Community Partnerships

The HRC is a member of the Association of Holocaust Organizations (AHO), which was established in 1985 to serve as an international network of organizations and individuals for the advancement of Holocaust education, remembrance and research.

For more information, please visit: https://www.ahoinfo.org/about

The HRC is a proud Community of Holocaust Education Centers (CHEC) member with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This community advances quality Holocaust education locally by providing:

• Guidelines, lesson plans, and other classroom activities aligned with state requirements
• Local Holocaust survivor testimony
• Projects and resources that connect Holocaust history to local history
• Public programs and book discussions
• Holocaust remembrance programs 
• Teacher professional development support at the state and local level

For more information about CHEC, please visit: https://www.ushmm.org/teach/opportunities-for-educators/community-of-holocaust-education-centers

The HRC is a member of the Consortium of Higher Education Centers, which is dedicated to the study of Holocaust, genocide, and human rights are vital and irreplaceable resources for the colleges, universities, and communities they serve. They contribute to public education, teaching, research, policymaking, community engagement, and advocacy. The Consortium supports the growth of Holocaust, genocide, and human rights centers, endeavors to empower them, and stands for the following values:

• Recognition of fundamental equality of all people regardless of religion, ethnicity, class, nationality, gender, sex, social status, age, or (dis)ability
• Assurance of basic human rights for all people, especially among vulnerable, marginal, threatened, or at-risk communities
• Protection from harm and injustice, systemic and otherwise, especially when hateful ideologies are promoted and discriminatory acts carried out by social agents or political systems.
• Acknowledgment and commemoration of past and present traumas suffered in genocides, atrocities, and human rights abuses
• Commitment to the integrity of free and open scholarly inquiry in higher education and in public discourse

For more information, please visit: https://consortiumhgh.org/

The HRC team is honored to be a Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Holocaust Center of Excellence. Membership in this privileged cohort provides our educators with access and scholarships to participate in the JFR's world class seminars and institutes. For more information about the JFR, please visit: www.jfr.org