The Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education (CHHRE)

Programs and Services..

Professional Development for Teachers: during the academic year, the Center offers six one-day workshops, to deepen teachers' knowledge of specific Holocaust, genocide and human rights topics. These workshops focus on content and methodology. The workshops are offered at FAU's Boca Raton , and Jupiter Campuses. Professional development credit is available for completion of these learning opportunities. For specific information and applications, please click on the workshops and events link.

Introduction to Holocaust Studies for Educators, five-day Summer Institute: annual five-day intensive introduction to the history of the Holocaust and Holocaust pedagogy. Co-sponsored by the Florida Department of Education, FAU Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust and Judaic Studies, the School District of Palm Beach County and LEAH (League for Educational Awareness of the Holocaust). Program Descriptions and applications are posted on our workshops and events link every January.

Holocaust Survivors Speakers' Bureau: the Center schedules Holocaust survivors to speak to school classes throughout the year. To schedule a speaker, telephone: 561-297-2929 or email us. Survivors generally speak to one group each day and prefer to speak to combined classes once rather than to several separate classes in one day.

Resource Center and Lending Library: The Center provides an extensive collection of resources that are recommended and/or used in the State of Florida Holocaust Curriculum .

These resources include:

To search or browse and to order from the Resource Center/Lending Library holdings on-line, go to the Lending Library link.

To order materials: call 561-297-6229 or email to blilach@fau.edu

Auschwitz Survivor, Saul Birnbaum, Dreyfoos High School for the Arts, Exhibit "Holocaust Education through the Arts", West Palm Beach, Fl.		Holocaust survivor Ernest Kahn and his wife Ana, Dreyfoos High School for the Arts, Exhibit "Holocaust Education through the Arts", West Palm Beach, Fl.

Consultations: the Center also supports teachers and other community organization to plan and implement programs focusing on Holocaust, genocide and human rights themes or using these themes to strengthen education for tolerance.