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Use the following links to learn more about the Holocaust:

Holocaust Center of Northern California
http://www.hcnc.org

As local partners, the Holocaust Center of Northern California is dedicated to the education, documentation, research, and remembrance of the Holocaust. The Holocaust Center has led the effort to increase awareness among the general public about the causes and consequences of racism, anti-Semitism, intolerance, and indifference during the Holocaust and today. By showing the link between the Holocaust and contemporary issues, the Center attempts to put an end to indifference, oppression, hate crimes and the recurrence of genocide.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org

Information about the Museum located in Washington D.C., recource listings, online exhibits, as well as a number of links to other sites.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America´s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country´s memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.

Yad Vashem
http://www.yadvashem.org.il/

Information about Yad Vashem, Israel´s Holocaust Memorial Museum located in Jerusalem. Extensive resources and links to other sites. Yad Vashem´s task is to perpetuate the legacy of the Holocaust to future generations so that the world never forgets the horrors and cruelty of the Holocaust. Its principal missions are commemoration and documentation of the events of the Holocaust, collection, examination, and publication of testimonies to the Holocaust, the collection and memorialization of the names of Holocaust victims, research and education.

American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters´ House
http://www.friendsofgfh.org/

The American Friends has two primary missions: to promote the historical legacy of the Jewish resistance and the humanitarian lessons of the Holocaust by supporting The Ghetto Fighters´ Museum and Yad Layeled, and to direct, in conjunction with the Museums´ educators, a range of educational projects in American schools. These projects include the innovative International Book-Sharing Project, which links American and Israeli schools in the study of the Holocaust, ongoing development of English-language teaching materials based on the extensive resources of The Ghetto Fighters´ Museum, and teacher training opportunities.

Labor and the Holocaust
www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/collections/exhibits/tam/JLC/opener.html

Information about organized resistance, the Jewish Labor Committee, the American anti-Nazi movement, and post war politcs.

Simon Wiesenthal Center
http://www.wiesenthal.com/index.cfm

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action. The Center confronts important contemporary issues including racism, antisemitism, terrorism and genocide and is accredited as an NGO both at the United Nations and UNESCO.

Museum of Tolerance Mulimedia Learning Center
www.wiesenthal.com/mot/index.cfm

The Museum of Tolerance is a high tech, hands-on experiential museum that focuses on two central themes through unique interactive exhibits: the dynamics of racism and prejudice in America and the history of the Holocaust—the ultimate example of man´s inhumanity to man. The Museum, the educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, was founded to challenge visitors to confront bigotry and racism, and to understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts.

 

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