New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education

New Jersey Commission
on Holocaust Education
Agency overview
Formed 1991[1]
Preceding agency
  • New Jersey Holocaust Council
Jurisdiction New Jersey
Headquarters P.O. Box 500 Trenton, NJ 08625
Agency executives
  • Phil Kirschner, Chairman
  • Paul B. Winkler, Executive Director
Parent agency New Jersey Department of Education
Website http://www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/

The New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education is a government agency of the U.S. state of New Jersey. Its core mission is to promote Holocaust education throughout the state by surveying, designing, encouraging and promoting Holocaust and genocide education and awareness. It also provides programs and coordinates events to memorialize The Holocaust.

The Commission presents "The Hela Young Award" each year "to honor a person in recognition of outstanding work in the community for the improvement of human relations among diverse peoples and for the improvement of the human condition."[2] The award is named for Hela Yungst, a former television entertainer and beauty pageant winner, and past president of the Commission.

Curriculums

  • 2013 High School Curriculum developed together with Prakhin International Literary Foundation "Stalin and his Repressive regime 1922- 1953"[3]

References

  1. ↑ "About us", Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education website, accessed September 19, 2009.
  2. ↑ "Hela Young Award", New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education website, accessed September 18, 2009.
  3. ↑ http://www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/curriculum/StalinCurriculum.pdf
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