Baltimore Jewish Council/Jewish Museum of Maryland Holocaust Programs

Address: 5750 Park Heights Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21215
Phone: 410-542-4850
Fax: 410-542-4834
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Website: https://www.baltjc.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Jeanette Parmigiani, Director of Holocaust Programs, BJC; Ilene Dackman-Alon, Jewish Museum of Meryland
Principal Staff Members:
Emily Braverman, Program Coordinator

Year Established: 1939
Staff: Salaried - 2; Volunteer - 5

Type of Organization or Mission: Community relations organization

Services: Speakers' Bureau; Commemorations; Lectures; Exhibits; Teacher-training workshops; Resource Center; Baltimore Holocaust Survivors and Descendants group

Address: 777 Elsbree St.
Fall River, MA 02720
Phone: 508-678-2811, ext. 2444
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Website: https://bristolcc.edu/about/inthecommunity/bristolholocaustandgenocidecenter/index.html

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Ron Weisberger
Principal Staff Members:
Linell Dean, Admin. Assistant
Dr. Howard Tinberg, Faculty Consultant

Year Established: 2013 

Type of Organization or Mission: The Center serves as a resource in the Southeastern Massachusetts region to provide education on the Holocaust and other genocides to middle, high school and college faculty and students as well as the general community.

Services: Speakers and conferences; Workshops on Holocaust pedagogy; A resource center with books, DVDs, online material and relevant artifacts; Support for courses on the Holocaust and other courses which integrate information on the Holocaust and other genocides.

Publications: Tinberg and Weisberger, Teaching, Learning and the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2014); Semi-annual newsletter

Address: 352 Lafayette St.
Salem, MA 01970
Phone: 978- 542-2314
Fax: 978-542-2858
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Website: https://www.salemstate.edu/chgs
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/212385072259274

Director/Person-in-Charge: Christopher Mauriello, Ph.D., Academic Coordinator; Dan Eshet, Ph.D., Program Director

Year Established: 2014

Type of Organization or Mission: A faculty-led academic center whose purpose is to advance interdisciplinary scholarship in the fields of Holocaust, genocide and memory studies, prepare educators to integrate the study of the Holocaust and genocide into curricula and serve as a regional, national and international resource for those preparing to teach, do research or work in the fields of comparative genocide, human rights, refugee/asylum law, and social/psychological issues of post-conflict societies.

Address: PO Box 620122
Newton, MA USA
Phone: 617-965-4570
Fax: 617-965-4577
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Director/Person-in-Charge: Richard E. Kaplan, Manager

Type of Organization or Mission: Subsidiary of The Seymour Kaplan Memorial Foundation

Address: 89 South Street, Suite 401
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: 617-232-1595
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Website: https://www.facinghistory.org/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Roger Brooks, President 
Principal Staff Members:
Abby Weiss, Smith Family Senior Vice President and Chief Officer, Program & Thought Leadership
Anne-Marie Fitzgerald, Vice President and Chief Officer, Operations & Advancement
Steve Becton, Chief Officer, Equity and Inclusion
Mariel Gonzales, Chief Officer, Finance & Talent
Lara Jordan James, Chief Officer, Marketing & Communications
Cameron Logan, Chief Officer, Technology & Innovation
Marc Skvirsky, Vice President, Special Initiatives
Dimitry Anselme, Executive Program Director for Professional Learning and Support
Brooke Harvey, Executive Program Director, Content Strategy
Jeremy Nesoff, Director of District Partnerships, Acting Director of Jewish Education

Year Established: 1976
Staff: Salaried - 170; Volunteer - 270

Type of Organization or Mission: Facing History and Ourselves is an international educational organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development and lessons of the Holocaust and other instances of genocide and collective violence, students make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives. Facing History conducts over 100 workshops, seminars, online courses and webinars for middle school and high school educators each year, providing interdisciplinary programs, resources and speakers that connect the past to the world today. A schedule of upcoming professional development programs and community events given at each of the nine offices, as well as downloadable study guides and other resources are available on the Facing History website.

Services: Professional development workshops (one and two-day) and institutes (3, 5 and 6 day) for middle and high school teachers; Jewish Education Project, resources and staff development for Jewish day schools; Conferences, community events, online forums and public exhibitions; Website for use by Facing History teachers including online discussions, unit outlines, lesson plans, teaching tips, and a resource library.

Publications: Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior (primary resource book); A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism; Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians; I Promised I Would Tell (Holocaust survivor memoir); Elements of Time (companion guide to Facing History's videotape collection of Holocaust survivor testimonies); Facing History and Ourselves: Jews of Poland; Fundamental Freedoms: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement; Stories of Identity: Religion, Migration and Belonging in a Changing World; What Do we do with a Difference? France and the Debate over Headscarves in Schools; Study guides for books, exhibits and films

Address: University of Massachusetts Amherst
758 North Pleasant St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Phone: 413-577-0221
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Website: https://www.umass.edu/ihgms/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Alon Confino, Director 

Year Established: 2011
Staff: Salaried - 2; Volunteer - 6

Type of Organization or Mission: Scholarly and Educational Institute

Services: Scholarly and research activites, conferences, workshops, talks, working groups, permanent exhibit, docent tours, school visits, library

Address: 950 Main St.
Worcester, MA 01610-1477
Phone: 508-793-8897
Fax: 508-793-8827
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Website: https://www.clarku.edu/centers/holocaust-and-genocide-studies/

Director/Person-in-Charge: Dr. Mary Jane Rein, Executive Director; Dr. Thomas Kuhne, Director; Prof. Deborah Dwork, Founding Director

Year Established: 1996
Staff: Chairs - 3; Assoc. Profs. - 15; Salaried - 6; Student Employees - 4; Volunteer - 1

Type of Organization or Mission: Doctoral and undergraduate program in Holocaust history and genocide studies; Research; Public Service / Education

Services: Public lectures; Research library; Internships

Address: PO Box 230206
Boston, MA 02123
Phone: 857-222-8262
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Website: www.terezinmusic.org 

Director/Person-in-Charge: Mark D. Ludwig, Executive Director
Principal Staff Members:
Lisa Pemstein, Public Relations Director
Debora Ramos, General Manager
Julie White, Treasurer
Kathleen Galscoigne, Volunteer Activities 

Year established: 1991
Staff: Salaried - 2; Volunteer - 12

Mission: Terezín Music Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to honoring the legacy of the Terezín artists with concert events, commissions, recordings, publications, master classes, and Holocaust education programs in the U.S. and Europe. 

Recordings: Chamber Music from Theresienstadt (Channel Classics CCS1691); Haas & Krása String Quartets (London DECCA); Erwin Schulhoff Concertos (London DECCA); Concert for Terezín (TMF label); Previn Plays Previn 2016 (TMF label); Viktor Kalabis: Music for Clarinet and Horn 2014 (TMF label); Silenced Voices: Victims of the Holocaust (Northeastern TMF)

Events and Services: Middle- and high-school Holocaust education programs; Do Not Forget Me multimedia concert program for schools, synagogues, and organizations; Will to Survive multimedia concert program for schools, synagogues, and organizations; Produces Yom HaShoah programs in US and Europe; Annual Prague Spring - Terezín Tour; Commissions music compositions as on-going memorial to victims of the Shoah; Ongoing collaboration with the Prague Spring International Festival; Annual Gala Concert, Symphony Hall, Boston

Documentaries: Terezín: Resistance and Revival; Entartete Musik: The Birth of a Project; Creating Harmony: The Displaced Persons' Orchestra from St. Ottilien; In The Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine; Remembrance, Creativity, and Transformatiion (NET production)

Publications: Liberation: New Poems on Freedom from Internationally Renowned Poets (Beacon Press 2015); Finding a Voice: Musicians in Terezín (Curriculum Guide)

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: 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