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This site was created by the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, Inc., located in Hollywood, Florida.
Please visit our web site:
Holocaust Documentation and Education Center
The Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, which began in 1980 as the Southeast Florida Holocaust Memorial Center, was envisioned by Arnold Picker and Abe Halpern as A Living Memorial Through Education – an ecumenical institution, rooted in eyewitness testimony. From its very beginning, the mission of the Center was defined by its name and included:
The first South Florida Holocaust Museum is anticipated to open in 12 to 18 months and will be the first in North America to tell the story of the Holocaust in both English and Spanish.
STUDENT AWARENESS DAYS Student Awareness Days are prejudice reduction symposia whereby high school, college, and university students in the tri-county area learn the dangers of racism, hatred, and bigotry through videos, lectures, and round table discussions with Survivors of the Holocaust. Students leave with a sense of awareness and understanding about the ramifications of prejudice and racism.
TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE ON HOLOCAUST EDUCATION The week-long, university accredited institute gives teachers the opportunity to learn directly from Holocaust Survivors. The State of Florida mandates that the Holocaust be taught from grades K – 12. To comply with the mandate, this institute is offered to teachers of all grade levels.
VISUAL ARTS AND WRITING CONTEST The annual Visual Arts and Writing Contest is open to students in grades 4 – 12 and to college and university students. The overall prize is a trip to Washington, D.C. to visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and to attend the Days of Remembrance Commemoration in the Rotunda of the Capitol Building. First place winners receive a $250 United States Savings Bond.
SPEAKERS’ BUREAU The Speakers’ Bureau sends Holocaust Survivors, liberators, and others to schools, churches, schools, organizations, city hall meetings, and commemorations throughout the year.
INTERVIEWS
While the scope of the Center’s activities has grown tremendously over the years, the collection and preservation of more than 2,500 interviews from among South Florida witnesses to the Holocaust and making them available and accessible for scholarly and educational purposes still remains at the heart of the Center’s mission. The unique qualities of the Center’s oral history collection of eyewitness testimonies are that the material is being cataloged and indexed into a database which can be searched by name, location, date, and other variables. The highly structured interviews are conducted with the utmost sensitivity. When completed, they are transcribed verbatim and bound on acid-free paper. The transcription and audit/editing process is supported by the work of volunteers. It is important to note that the Center is the only known institution that is transcribing verbatim each acquired interview.
COLLEGE-ACCREDITED INTERVIEWERS CLASS
Interviews are conducted by a core of volunteers who have completed a 54-hour, college-accredited training course. The interviews are recorded in professional recording facilities at our Center.
TESTIMONIES
We are still taking testimonies of Holocaust Survivors, liberators, and eyewitnesses.
MEMORABILIA, DOCUMENTS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS
We are actively searching for Holocaust memorabilia, documents, and photographs for use in our museum.
The library will provide access to reference and research materials on the Holocaust to teachers, students, researchers, and historians. In addition to more than 5,000 books, the library subscribes to more than a dozen periodicals. The library also has more than 100 DVDs on the Holocaust. We anticipate that the library will open in September, 2008!
BOOK CLUBS
The library will start two monthly books clubs when the reference and research library opens. One book club will be an Adult Book Club on the Holocaust, and the other will be a Teen and Young Adult Book Club on the Holocaust.
MEET THE AUTHOR SERIES
The library features Meet the Author Series and book signings. The meet the Author Series presents a different author of a Holocaust-related book every month at the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center.
Please see our web site at http://www.hdec.org for more information on all our programs.
Thank you!
This site was created by the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, Inc., located in Hollywood, Florida.
Please visit our web site:
Holocaust Documentation and Education Center
The Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, which began in 1980 as the Southeast Florida Holocaust Memorial Center, was envisioned by Arnold Picker and Abe Halpern as A Living Memorial Through Education – an ecumenical institution, rooted in eyewitness testimony. From its very beginning, the mission of the Center was defined by its name and included:
- documenting and preserving the eyewitness testimonies of Survivors, liberators, and eyewitnesses;
- bringing the living testimony of Survivors, liberators, and eyewitnesses and the lessons of the Holocaust into the classroom at every level;
- serving as a resource and reference for government, educational and human rights institutions, and organizations throughout the world seeking to document the Holocaust;
- being a non-denominational, non-profit, and documentation and education center, teaching pluralism and appreciation of all human life to a cross-cultural community.
The first South Florida Holocaust Museum is anticipated to open in 12 to 18 months and will be the first in North America to tell the story of the Holocaust in both English and Spanish.
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
STUDENT AWARENESS DAYS Student Awareness Days are prejudice reduction symposia whereby high school, college, and university students in the tri-county area learn the dangers of racism, hatred, and bigotry through videos, lectures, and round table discussions with Survivors of the Holocaust. Students leave with a sense of awareness and understanding about the ramifications of prejudice and racism.
TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE ON HOLOCAUST EDUCATION The week-long, university accredited institute gives teachers the opportunity to learn directly from Holocaust Survivors. The State of Florida mandates that the Holocaust be taught from grades K – 12. To comply with the mandate, this institute is offered to teachers of all grade levels.
VISUAL ARTS AND WRITING CONTEST The annual Visual Arts and Writing Contest is open to students in grades 4 – 12 and to college and university students. The overall prize is a trip to Washington, D.C. to visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and to attend the Days of Remembrance Commemoration in the Rotunda of the Capitol Building. First place winners receive a $250 United States Savings Bond.
SPEAKERS’ BUREAU The Speakers’ Bureau sends Holocaust Survivors, liberators, and others to schools, churches, schools, organizations, city hall meetings, and commemorations throughout the year.
DOCUMENTATION DEPARTMENT
INTERVIEWS
While the scope of the Center’s activities has grown tremendously over the years, the collection and preservation of more than 2,500 interviews from among South Florida witnesses to the Holocaust and making them available and accessible for scholarly and educational purposes still remains at the heart of the Center’s mission. The unique qualities of the Center’s oral history collection of eyewitness testimonies are that the material is being cataloged and indexed into a database which can be searched by name, location, date, and other variables. The highly structured interviews are conducted with the utmost sensitivity. When completed, they are transcribed verbatim and bound on acid-free paper. The transcription and audit/editing process is supported by the work of volunteers. It is important to note that the Center is the only known institution that is transcribing verbatim each acquired interview.
COLLEGE-ACCREDITED INTERVIEWERS CLASS
Interviews are conducted by a core of volunteers who have completed a 54-hour, college-accredited training course. The interviews are recorded in professional recording facilities at our Center.
TESTIMONIES
We are still taking testimonies of Holocaust Survivors, liberators, and eyewitnesses.
MEMORABILIA, DOCUMENTS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS
We are actively searching for Holocaust memorabilia, documents, and photographs for use in our museum.
REFERENCE AND RESEARCH LIBRARY
The library will provide access to reference and research materials on the Holocaust to teachers, students, researchers, and historians. In addition to more than 5,000 books, the library subscribes to more than a dozen periodicals. The library also has more than 100 DVDs on the Holocaust. We anticipate that the library will open in September, 2008!
BOOK CLUBS
The library will start two monthly books clubs when the reference and research library opens. One book club will be an Adult Book Club on the Holocaust, and the other will be a Teen and Young Adult Book Club on the Holocaust.
MEET THE AUTHOR SERIES
The library features Meet the Author Series and book signings. The meet the Author Series presents a different author of a Holocaust-related book every month at the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center.
Please see our web site at http://www.hdec.org for more information on all our programs.
Thank you!
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| Microcosm8 | Triumph of Evil is the Silence of the Bystander | 0 | Mar 29 2013, 12:11 AM EDT by Microcosm8 | ||
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Imagine being arbitrarily arrest over 30 times. Imagine being a mother having to flee from city to city with two minor children because nationwide law enforcement have slandered and targeted you as a "dangerous" felon and sex offender to be used as a human battering instrument for their menacing punks. Imagine having to live under Nuremberg Laws indefinitely. Imagine having to live in a rat infested ghetto indefinitely.
Imagine using every last brain cell while being threatened with violence and assaulted in order to file complaints in State and Federal Courts.Imagine U.S. officials awarding men millions of dollars for complaints similar to the ones you have filed with state and federal courts while you have worked your fingers to the bone never to be acknowledged, forced into isolation, discriminated against, and indoctrinated from every good thing you have ever known. We have lost our decency and it is utterly sad that when we compare American cops to Nazi cops, Nazi cops were more decent when it came to mothers and children because even when the Jews got off the cattle cars, the Nazi officers did not want to startle the people. And, while they deceived the mothers so that they could keep their babies, they were considerate and kind and allowed them to be together to march them into the extermination ovens. More than the triumph of evil is the silence of the bystander who propagates our horrors of today by ignoring and pretending not to know anything about the torture and abuses in this country.
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| Microcosm8 | How Can We Compare The Holocaust Survivor Experiences With Ours Today? | 1 | Jan 11 2013, 5:20 PM EST by Microcosm8 | ||
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It would benefit people to follow along with me as we examine the surreal lives of the Holocaust survivors because our country has a broken judicial system. These survivors will teach us what to recognize in our upheaval of our American justice system, how to become aware of the same pattern of continuity, how to avoid the terrorism of law enforcement, how to reciprocate to human atrocities, and how to avoid having our human rights trampled on (because it is beyond civil right violations). The Holocaust was a warning. Our first discussion can begin after listening to the testimony of Holocaust Survivor Regina Zielinski Testimony at http://youtu.be/KRRHaDF_2UA.
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