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Use the following
links to learn more about the Holocaust:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Holocaustthe 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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