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词条 Holocaust Center of Northern California
释义

  1. History

  2. HCNC Programs and Services

     Education  Research  Oral History Project 

  3. References

  4. External links

{{short description|Non-profit organization}}The Holocaust Center of Northern California (HCNC) is a non-profit organization formed to ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust never be forgotten. HCNC provides services and programs to fulfill its mission of education, research and remembrance.[1]

In 2010, the Holocaust Center of Northern California's collections and programs were relocated to Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, and Sonoma Counties to form the "JFCS Holocaust Center".[2]

History

The Holocaust Center of Northern California, formerly known as The Holocaust Library and Research Center of San Francisco, was established in 1977 in reaction to the opening of a Nazi bookstore in a neighborhood in San Francisco where a large population of Holocaust survivors lived. Enraged, several Holocaust survivors broke into the bookstore and set fire to its inventory. Two individuals – Mr. Morris Weiss and his son Allan Weiss – were arrested.[3]

The Jewish Community Relations Council intervened on behalf of the Weisses who were released. A Committee of Remembrance was formed, composed of Holocaust survivors and refugees, who decided to initiate three projects:

  • An annual day of remembrance for Holocaust victims:

The first Yom HaShoah commemoration was held in April 1978

  • Establishment of a research library:

The Holocaust Library and Research Center of San Francisco, opened in 1979.

  • A lasting memorial in San Francisco:

"Holocaust," dedicated in November 1984 in Lincoln Park, was created by the sculptor George Segal.

The Holocaust Center of Northern California is in collaboration with the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service.

The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project merged with the HCNC.

HCNC Programs and Services

Education

HCNC provides educational opportunities to students and educators through its various programs:[1]

  • Survivors Speakers Bureau
  • Manovill Holocaust History Fellowship
  • Day of Learning (annual day-long program of workshops on the Holocaust and genocide)
  • Shalhevet (an annual trip to Poland and Israel)
  • Morris Weiss scholarship
  • Educator workshops
  • Educator resource center

HCNC also provides adult education opportunities by sponsoring lectures and film series, and collaborating with other cultural institutions to co-sponsor community performances, exhibits, films, conferences and seminars.

HCNC is a primary sponsor of annual community Yom HaShoah commemorations throughout the Bay Area.

Research

HCNC's Laszlo N. Tauber Library and Research includes over 12,000 volumes on the Holocaust and genocide, as well as an archives which features personal papers, government records, rare books, photographs, artifacts and special collections. Special collections include a Historical Pamphlet collection, Periodicals collection, Survivor Testimony collection, and oral history transcripts.[4]

HCNC has one of the largest Yizkor (memorial) book collections in the world, with over 500 rare Yizkor books.[5]

Oral History Project

HCNC's Oral History Project records interviews with Holocaust survivors, including refugees, hidden children, children sent on the Kindertransport, as well as interviews with liberators of concentration camps and witnesses to the events of the Holocaust.

OHP has over 2000 recorded video and audio oral testimonies, which are available for research, as well as 800 transcripts.

References

1. ^Holocaust Center of Northern California {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090411212908/http://hcnc.org/ |date=2009-04-11 }}
2. ^"What’s old is new: Holocaust Center now part of JFCS" J Weekly, January 27, 2011
3. ^"Holocaust Center to open in new space" San Francisco Chronicle, March 11, 2005.
4. ^"Holocaust Center's vast library finds breathing room in new home" J Weekly, October 29, 2004.
5. ^Yizkor Books in the Tauber Holocaust Library (formerly the Center of Northern California), accessed 2013-05-21.

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090411212908/http://hcnc.org/ Holocaust Center of Northern California]
  • JFCS Holocaust Center
  • Tauber Holocaust Library

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