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Holocaust Resource Center

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Remembering the Past, Honoring the Present, Shaping the Future

The Holocaust Resource Center (HRC) is a joint initiative between Kean University and the Holocaust Resource Foundation, a private philanthropic organization founded by Holocaust survivors who rebuilt their lives in New Jersey.

History and Mission

The HRC was established in 1982 to foster and reinforce ongoing awareness of the Holocaust among students, teachers and community members. From its inception, the Foundation's founders recognized education as the integral driving force behind the organization.

Today, the Center continues to honor its founders by promoting messages of respect, understanding and empowerment. We fulfill our educational mandate in three ways: collections, commemorative events and teacher training. 

The Holocaust Resource Center partners with the Human Rights Institute (HRI) at Kean University. To view the work of the HRI, click here.

Holocaust Center of Excellence

Holocaust Center of Excellence

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

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Community of Holocaust Education Centers

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

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Consortium of Higher Education Centers for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies

Higher education centers 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/