Executive Vice President:  Rositta E. Kenigsberg

Phone:  305-919-5690

Email:  rositta@hdec.org

 

Mission

 

The Center’s primary 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 initiate, shape, and ensure the process of Holocaust education in an effort to create and provide A Living Memorial Through Education.

 

Objectives/Services

 

The Center’s oral history collection now contains over 2,000 interviews and is renowned as the largest, self-produced, standardized archive of Holocaust testimonies in the nation.  Our educational programs consist of prejudice reduction symposia entitled Student Awareness Days for high school, college, and university students who have the unique opportunity to interact with Holocaust survivors and learn the universal lessons of the Holocaust.  In addition, we hold an annual visual arts and writing contest, a teachers’ institute on Holocaust education, and have a speakers’ bureau.

 

In an effort to ensure longevity, enrichment, and enhancement of the Center’s holdings and programs, the Center has embarked on a major mission to open a museum in Hollywood, Florida where Holocaust artifacts, photographs, and other memorabilia will be exhibited. This museum will have permanent and traveling exhibitions and will also have classrooms for educational purposes.  It will also include a reference-based library for research.

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