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ABOUT US
Click
on any of the following links to find out more about the Holocaust
Resource Center:
EDUCATION
RESEARCH REMEMBRANCE
The Holocaust's horrors have forever scarred the world's physical
and psychological landscape. Yet the modern imagination's ability
to fully digest and process the vast complexities of these systematic
atrocities has been compromised by the passage of time. Our children
are increasingly desensitized by the glamorization of violence in
popular entertainment, and are living in growing isolation promoted
by the distancing effects of technology. Modern generations, whatever
their background, struggle or refuse to grasp the hatred, greed,
fear and indifference that resulted in this unparalleled tragedy.
Six million Jews were methodically identified, detained, and murdered
during the Holocaust. One and a half million of these were children,
and more than twenty-three million people died in total. However,
the staggering nature of these numbers is what also makes them hard
to process. They are pure statistics that do not tell the full story.
They do not explain or educate. We must continue to investigate
the causes and results of personal and organized hatred, and celebrate
those who reject and fight against it.
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THE
CENTER
Education, research, and remembrance are central to the mission
of the Holocaust Resource Center and Archives at Queensborough Community
College. The Center acts as an ongoing witness to history. Through
extensive research and documentation, and by chronicling the testimonies
of survivors, the Center embraces the lessons learned from the Holocaust
to each tolerance, to understand prejudice, and to embrace the lives
and legacies of the survivors. It is through the details of their
personal remembrances that we can educate future generations to
recognize and reject the face of hatred so that what happened once
will never happen again at any level.
The HRCA places
the role of education as its centerpiece. It houses an extensive
and expanding collection of books, documents (including nearly 400
doctoral dissertations on microfilm), and audio-visual materials
for use by students, teachers, scholars and any other interested
persons.
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USING
HISTORY TO SHAPE TOMORROW
In
its unique role of remembrance through education, the Center is
an invaluable resource for teachers and schools not only in the
Borough of Queens but also for educational institutions throughout
the city, Long Island, and as distant as La Porte, Texas and Vancouver,
British Columbia.
It
is the only Holocaust Center in the United States that publishes
educational guides for middle schools and high schools, and presently
assists schools throughout the state to comply with a New York State
law mandating the inclusion of the Holocaust in the Social Studies/Global
Studies curriculum. The Center also provides “Teachers’
Trunks” to schools, consisting of books and materials for
an entire class.
Close
to 50 schools, representing Catholic, Hebrew, public and independent
elementary, middle and high schools, have employed educational materials
from the Center during the last academic year. And additional 34
museums and educational organizations incorporated the Center’s
resources and traveling exhibits into their work.
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EXHIBITS
To date, over twenty exhibits, powerful and thought-provoking presentations
of photographs, art, documentation and personal and historic narratives,
have been hosted at the Center. These exhibits are curated by the
Center’s Director, Dr. William Shulman, and staffed by volunteers,
many of whom are Holocaust survivors. Several exhibits have become
traveling exhibitions sent to other institutions and museums throughout
the country. Currently, eight exhibits are on loan to museums and
educational institutions throughout the United States.
Visits
by teachers and groups of students of all ages are encouraged, and
are arranged to meet the age and interest levels of each group.
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LECTURES
Open
to the public and free of charge, lectures investigating issues
and events of the Holocaust are hosted each semester. Recent lectures
explored topics including:
- The Legal Implications of the Holocaust
- Hate on the Internet
- Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened, and Why
Do They Say It?
- The Perversion of Germany’s Court System
- Could the Allies Have Bombed Auschwitz?
- Bringing Perpetrators to Justice at Nuremberg
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SPEAKER'S
BUREAU
The
Holocaust Center has a program in which a survivor can come to your
school or organization and speak about what happened to them during
the Holocaust. We offer this program free of charge to any school
or organization in the local Queens area. To find out more information
about this program or to schedule a survivor for your school or
organization, contact the Center directly at: (718) 281-5770.
Group
Visits
The Holocaust Center offers group visits to our exhibits. Monday
thru Thursday from 10:00am to 12:00 the center offers group visits
to the Holocaust Center at no charge. This is available to schools
grades 5th and up and organizations. The visit includes a docent
tour of the exhibit and a movie in conjunction with the exhibit.
You must make a reservation at least two weeks in advance for group
visits.
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