For more information:

• Master Teacher Institute in Holocaust Education at Rutgers University
  New semester-based program:  The Master Teacher Institute (MTI) in Holocaust Education is an advanced training program to develop expert teachers in Holocaust studies who will serve as resource providers in their schools, districts, and communities. The MTI will engage teachers in a wide-ranging study of the history of the Holocaust and its remembrance and will address the complex methodological issues involved in teaching about this subject.

• The following two DVD documentaries are excellent teaching tools to assist in instructing students about the Holocaust and genocide.  They were developed by a son about his mother and a grandson about his grandparents.

  • Only a Number
  • We Are Still Here
    
    
• 9-11 Tribute Songs
• Aladdin Project
  (Countering the falsification of history)
• Bergen Arts & Science Charter School
  Dr. Paul B. Winkler toured the Arts & Science Charter School located in Garfield, NJ and presented programs about bias, prejudice and Holocaust/genocide education to the students in grades K-6.  He was very impressed by the commitment and interest of the students, staff, parents and administration to the importance of respect and appreciation of differences.
• Centropa
  (An interactive database of Jewish memory)
• Council of Holocaust Educators of New Jersey (CHE)
• Cumberland County Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center
• Darfur Rehabilitation Project
• German Propaganda Archive
  (Primary propaganda resources)
• Help Darfur Now.org
• Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation Holocaust Remembrance Project Scholarship
• Holocaust Memorials
  (Memorial museums database)
• International March of the Living
• Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
• Kidsbridge Mini-Museum
• Mark it With a Stone
• Museum of Jewish Heritage
• Music is Our Witness: Lessons on the Holocaust and Genocide with a Music Connection
• National Museum of American Jewish History
• New Jersey Alliance for Learning and Preserving the History of World War II in Asia
• New Jersey Coalition responds to the Darfur Crisis
• Next Generations
• Shoah Foundation
• Silent Voices Speak
• The American Jewish Committee Metro NJ Chapter
• The Grand Deception
• The Hidden Child
• The Never Again Project
• Triangles of Truth
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945
• USC Shoah Fondation
• Yad Vashem
  (Historian perspectives and Righteous)
• Yale Avalon Project
  (Use of primary written resources)
• YIVO
  (Historical context)

The core mission of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education is to promote Holocaust education in the State of New Jersey. On a continual basis, the Commission shall survey the status of Holocaust/Genocide Education; design, encourage nd promote the implementation of Holocaust and genocide education and awareness; provide programs in New Jersey; and coordinate designated events that will provide appropriate memorialization of the Holocaust on a regular basis throughout the state. The Commission will provide assistance and advice to the public and private schools and will meet with county and local school officials, and other interested public and private organizations, to assist with the study of the Holocaust and genocide.

We invite you to find out more, whether you require Group or Company specific information, simply explore the site using the links to the left.

Phil Kirschner, Esq.
Chairman
Dr. Paul B. Winkler
Executive Director

State of New Jersey
Commission on Holocaust Education
P.O. Box 500
Trenton, NJ 08625

(609)292-9274 phone
(609)633-8599 fax
holocaust@doe.state.nj.us

The New Jersey Holocaust Commission is an autonomous body operating under its own policies and positions. It acts as a resource to the Department of Education to assist schools with various aspects of meeting the requirements of the mandate to provide Holocaust and genocide education. The commission provides curriculum outlines and suggested activities; identifies and publicizes demonstration sites for other districts to contact; and recommends informational resources and materials for teachers and students to use in the state.

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