Holocaust and Genocide Resources: Local Resources

The Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center
at Stockton University

  The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center’s mission is as follows:

• To commemorate the Holocaust and develop sensitivity and understanding by combating antisemitism, racism, hatred and oppression.
• To memorialize the victims of the Holocaust and pay tribute to the survivors, liberators, and eyewitnesses.
• To focus on the study of the Holocaust by fostering academic research and by serving as a repository for Holocaust materials including oral histories.
• To participate in educating future generations by sponsoring awareness programs and exhibits, by providing workshops and seminars to train those teaching the Holocaust, and by making available printed and audio-visual material to students, educators, and scholars.
• To promote greater awareness of the Holocaust through special activities such as symposia and lectures.

The Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage

The Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage is committed to preserving memories and teaching the history of those who created the legacy of Woodbine. The museum became an extension of Stockton University in 2011. A new instructional site was constructed on museum grounds to accommodate undergraduate and graduate credit courses. The addition, named Anne Azeez Hall, represents Stockton University’s footprint in Cape May County.

Esther Raab Holocaust Museum and Goodwin Education Center

The Jewish Community Relations Council of Southern New Jersey (JCRC of SNJ) unifies, mobilizes, represents, and is responsible to the Southern New Jersey Jewish community on public advocacy concerns.  As an agency of the Jewish Federation on Southern New Jersey, our JCRC works on behalf of the Jewish community to address the concerns of Jews here and abroad through strengthening inter-group understanding, promoting the peaceful resolution of conflicts, and enhancing a just and pluralist society. 

Jewish Community Relations Council
1301 Springdale Road
Suite 200
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003-2761

For more information please contact Helen Kirschbaum, Esther Raab Holocaust Museum & Goodwin Education Center Director (856)-751-9500 ext 1249 or hkirschbaum@jfedsnj.org

N.J. Commission on Holocaust Education

The core mission of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education is to promote Holocaust education in the State of New Jersey. On a continual basis, the Commission shall survey the status of Holocaust/Genocide Education; design, encourage and promote the implementation of Holocaust and genocide education and awareness