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Past Events
The following are just some of the events HERC has hosted in the past.
May 23, 2010: Holocaust Art/Essay Contest Awards Ceremony
Holocaust Art/Essay Contest Awards Ceremony — The Holocaust Education Resource Council (HERC) will present its Fourth Annual Student Holocaust Essay/Art Contest Awards Ceremony. The creative competition helps promote understanding and tolerance of cultural diversity. The non-profit organization encourages students in grades 4th – 12th to learn about and express themselves about the lessons of the Holocaust, including the nature and repercussions of unchecked hatred and prejudice. The contest is one of many venues used to help reach students while meeting state mandated educational standards. The Awards Ceremony will be held on May 23, 2010, at Temple Israel. It will be held at 3:00pm and everyone is invited.
The contest theme is designed to inspire students’ creativity as well as help them understand their connection to the Holocaust by issuing a challenge to participants with the following theme: “Who were the Heroes of the Holocaust? Discuss their courage and their impact.”
“It is imperative our future generations recognize the danger of prejudice and hate by approaching others with respect and acceptance. History has proven how much deep and lasting harm can be inflicted upon individuals and society when any hate or prejudice is allowed to grow unchecked to an ultimate extreme. One of the objectives of HERC is to help individuals understand how each of us can work proactively to ensure that history does not repeat itself.
April 30 , 2010: Holocaust Art/Essay Contest DEADLINE
Annual Holocaust Art/Essay Contest Deadline — The annual contest encourages students to learn about and understand the lessons of the Holocaust, including the nature and repercussions of unchecked hate and prejudice taken to their ultimate extremes. This year's contest prompt is "Who were the Heroes of the Holocaust? Discuss their courage and their impact.? The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2010. Click here for more details.
April 11, 2010: Holocaust Remembrance Program
The service will be held 2pm at Temple Israel in the Sanctuary followed by the HERC program in the social hall (around 2:45pm).
Program: Yocheved Artzi (Thomasville author of Stealing German Bread) lecture and book signing. Following will be candle lighting with reception provided by Susan Turner and Food Glorious Food
Stealing German Bread
Yochevet Artzi MS LMFT
 The Nazis’ crushing brutality on over six million lives could not undermine the love between two sisters, as Yocheved Artzi reveals in Stealing German Bread
Yochevet Artzi's memoir brings to light sisterly bond that endured Nazi camp horrors
Author Yocheved Artzi MS LMFT, brings readers back to the life-scarring torments of the Holocaust in a heartfelt and touching memoir Stealing German Bread. Artzi demonstrates the strength that love provides to endure a most horrific human experience at the hands of the Nazis. Stealing German Bread recounts the true story of two sisters jolted out of a normal life in Hungary and thrown straight into Auschwitz , the largest of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Beginning with a recurring dream of a mother, a dream that reappears nightly well into years after the war, this touching and heartfelt tale shares how the two sisters supported each other throughout the unspeakable atrocities inside the camp.
Artzi, who was born six years after the Holocaust, brings her personal thoughts and feelings into this book as a child who grew up in Israel among many Holocaust survivors. She reveals how her eighty-year-old mother found comfort in retelling her experience during the Nazi regime via transatlantic phone calls sixty years after the war.
Profoundly emotive, Stealing German Bread examines up close the deep-rooted reverberations that the Holocaust created on the survivors, and explores the extraordinary strengths that love can awaken in a person.
Yocheved Artzi will sign copies of Stealing German Bread on April 11, 2010, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
About the Author: Yocheved Artzi, MS LMFT, is an Israeli writer who divides her life between her native country, Israel , and her chosen state, Georgia , USA . She is a mother of three children and works as a licensed marriage and family therapist in her own clinic in Thomasville, Georgia . She is also the author of I Have Two Countries, a collection of poems reflecting the soul of a therapist and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
Sponsored by: Temple Israel, Congregation Shomrei Torah, Holocaust Education Resource Council
November 9, 2009: Kristallnacht Dinner Program
71st Kristallnacht Memorial Dinner — This dinner program will be held on the 71th Anniversary Commemorative of Kristallnacht. The menu features recipes from Holocaust Survivor Cookbook and prepared at Hillel at FSU. This event engages students and the community while Holocaust Survivors share stories of miracles and courage. Click here for a flyer.
October 26, 2009: Teacher Training Workshop
Teaching About the Holocaust — The Holocaust Education Resource Council is sponsoring a one-day teacher workshop, free of charge, to classroom teachers, and educators of language arts and social studies, though all disciplines are welcomed. The workshop is free of charge and a light breakfast, lunch and teaching materials are also provided, free of charge. This workshop will focus on rationale, technology and resources for teaching about the Holocaust. Click here for the workshop agenda. The Forum will be October 26, 2009 from 9:00 - 3:30 pm at Tallahassee Community College (Workforce for Economic Development). Click here for a flyer. To register contact: (850)443-9649 or via email at holocausteducationtallahassee@yahoo.com
May 17, 2009: Holocaust Art/Essay Contest Awards Ceremony
 This annual contest encourages students to learn about and understand the lessons of the Holocaust, including the nature and repercussions of unchecked hate and prejudice taken to their ultimate extremes. The deadline for this year's Essay/Art Contest is April 24, 2009. Click here for contest details.
April 17-22, 2009: The One Soul Exhibition: When Humanity Fails
 A new exhibit to be housed in the LeRoy Collins Public Library that explores the events of the Holocaust and highlights the heroic actions of individuals. Sponsored by the Holocaust Education Resource Council in cooperation with the Afikim Foundation, the installation will be open to the public and will be on display from Friday, April 17 - Wednesday, April 22, 2009. It will be one in a series of events around Tallahassee that will reflect on personal experiences of the Holocaust and lessons learned that can help to prevent future genocides.. Click here for more information about the exhibit. Or, see The Afikim Foundation publication Heroes: When Humanity Triumphs.
April 15- May 17, 2009: Holocaust Remembrance Exhibit Events
The local Holocaust Education Resource Council is hosting a series of events for its inaugural Holocaust Remembrance Campaign to keep the memory of the devastating events of the Holocaust alive. Click here for more information.
January 23, 2009: Holocaust Survivor Speaks at Chiles High School
 Larry Friedlander was born on 13 April 1925 in Brieg , Germany . His ancestors had been in Brieg since the middle 1600ʼs. Brieg is now part of Poland . His mother, father, brother (Werner, who lives in New York City with his wife) left Brieg in early 1940 for Shanghai . In 1947, the entire family emigrated to the United States , eventually ending up in Peoria , Illinois . He met the former Marian Mendelson in Tallahassee in early 1953 and they married on 3 October 1953. He currently resides in Oakland Park , Florida , a suburb of Fort Lauderdale . In 1939, thousands of Jewish refugees escaped Nazi persecution to the only place that was open to them known as the Shanghai Ghetto. For more information about the Shanghai Ghetto see www.rickshaw.org.
January 22, 2009: "Rape of Europa" Film Documentary
 The picture painted by this film is not pretty, but it is a difficult one to turn away from. --Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Lincoln High School Forum
This event is geared toward all middle and high school teachers — Come hear educators share their powerful knowledge and see the film. You will receive a copy DVD after attending film presentation. RSVP to Barbara Goldstein via email or by calling 443-9649. For more information about the film as provided in a review from the Los Angeles Times., click here.
October 27, 2008: Journey to Justice - Documentary
 Journey to Justice is the award-winning documentary film by Steve Palackdharry. It tells the story of Howard Triest, a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany in 1939 when he was 16-years old, returned as an American soldier and then served as an interpreter during the Nuremberg Trial.
October 27, 2008: Holocaust Teacher Training Workshop
To provide teachers with knowledge and skills to help them prepare and present lessons about the Holocaust that will educate students about it and will encourage them to develop character, compassion and civility in their daily lives. Click here for details.
October 28-29, 2007: NCJW Teacher Workship
Third workshop for teachers. Keynote speaker was Dr. Michael Berenbaum, noted author, historian, and Holocaust Museum consultant. Past President and Chief Executive Officer, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Former Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. See details.
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On October 27, 2008, one survivor helped local teachers understand the importance of spreading the "never forget" message to students. 
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