Holocaust Resources And Organizations In Southeast Pennsylvania

Local office of ecumenical German peace and service organization, including Holocaust education. Speakers available.

Programs to combat racial, ethnic, and religious prejudice, including Holocaust publications, teaching aids, videos, workshops, and in-service teacher training.

Organization for survivors of the Holocaust.

Educational resource center and video lending library. Consultation for Holocaust educators available through a series of workshops for teachers in Jewish schools. Coordinator of March of the Living, a two-week program in Poland and Israel for Jewish students in 11th and 12th grades in alternate years. Publication: Bi-annual newsletter for Holocaust educators. Co-sponsors Mordechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Contest with Jewish Community Relations Council.

Sponsor of award and ceremony which honors young people of high school age who most exemplify the lessons of the Holocaust by their involvement in community service.

Local chapter of International Federation of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors. Speakers available.

1. SAMUEL NETZKY DIVISION OF CONTINUING EDUCATION
CONTACT: DR. JERRY KUTNICK, DIRECTOR
Courses for college credit and personal enrichment, including Holocaust studies and teaching methodology.

2. HOLOCAUST ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVE
CONTACT: JOSEY G. FISHER, DIRECTOR
Resource Center of first-hand accounts. Archive with approximately 800 audio-taped interviews of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust. Many transcriptions available as well as unpublished memoirs, letters, and diaries.

3. TUTTLEMAN LIBRARY
CONTACT: REBECCA LANDAU, DIRECTOR
College library with extensive Holocaust holdings, including scholarly reference collection, documents and monographs; antisemitica; educational resources; adult and children's literature; music and videos.

Task force supporting Holocaust education throughout Pennsylvania. Sponsors courses, workshops, in-service teacher training, and provides information regarding resources. Designated by the Pennsylvania Department of Education as coordinating body for Holocaust Education.

Interreligious, interracial group of educators, theologians, and community leaders. Sponsors educators' conferences, community-wide programs and exhibitions, and seminarian dialogue.

1. SPEAKERS' BUREAU
CONTACT: MIRIAM BEDEIN, CHAIRPERSON
MARSHA ROSENBAUM, COORDINATOR
Includes survivors, child survivors, children of survivors, and other specialists in Holocaust-related subjects. Please allow 3-4 weeks notice.

2. MEMORIAL COMMITTEE FOR SIX MILLION JEWISH MARTYRS
A. MORDECHAI ANIELEWICZ CREATIVE ARTS CONTEST co-sponsored with the Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education
CHAIRPERSON: MAUREEN PELTA
CONTACT: MARIAN LEVINE
Annual contest for high school students of original written, musical, art or creative dance works focused on Holocaust themes. Reading and media resource list supplied for teachers and students.

B.YIZKOR MEMORIAL SERVICE (YOM HA'SHOAH)
CHAIRPERSON: STEFANIE ELTZER
CONTACT: MARIAN LEVINE
Annual community-wide commemoration.

C. YOUTH SYMPOSIUM ON THE HOLOCAUST
CHAIRPERSONS: DR. PAUL WINKLER AND SR. JOSEPHINE KASE
CONTACT: LAUREN EHRLICH

Annual day-long program for public, private, and parochial high school students, including film, presentations by survivors, guest speaker, and workshops led by area educators.

Sponsors three-week summer seminar for U.S. public secondary school educators who are committed to teaching in their classrooms about the Holocaust and Jewish resistance. Program located in Israel with stop in Poland.

Regional group of Kindertransport members - 10,000 Jewish children between the ages of 3-17, without their parents, primarily German and Austrian, taken in by England after Kristallnacht in November, 1938 until the outbreak of World War II in September 1939. Information and speakers available.

Organization focusing on issues of understanding, tolerance and non-violence through curriculum development; publishing, teaching materials and programs including teaching about the Holocaust.

Interfaith educational organization, including publications, newsletter, and Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches.

Organization for children of Holocaust survivors. Speakers available.

How could the Holocaust have occurred? How can stereotyping and prejudice lead to discrimination, violence, and genocide? Can individuals make a difference? How can we teach young people about the Holocaust? How can we answer the unanswerable? Lessons of the Holocaust reflect current concerns with violence, racism and propaganda, ethical aspects of science and government. This unique course/workshop will provide educators with significant background for discussing these questions and introduce them to classroom-tested teaching strategies, curricula and resources. Josey Fisher - Instructor
Call: Dr. Jerry Kutnick, Director of Continuing Education, Gratz College (215) 635-7300, for information.

Holocaust Resources And Organizations In Delaware

Organization involved in continuing efforts to inform educators about the Holocaust and the importance of including it in the school curriculum, as well as in providing Holocaust-oriented books to schools and churches. Sponsors a speakers' bureau of survivors. Completed a project to videotape survivor testimony which aired on Channel 12 in 1991. VHS copies of the tapes are housed in the special collections section of the Morris Library, University of Delaware, and at Yale University.

Holocaust Resources And Organizations In South Jersey

Provides guided tours for students, and assistance for teachers from all types of schools. Exhibits feature a variety of artifacts, including posters. The Education Center has a Holocaust reference library, and sponsors a speakers' bureau composed of survivors, liberators, and members of resistance forces. It also offers special lectures and seminars.