HOLOCAUST DOCUMENTATION & EDUCATION CENTER INC
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Mission Statement
The Holocaust Documentation and Education Center seeks to combat prejudice in our multicultural, ethnically diversified community by educating the students and alerting them to the dangers of prejudice. Because our mission is to provide educational resources and information regarding the authentic memory of the Holocaust, our Student Awareness Days are a vehicle toward this end. The Student Awareness Days are prejudice reduction symposia whereby 250-750 high school students at each program learn the dangers of bullying, racism, hatred, and bigotry through videos, lectures, and round table discussions with Survivors of the Holocaust.
About This Cause
The Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, founded in 1980 as a nonsectarian, non-profit, multifaceted organization, is currently embarking on building the first South Florida Holocaust Museum. This museum will put names and faces to the victims and will raise the sounds of their moral voices of conscience to mute the noise of prejudice and hatred. The museum, which will be the first in the country to teach the story in English and Spanish, will teach the universal lessons of the Holocaust, which are a significant moral tool in teaching values, pluralism, responsibility, and respect for human dignity, decency, and life to this and future generations. In preparation for school class tours, the Museum will provide information for teachers to help prepare their students. The Center has achieved international acclaim and recognition for maintaining the largest, self-produced, standardized oral history collection nationally and internationally. Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Raoul Wallenberg Project, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center have all sought the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center’s expertise in developing their oral history projects. The Center continues to seek eyewitnesses, Survivors, liberators, and rescuers, to videotape their stories to become part of the museum. The Center is also collecting artifacts from the Holocaust including documents and photographs. The Holocaust Documentation and Education Center has been lauded by many of the school boards for its outstanding educational outreach programs. The highlight of these are our Student Awareness Days, which began in 1986 and to date have touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of middle, high school, and college and university students and tens of thousands of teachers. The most profound and proudest achievement of the Center, which continues to impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of our students from kindergarten through 20 came in 1994 when Florida State Statute 1003.42 was signed into law. As a result, today Holocaust education is mandated so that all our students regardless of race, color and creed will have the opportunity to learn that promises of Never Again are empty and meaningless if we remain silent and indifferent in the face of any hatred and bigotry. The Center maintains a Speakers’ Bureau, which reaches over 18,000 per year. In addition, the Center also sponsors an Annual Visual Arts and Writing Contest for students in grades 4 – 12 and colleges and universities as well as a university accredited, weeklong Summer Institute on the Holocaust for teachers of all grade levels For further information about any of our programs or if you wish to consider a Naming Opportunity in the Museum.– the first in South Florida, please contact Rositta E. Kenigsberg, President, Holocaust Documentation and Education Center at 954-929-5690 ext. 202 and please e-mail us at info@hdec.org. The Center, founded in 1980 as a nonsectarian, non-profit, multifaceted organization, is currently housed in Hollywood, Florida at 2031 Harrison Street and will feature the first South Florida Holocaust Museum. For over 30 years, the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center has continued to: • Document and preserve the testimonies of Survivors, Liberators, and other eyewitnesses of the Holocaust and, to date, has the largest, self-produced, standardized Oral History Library Collection. • Be lauded for our outstanding effort that resulted in the Florida State Statute 1003.42, signed by Governor Lawton Chiles into law in 1994, which mandates that every student from grades K – 20 be taught Holocaust education and that all Florida teachers are to be provided with the necessary training and resources. • Provide outstanding educational outreach programs which include; our renowned Student Awareness Days for private, public, and parochial high school students in the tri-county area which reach approximately 4,500 a year, a week-long, university accredited Teacher Institute for teachers in all grade levels, a local and national Annual Visual Arts and Writing Contest for grades 4 - 12, a Simple Act of Kindness Contest for grades K - 12, and our Speakers Bureau which last year addressed 15,000 students and others. • Serve as a resource and reference for government, education and human rights institutions, and organizations throughout the world seeking to document the Holocaust. • Increase education and awareness with the opening of our Reference & Research Library in November 2010. The library currently houses approximately 5,000 volumes of Holocaust-related books, journals, DVDs and other materials. In addition, the library hosts a Meet the Author series every month from October to April. • Provide public programming with the introduction of our International Series in January 2011. The International Series features consuls and other representatives from various countries speaking about their country’s history during WWII. Our next goal is to build a permanent Legacy of Remembrance in Hollywood, Florida. We anticipate tens of thousands of Florida students and teachers as well Florida residents and tourists from around the world to visit the museum annually. The story, which will be told in English and in Spanish, will be appropriate for ages 11 and older, with parental discretion advised. The Holocaust touches each and every one of us because of its lessons, truths, and legacy. There is no place in human society for inhumane acts and beliefs. Every generation needs to learn that lesson. We owe it to ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren. Visitors to the museum will leave changed with a stronger, personal commitment to end the ignorance and to stop the prejudice and hatred. The museum will teach the universal lessons of the Holocaust. These lessons are a significant moral tool in teaching values, pluralism, responsibility, and respect for human dignity, decency, and life to this and future generations. In preparation for school class tours, the museum will provide information for teachers to help prepare their students. The Center has acquired a rail car of the type used by the Nazis during the Holocaust to transport millions of Jews to their untimely death. This rail car has been 85% restored and is now available for public viewing by appointment. The Center has achieved international acclaim and recognition its Oral History Library Collection nationally and internationally. Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Raoul Wallenberg Project, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center have all sought the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center’s expertise in developing their oral history projects. The Center continues to seek eyewitnesses, Survivors, Liberators, and Rescuers to videotape their stories which will become part of the museum. The Center is also collecting artifacts from the Holocaust including documents and photographs. To date, the Center has over 8,000 pieces of memorabilia. The documents are being translated and, along with the photographs, will be made into a virtual library which will be accessible worldwide. The Center’s mission is to preserve, protect, and perpetuate the authentic memory of the Holocaust through documentation, commemoration, and education so that the Legacy of the Holocaust will become an “Imperative to Remember” and so that all children will live in a world filled with the promise of hope and peace. The Center’s mission is to preserve, protect, and perpetuate the authentic memory of the Holocaust by creating a permanent and irrefutable record of the testimonies of Survivors, Liberators, and Rescuers. These eyewitness accounts continue to forge, enrich, and enhance the process of Holocaust education, creating A LIVING MEMORIAL THROUGH EDUCATION as we endow the first South Florida Holocaust Museum. Since 1980, the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center’s mission is to endow A LIVING MEMORIAL THROUGH EDUCATION by preserving, protecting, and perpetuating the authentic memory of the Holocaust, thereby endowing a Legacy of Remembrance for this and future generations. Today, the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center is embarking on the fulfillment of this mission by creating of the first South Florida Holocaust Museum, which is to become the first in North America to tell the story of the Holocaust in English and Spanish.