The Dayton Holocaust Resource Center is responsible for storing, maintaining, purchasing, and disseminating Holocaust educational materials for teachers and researchers in the greater Dayton area.

Dayton Holocaust Blog

Lydia May Memorial Holocaust Writing Contest

Here are the winners of the Lydia May Memorial Holocaust Writing Contest: Division I 1st place – Leah Stewart 2nd place – Eliot Marotta Division II 1st place– Maria Auricchio 2nd place – Mikaela Hadaway … 3rd place – Leah Byrd Honorable Mention – Alexas Turner Honorable Mention – Caitlin Colbert

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Max May Memorial Holocaust Art Contest

Please go to our Facebook page to see photos of all the entries. Winners of the 2013 Max May Memorial Holocaust Art Contest – for privacy reasons their schools and grades are not listed.Division I: 1st Place – Aly Landis 2nd Place – Jordan Vandersluis 3rd Place – Nicholas Moorman Honorable Mention – Edin German, [...]

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here’s an announcement about a summer trip for teachers: HOLOCAUST EDUCATION TEACHER SUMMER TRAVEL Journey to Poland and the sites of the Holocaust Educators’ Summer Seminar – 2013  In cooperation with Miami-Dade County Public Schools and Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education / March of the Living The Department of Social Sciences is offering [...]

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Yad vaShem in Jerusalem hosts seminars and workshops each summer for English-speaking educators; this July, the theme is “the ghettoes.”  You can see further information and the application here.

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DHRC on Youtube

We have added a Youtube channel – you can find it by searching “Dayton Holocaust” on Youtube.  All the “Faces of the Holocaust” video interviews will be added… slowly; the upload takes a long time.

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announcement from Clark University

Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce a call for applicants to the doctoral program at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University.  Together with the History Department, the Strassler Center offers a unique doctoral program in Holocaust History and Genocide Studies.   We also offer an interdisciplinary Ph.D. stream in the Psychology [...]

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Kristallnacht event at the University of Dayton

REMEMBERING KRISTALLNACHT The University of Dayton will hold a candlelight vigil at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, in the Immaculate Conception Chapel to remember Kristallnacht — “The Night of Broken Glass” — which many historians view as the beginning of the Holocaust. The ceremony is open to the public. A genocide prevention teach-in is scheduled [...]

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new TV series on the Holocaust

The Flame Society is proud to announce that its new Holocaust documentary series, Re-Living The Holocaust: Through Their Eyes, will premiere on Jewish Life Television (JLTV) on Tuesday, November 13 at 10PM (ET/PT). This is a first episode of what will be the first weekly documentary series on The Holocaust. JLTV is the only full-time [...]

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Wright State University’s Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration—free and open to the public. Wednesday November 14, 7:30 pm, Millett Hall Atrium This year’s program features Robert Kahn, discussing “The Collapse of Moral Judgement in Nazi Germany.” As a boy in pre-war Germany, Robert Kahn and his family were terrorized by Nazi storm troopers on Kristallnacht. He therefore [...]

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teachers’ conference in New Jersey

We are excited to let you know about a special program that we have collaboratively planned; and that is jointly sponsored by the College of Saint Elizabeth Holocaust Education Resource Center and the Education Department of the American Society for Yad Vashem.  “After the Holocaust:  The Courage to Rebuild” is the theme for our Professional [...]

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