars and researchers; Videotaping of survivor and witness testimonies; Educational videotape loan program (The collection is open to researchers.)

Publications: Witness: Voices from the Holocaust (86 min.) National PBS broadcast, May 1, 2000; Witness: Voices from the Holocaust (Free Press, 2000)

Address: 475 Broad Street
New London, CT 06320
Phone: 860-443-8989
Fax: 860-442-4344
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Director/Person-in-Charge: Romana Strochlitz Primus

Year Established: 1975

Type of Organization or Mission: Provides small grants for Holocaust remembrance and education projects

Address: 20 Waterside Drive, Suite 100
Farmington, CT 06032                                                                   
Phone: 860-470-5591
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Website: https://www.ctvoicesofhope.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ctvoicesofhope/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ctvoicesofhope/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Peter Fishman, President
Principal Staff Members:
Kathy Fishman, Director of Operations
Robin Landau, Director of Programs and Development
Kimberly Ballaro, Director of the Holocaust Education Resource and Outreach (HERO) Center                                                                                                                                 

Year Established: 2016

Type of Organization: 501(c)(3) educational non-profit

Mission: Promoting a culture of courage to stand up against hatred through Holocaust and genocide education and remembrance.

Services: Founded by the descendants of Holocaust survivors, we hold numerous educational and commemorative events each year. Events and services include training and storytelling showcases for descendants of survivors, museum field trips, coordinating in-school speakers, professional development and materials for teachers, descendant book club and various cultural events such as films, art exhibits and book discussions.

Address: Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters 
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road AH 52, Suite 110 
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Phone: 561-297-2929
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Website: https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/pjhr/chhre/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Linda Medvin

Year Established: 1996

Type of Organization or Mission: To provide training and resources to educators and community organizations involved in Holocaust, genocide and human rights education.

Services: Resource center; Teacher training; Lending library; Speakers' bureau; Sponsor exhibits, commemorations, study tours and programs; Educational outreach; Summer Institute for Educators; Introductory and advanced workshops for K-12 teachers; Community Programs

Address: 55 Fifth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Phone: 727-820-0100
Fax: 727-821-8435
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Website: https://www.thefhm.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Nathaniel Doliner, Board Chairman; Elizabeth Gelman, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members:
Erin Blankenship, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections
Urszula Szczepinska, Curator of Education and Director of Research

Year Established: 1991
Staff: Salaried - 20; Volunteer - 220

Type of Organization or Mission: Museum, resource and educational center (Accredited by American Alliance of Museums)

Group Tours and Teaching Trunk Reservations: Elias Senoner, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Services: Exhibits (permanent and traveling); Author, artist lecture series; Summer Institute on the History of the Holocaust, Human rights and Genocide Studies; Teacher training - Pre-Service/In Service; Speakers' bureau; Video testimony project on survivors and liberators; Group tours; On-line teacher resources; Educational outreach; Teaching trunks with literature-based curricula (Holocaust history, other genocides, art); Nancy and Ray Murray Library and Tolerance Center; Commemorations; Survivor services; Generations After-for children and grandchildren of survivors; Museum store; Docent-led tours; Anne Frank Humanitarian Award

Publications: The Holocaust Classroom Connections: Guidelines for Holocaust Education Grades K-12; Tous Ensemble by Marc Ash, Exhibition Catalog; Samuel Bak, Return to Vilna, Exhibition Catalog; The Women of Ravensbruck: Portraits of Courage; Freedom Illuminated - The Haggadah, a Mirror of Jewish History: Its Agony and Triumph; William Pachner, Imagined Landscapes, Exhibition Catalog; We Were There... Memories of the Holocaust, edited by Ursula Szczepinska; Kaddish in Wood. Memorial Woodcarvings - The Children, and Kaddish in Wood. Memorial Woodcarvings - Ghettos, Camps and Partisans by Dr. Herbert Savel, edited by Ursula Szczepinska; Memorial Woodcarvings - Family Portraits; The Holocaust by Bullets: A Study Guide for Educators by Urszula Szczepinska - a joint project of Yahad-in Unum and the Florida Holocaust Museum

Address: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Miami Dade College-Homestead Campus
500 College Terrace
Homestead, FL 33030
Phone: 305-237-5267
Fax: 305-237-5066
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Website: www.mdc.edu/main/hgep 

Address: PO Box 16282
Tallahassee, FL 32317
Phone: 850-443-9649
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Website: https://holocaustresources.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HERCTallahassee

Director/Person-in-Charge: Barbara Goldstein, President
Principal Staff Members:
Rita Blank, Vice-President
Sam Kimelman, Treasurer

Year Established: 2009

Type of Organization or Mission: Florida Department of Education Task Force established to provide learning opportunities for teachers and community.

Services: Educational programs and curricula; Teacher training; Holocaust teaching trunks; Speakers' bureau; Online resources and tools; Public programs; Local writing and arts contest; monthly newsletter

Address: The Alvin Sherman Library
Nova Southeastern University
3100 Ray Ferrero Jr Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314
Phone: 954 389-9000
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Website: https://holocausteducationfund.com/index.html

Director/Person-in-Charge: Craig R. Weiner, President

Year Established: 2013
Staff: 7

Type of Organization: The Holocaust Learning and Education Fund, Inc., is the founding organization of two important Holocaust museums, both on major university campuses in South Florida. It provides operational funding for both museums and conducts several programs for student Holocaust education, as well as providing resources for educators and museum access to the general public.

Mission: Providing Holocaust education to Florida’s public and private schools and universities. The Craig and Barbara Weiner Holocaust Museum of South Florida is located in the Alvin Sherman Library at Nova Southeastern University. Additionally, the Craig and Barbara Weiner Holocaust Museum at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) located in Palm Beach County, Florida will open summer, 2025.

Services: Florida Holocaust Reflection Contest - Essay, art and documentary contests open to all Florida middle and high school students. Providing museum tours to schools as well as the general public at the Craig and Barbara Weiner Holocaust Museum of South Florida located at the Alvin Sherman Library of Nova Southeastern University. The all new Palm Beach County Holocaust Museum of South Florida at FAU will be open summer, 2025.

Address: 1933-1945 Meridian Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Phone: 305-538-1663 
Email: Info@holocaustmemorialmiamibeach.org
Website: https://holocaustmemorialmiamibeach.org

Director/Person-in-Charge: Sheri Zvi, Chief Executive Officer
Principal Staff Members:  
Jessica Katz, Chair
Sharon Horowitz, Executive Director: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Dr. Miriam Klein-Kassenoff, Education Co-Chairman
Dr. Nicole Freeman, Director of Education: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Lida Shukrie, Program Coordinator

Year Established: 1990
Staff: Salaried - 8; Volunteers - 35

Type of Organization or Mission: Holocaust education center featuring an outdoor sculpture garden and memorial to the memory of the six million Jewish people who perished in the Holocaust

Services: Commemorations; Exhibits; Lecture series; Educational programs; Teacher training seminar/institute; Community outreach program

Publications: Sculpture of Love and Anguish, by Kenneth Treister & Helen Fagin; Sculpture of Love and Anguish (video); Newsletter, The Legacy; Teacher/Student Resource Guide

Address: 851 N. Maitland Ave.
Maitland, FL 32751
Phone: 407-628-0555 
Fax: 407-628-1079
Email: https://www.holocaustedu.org/visit/admissions/
Website: https://www.holocaustedu.org

Director/Persons-in-Charge: Emily Sterling, Interim CEO: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Principal Staff Members:
Suzanne Grimmer, Director of Museum Operations: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Stephen Poynor, Director of Education: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Year Established: 1982
Staff: Salaried - 5; Volunteer - 50

Days and Hours Open to the Public: https://www.holocaustedu.org/visit/

Type of Organization or Mission: The Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida is a nonprofit, interfaith organization using the history and lessons of the Holocaust to build a just and caring community free of antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry.

Services: We are storytellers featuring Survivor testimonies, virtual reality technology and exhibitions. We provide lesson plans, teaching trunks and professional development for teachers as well as community education and in-classroom teaching for students in grades 6 and up in Holocaust history,  diversity and inclusion, and bully prevention. Our programming features lectures, speakers, workshops, dramatic presentations, films, and book clubs.

Publications: Newsletter, bibliographies, curriculum guides, teacher's guides