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The Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center, America's first Holocaust museum, was founded in 1961 by survivor Yaakov Riz, who lost 83 members of his family during the Holocaust. Riz vowed that if he survived he would dedicate his life to establishing a museum that would memorialize the millions of Jews and Non-Jews who perished at the hands of N**i barbarism. Initially, the museum was housed in the basement of Riz's home. The museum's genesis, its growth and its struggle against intolerance are the realization of his dream, his courage and his commitment.
In the five-county area that we serve, the museum's educational and community outreach is ecumenical and comprises a population that ranges from elementary school (grade 5) to senior citizens. Many of the students we work with come from disadvantaged homes. Some of our students are newcomers who have fled countries such as Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Serbia.
During the last 50+ years, tens of thousands of students have visited the museum. We, in turn, have presented thousands of Holocaust programs in schools and to community groups and organizations. Our efforts are designed to emphasize the message that racial, ethnic, and religious hatred are the social poisons that weaken the American democracy.
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Today on the , I’m partnering with Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center to share the important story of “An Afro-Caribbean in the N**i Era.”
This , we should challenge ourselves to listen to others’ stories who we haven’t heard before. See below for details:
This Sunday, I'm proud to partner with Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center on "The Story of an Afro-Caribbean in the N**i Era"
Looking forward to this important conversation
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Mother No. 1, mother No. 2.
It is said that mother there is only one, not exactly, I had two, one dead, one alive.
The first one, the dead, was my mother for five months and then came the bad people in their green uniforms and bright helmets and took her and killed her. She went to heaven in smoke. They took her from me, they left me so little without mother. That very day I had to give up her breast and cried and cried.
A simple woman, no career, no richness, she had only her family, father, my sister and her little prince, me.
Why did they take her? And left me in the hands of strangers, with an uncertain future. A mother I didn’t know, a mother I was not acquainted with, only grey pictures were left from her. Without a mother, without a grave to cry upon, only her name engraved on a monument. Why did they take her from me? Why did they kill her? Why did they leave me without a mother? They left me with a crippled life, a scarred life, half an orphan, why?
Mother No. 2 was in her forties, with no children of her own and she took me to her, a stranger, a woman from another religion who usually don’t like us and she endangered herself and her husband to hide me from the bad people, to protect me from the gossipers, the informers, in bombing times, persecution and deportation. She hid me, she dressed me up, she fed me, she loved me, she was my mother for three years until the end of the war and loved me all her life.
Not only in heaven there are angels!
The Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center will release a video memorial and commemoration, tomorrow, for the 80th Anniversary of the Babi Yar Massacre.
Click below to join in reflection and tune in to the educational commemoration, which will feature voices from the community gathered in remembrance of those horrific days in 1941.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8ipyJcFABXGqlbnWErLRfA
It was great to be one of the first visitors to the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center’s new location in Elkins Park.
Everyone should take time to visit HAMEC, whose work bears witness to our history — so that no one will forget the horrors and inhumanity of the Holocaust.
We can create a better future only by learning from our past.
Philadelphia-area youth are learning about the horrors of hate through the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center in Elkins Park.
"Tell them what happened, and why hatred should not exist."
A joy and honor for Martin & Anne to support the important work of the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. Please check out this wonderful museum's Silent Auction. 100% of the proceeds will go toward education. Creston Books Lerner Publishing Group Kar-Ben Publishing
🕯️ Next week World ORT will mark Holocaust Memorial Day in a joint initiative with the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center of Philadelphia and the WE ARE HERE! Foundation
https://wah.foundation/.
ORT students have already taken part in sessions hearing the testimony of Holocaust survivors and learning the consequences of racism, ethnic cleansing and intolerance.
Join us on Wednesday, January 27th (09.00 EST, 14.00 GMT, 22.00 Perth, Australia) for a service to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day and to hear more about the impact the survivors' testimonies have had on our students' understanding of the past.
Join us on Zoom via this link:
https://zoom.us/j/97948035452
Brzeszcze 19.01.2021 - remembrance The 76th Anniversary of Death March of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau
Foundation of memory sites near Auschwitz-Birkenau
Today is the day!
Join Gratz College, the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center (HAMEC) and the Tuzman family for an online presentation by Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Phd. , Chair of the Gratz College Board of Governors, in commemoration of Kristallnacht, the night in November 1938 when N**i leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories.
Tune in for a special announcement from Marty Tuzman about the featured speaker for the March 2021 biennial Arnold and Esther Tuzman Memorial Holocaust Teach-In.
Check our website for the link to the program here:
https://bit.ly/32Empu6
This program is free and no registration is required.
Join Gratz College, the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center (HAMEC) and the Tuzman family for an online presentation by Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Phd. , Chair of the Gratz College Board of Governors, in commemoration of Kristallnacht, the night in November 1938 when N**i leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories.
Tune in for a special announcement from Marty Tuzman about the featured speaker for the March 2021 biennial Arnold and Esther Tuzman Memorial Holocaust Teach-In.
Check our website for the link to the program here:
https://bit.ly/32Empu6
This program is free and no registration is required.
