Holocaust Resource Center
Dr. Adara Goldberg, Director
Holocaust Resource Center
Location: L206
Telephone (908) 737-4660
Email: agoldber@kean.edu
Website: https://www.kean.edu/offices/holocaust-resource-center
A leading provider of Holocaust education and diversity training in New Jersey, the Holocaust Resource Center (HRC) is a joint initiative of the University and the Holocaust Resource Foundation, a private philanthropic organization. Since 1982, the Center has created an extensive collection of academic, audio-visual, and instructional materials to strengthen and commemorate education about the Holocaust, other genocides, and issues of diversity and prejudice. This includes more than 220 oral history interviews with New Jersey Holocaust survivors, rescuers, and liberators, a library collection of more than 6500 books, and hundreds of classroom unit plans. The Holocaust Resource Center partners with New Jersey school districts, community organizations, museums, and scholars to offer programming and disseminate information. The Center sponsors the Murray Pantirer Memorial Scholar Lecture Series that attracts distinguished speakers with national and international reputations; delivers Kristallnacht commemorative programming at Kean Union and Ocean campuses; and co-presents the community Yom Hashoah event in partnership with Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest. It also delivers an annual educators workshop series that brings innovative and exciting programs to the university.
Teacher training and classroom instruction are at the heart of the HRC's mission. The Center manages a dual-credit course on Holocaust and Genocide studies, whereby high school seniors can earn college credits at a greatly reduced rate, and offers tuition-free graduate courses as part of the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate on Teaching the Holocaust and Teaching Prejudice Reduction, which prepares educators to incorporate Holocaust lessons in their curricula. Located on the second floor of the Nancy Thompson Library, the HRC is home to Kean’s Diversity Council on Global Education and Citizenship, a consortium of more than seventy NJ member school districts and the Kean University College of Education, dedicated to the active pursuit of human dignity and understanding diversity, prejudice reduction, and social justice education. In recognition of its contributions to Holocaust education, the HRC has been named one of 14 national Center of Excellence by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.
For further information, please call Dr. Adara Goldberg at 908-737-4633.