Our Gallery Display on the Persistence of Genocide around the world is open to the public. See the "About" menu on our home page for details on visiting the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education.

A Journey to Life Curriculum Suitcases allows middle and high school teachers to teach the Holocaust through the life story of a local Holocaust survivor.

It is not enough to educate the next generation about human rights. The Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education is committed to empowering them to take action in both their local and our global communities. The Annual Catherine Woolf Student Leadership Conference brings middle school students together to recognize bias and prejudice in themselves and their peers, and gives them the tools to create positive change.

I Was There is a Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education at Brookdale Community College production featuring the accounts of three local area veterans, Mr. Allan Ostar, Mr. Donald Reinhold, and Mr. Peter Verdicchio, who were eyewitnesses to the German concentration camps at the end of World War II in Europe. An excellent resource for high schools, colleges and the community, local audiences may arrange to meet the veterans at film screenings.

Ruth Knopp’s tale of courage and defiance is but one of dozens of survivor stories documented by the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education and available for study.

The Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education is committed to education and action on current human rights crises. Working with Scott Blanding and his powerful documentary film on the Democratic Republic of Congo, the center has held community programs, educator workshops and encouraged action to develop resources for the women struggling to come grips with the violence that devastated them physically and emotionally. (Photo credit: Scott Blanding.)

The Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education collects photographs, testimonies, artifacts, documents and other personal memorabilia from survivors of the Holocaust, genocides and other human rights violations to preserve the history for future generations.

Etty: A Conversation is an in-school program for high schools featuring a one-woman theatrical performance, curriculum guide and professional development for educators. Based on the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum, a young Jewish Dutch victim of the Holocaust, it serves as a focus of cross-curricular study.

The Center can arrange to have your school view the play, and provide interactive discussion and student activities. We also perform a professional workshop for teachers and provide them with a teacher's guide. (Photo credit: Ricardo Barros)

The Law Enforcement Training Program, a collaborative program between the Center, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, uses the Holocaust to educate law enforcement officers about their responsibilities to protect our rights in our pluralistic society. 

Detective David D'Amico from the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office is an integral staff member of the Center's Consequences of Hate and Bias in Our Community: A Program for Juveniles, the court-mandated education program for juvenile bias crime offenders. His powerful presentation on bias, prejudice and stereotypes was presented for the community, as well as in schools across the county.