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Contests teach students about kindness and combating hate
As seen in Sun Sentinel: Contests teach students about kindness and combating hate By: Sergio...
Florida Legislature provides funds for Holocaust Documentation & Education Center
The Holocaust Documentation & Education Center in Dania Beach is receiving assistance from the Florida Legislature in the amount of more than $600,000 in funds for the 2021-22 year.
Technology will preserve Holocaust history | Opinion
South Florida is home to one of the largest Holocaust survivor community in the nation, and we are so fortunate to live among them and learn from them.
Announcing the 2021 Annual Contest Winners!
The HDEC Announces the 2020 – 2021 Annual Contest Winners!
Student Awareness Days ‘an incredible learning experience for each and everyone of us’
In a typical school year, South Florida high school students attend Student Awareness Days where they gather with Holocaust survivors in roundtable discussions.
How Holocaust Survivors Started Over | Opinion
How Holocaust Survivors Started Over | Opinion
By: Alan Goch
Holocaust education binds diverse cultures | Opinion
As seen in Sun Sentinel: Holocaust education binds diverse cultures | Opinion By: Alan Goch "The...
Op-ed: QAnon, the Holocaust and the deadly power of conspiracy theories
Op-ed: Q-Anon, the Holocaust and the deadly power of conspiracy theories
By Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Holocaust Survivor Speaks to Jewish Student Union on Holocaust Remembrance Day
As seen in FSU News: Jan. 27 is known as International Holocaust Remembrance Day because on this...
Suite Talk with Julie Talenfeld: 2021 Happy New Year
As seen in Suite Talk by Julie Talenfeld: It is hard to believe we've been living with the...
‘Lease on life for us:’ New vaccine program for Holocaust Survivors
Palm Beach County Vice Mayor Robert Weinroth announced Thursday a special program to administer COVID-19 vaccines for Holocaust survivors in Palm Beach County.
HDEC Honored to be Part of Governor DeSantis’s Efforts to Vaccinate 750 Holocaust Survivors
HDEC Honored to be Part of Governor DeSantis’s Efforts to Vaccinate 750 Holocaust Survivors.
In a word, it’s antisemitism
As seen in Jewish Press of Tampa Bay: Letters to the Editor Dear Editor: Twenty years ago, when I...
Holocaust Survivor in Boynton Beach shares his story with Palm Beach County students
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (CBS 12) – Seventy-six years ago on January 27, 1945, thousands of Jewish people were liberated from the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
Miami Proud: Every Family Has A Story, Bubbie’s Is Heroic And Hilarious
MIAMI (CBS Miami) – For Russel Lazega, becoming a writer was practically forced on him. His grandmother, his ‘Bubbie’, wouldn’t take no for an answer.
Resolve to promote Holocaust Education in 2021 | Opinion
As seen in the Sun Sentinel The group that erected the Anne Frank memorial in Boise, Idaho, posted...
2020: What A Fruitful Year for the HDEC
The following 40th Anniversary year-end update, highlights our efforts over these past 12 months.
‘We lost everything’: Survivor recalls Kristallnacht | Opinion
Nonagenarian Gary Eichenwald has seen and heard it all during his lifetime. He’ll never forget Nov. 9-10, 1938.
Holocaust Survivor Julius Eisenstein Turns 101!
On October 13, the HDEC planned a “Drive-By” for our beloved Survivor Julius Eisenstein’s 101st Birthday!
Facebook will now ban Holocaust denial, in a major shift
(JTA) – Facebook announced that it will now ban any posts that deny or distort the Holocaust, a landmark change from its previous policy.
Holocaust Education More Important Than Ever Before
With the arrival of another Jewish new year, we are reminded that time continues to move further away from the Holocaust era that ended 75 years ago.
HDEC First Ever Online Raffle Event!
The Holocaust Documentation & Education Center is delighted to announce our very first "HDEC...
Pre-High Holiday Security Conference Presented Virtually
Concerned with several issues including the rise of anti-Semitism and Zoombombing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Federation of Broward County partnered together to host a pre-High Holiday security briefing and conference.
‘From Darkness to Light’ webinar features Holocaust Survivors
South Florida Holocaust Survivors shared what the State of Israel has meant to them since its creation in a webinar.
Our City Pembroke Pines – Students Honored in Annual Holocaust Reflection Contest – 08/03/2020
Local students were celebrated by The Holocaust Documentation & Education Center (HDEC) in this year’s Olga & Eugene Guttman Visual Arts and Writing Contest.
Holocaust Documentation & Education Center reopens for tours
After months of closure due to COVID-19, the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center in Dania Beach has officially reopened its facility for tours.
Holocaust Survivors are heroes to contest-winning students
Despite schools closing their campuses and switching to virtual learning in March because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center in Dania Beach was still able to award student winners of its annual “Olga & Eugene Guttman” and “A Simple Act of Kindness” visual arts and writing contests this year.
60 Minutes Presents: The Lost Music
More than 6 million people, most of them Jews, died in the Holocaust. The music they wrote as a temporary escape, however, did not, thanks in part to the efforts of an Italian composer and pianist.
Jewish museums must persevere | Opinion
As a student of history and a museum enthusiast, I have spent a fair amount of shuttered hours during the pandemic visiting museums and checking off my must-see list. Virtually, that is!
Sun Sentinel - Holocaust remembrance reaches beyond just one day - 4/24/2017