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The Holocaust Remembrance Project is a national essay contest for high school students that is designed to encourage and promote the study of the Holocaust. Participation in this project encourages students to think responsibly, be aware of world conditions that undermine human dignity, and make decisions that promote the respect and value inherent in every person.
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Founded by veteran Holocaust interviewer Chicagoan Phyllis Dreazen, Holocaust Educational Intergenerational Research Studies (HEIRS) will study a wide spectrum of grandchildren of the survivors of the Holocaust, reached through Hillels, schools, the Internet and other established organizations around the word. Dreazen plans to conduct 1, 000 in-depth interviews. The information gained will be the basis for a book, and the data collected will be made available to health professionals. An intergenerational conference is ... planned to coincide with the completion of the first phase of the project.
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These figures on democide are new to students of the Holocaust and genocide. They are based on almost 8,200 estimates of genocide, politicide, massacres, terrorism, extrajudicial executions, and other relevant types of killing. These estimates were recorded from over a thousand sources, which include general works, specialized studies, human rights reports, journal articles, and news sources.14
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Available since Spring 2007, the Holocaust Educational Trust, in partnership with the University of Southern California's Shoah Foundation Institute, is proud to present this innovative new resource. Featuring visual testimony from 18 Survivors, liberators, aid-givers and rescuers, the DVD-Rom is suitable for use in the classroom with students at KS3 and above.
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These photographs and stories will ... become part of a permanent exhibit to be housed in the Center for Holocaust Studies, and used as a traveling exhibit for schools. These survivors and their stories will thus remain the foundation for the study of the Holocaust. Each story will be the basis of a lesson plan that will have the survivor at its core, using his or her particular experience as the focus of study.
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Jennifer Ritter, HBA, LLB is the Director of the Holocaust Centre of Toronto. She is an attorney and her practice included human rights law. She worked for many years as an Educator for the Jewish Agency in Israel, working with high school and university age students. She holds certificates from the Yad Vashem International School and Massuah Institute for Holocaust Studies. Prior to joining the Centre, Jennifer was the Director of the Holocaust Memorial Centre of Florida from 2001-2006. She is a frequent lecturer at universities and schools and has presented at conferences and seminars in North America and Israel.
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