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Throughout the year, The Holocaust Center hosts, sponsors and or participates in a number of school, community and nationwide activities including.
- Visiting local schools to discuss the legacy and lessons of the Holocaust and genocides with students and educators
- Arranging visits to the Center
- Organizing human rights and anti-
hate conferences - Sponsoring an Annual Yom HaShoah Rememberance, Interfaith Commemoration of the Holocaust.
- Recording Oral Histories: The Holocaust Center Boston, North Inc. is an affiliate of the Fortunoff Video Archives for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University. To date, hundreds of oral histories have been recorded and will be used for educational purposes.
- Arranging a Survivors’ Conference: Each fall the center offers a forum for survivors and the next generations in cooperation with Facing History. Participants are encouraged to share their experiences with the public and in the classroom.
Eighteenth Annual Human Rights Awareness Program
for students grades 9-
Monday, November 24, 2008, from 8:30 A.M.-
Peabody Veterans Memorial High School
485 Lowell St., Peabody, MA
The program this year will feature presentations from three victims of persecution:
Sonia Weitz, the Holocaust,
Sayon Soeun, the Cambodian Genocide, and Claude Kaitare, the Rwandan Genocide.
Since prior programs have been over-