We reach new audiences through the following programs:
- Bringing the Lessons Home: Holocaust Education for the Community
- Lift Every Voice
- Adult Literacy Program
- Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust
- Northeast / Mid-Atlantic Regional Partners
- The Center for Humanistic Education at the Ghetto Fighters House, Israel
Bringing the Lessons Home: Holocaust Education for the Community
Launched in 1994, the Museum has developed long-term partnerships with 20 high schools and middle schools that serve the Museum's local community - our nation's capital. Through these partnerships, more than 25,000 students, teachers and parents have received special programming and participated in discussions; more than 600 local educators have attended workshops; and more than 200 students have completed internships and serve as docents for their peers.
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Lift Every Voice
In partnership with pastors, community leaders, teachers, and students in communities where churches have been burned, Lift Every Voice fulfills the Museum's commitment to speak out against acts of hatred and to bring Holocaust education to new communities. Presently, this program extends to churches and communities in nine states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas), and continues to grow in partnership with the National Coalition of Burned Churches, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and a growing number of organizations in each community.
Adult Literacy Program
Through the Lift Every Voice program, a special partnership formed to support adult literacy through Holocaust education. Piloted in Tennessee with great success by the University of Tennessee Center for Literacy Studies and the Tennessee Holocaust Commission, this partnership serves as a model to bring Holocaust education to adults who are learning to read or who are seeking to complete their high school education later in life.
Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust
This unique program, which features local students who serve as tour guides for police, encourages a new dialogue between law enforcement and the community in an era when the challenges for all are greater than ever.
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Northeast / Mid-Atlantic Regional Partners
The Museum is sharing strategies learned from the Bringing the Lessons Home program with communities in Philadelphia and New Jersey.
Northeast / Mid-Atlantic Regional Partners
The Museum is sharing strategies learned from the Bringing the Lessons Home program with communities in Philadelphia and New Jersey.
The Center for Humanistic Education at the Ghetto Fighters House, Israel
With the Ghetto Fighters House in Israel, the Museum has successfully replicated the Bringing the Lessons Home program, which provides Holocaust education opportunities for Arab, Druze, and Jewish communities in Western Galilee.
Our partnership programs offer the following resources and services to participants:
- Transportation to and from the Museum for local groups
- Guided tours of Museum exhibitions before opening hours
- Educational workshops or classes crafted to meet community needs and interests
- Educational resources (books, videos, CD-ROMs, posters, and other materials)
- Support for in-school and in-community activities (including survivor speakers)
- Assistance in developing model units on teaching about the Holocaust
- International student summer seminar
- Internships for students
- Professional development opportunities for educators locally and abroad
