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Dayton Holocaust Resource Center
The Dayton Holocaust Resource Center in Dayton, Ohio is responsible for storing, maintaining, purchasing, and disseminating Holocaust educational materials for teachers and researchers in the greater Dayton area. The Center houses videotapes, curriculum materials, research and reference sources, periodicals, books, and objects of historical interest. It also maintains a web site for the use of teachers and students. Since the focus of this Center is education, priority is given to acquiring videotapes and curriculum materials for teachers to use free of charge in order to facilitate and promote Holocaust education in the classroom. The Holocaust Education Committee also promotes study of the Holocaust by sponsoring conferences, teacher workshops, and speakers, and by publishing (on paper and on the Internet) resource guides, bibliographies and databases on the Holocaust.

The Charles and Renate Frydman Educational Resource Center

The Educational Resource Center (ERC) is an academic support unit of the College of Education and Human Services at Wright State University. It provides intellectual and physical access to current state-of-the-art materials, equipment and services benefiting educators, human services professionals, students, and others. Its mission is to serve as a role model in the use of technology and to offer support in preparing exemplary professionals. The ERC strives to provide leadership, instruction, and consulting assistance in the use of instructional technology. The Instructional Materials Center and the Media Production Lab are both parts of the Educational Resource Center.

Prejudice and Memory

The Holocaust Resource Center's mobile exhibit Prejudice and Memory was one of the first of its kind in the world. Designed for use in schools and museums, the exhibit travelled around Ohio for two years. Finally the cost of moving the exhibit, and the wear and tear, led to a decision to house it permanently at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. It was designed by graduate students in Wright State University's museums and archives program under the direction of Brian Hackett of the Montgomery County Historical Society (now Dayton History). Funding came from private donors, Culture Works, and especially, from the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation. Renate Frydman has supervised the project from its inception and through its travels, and oversees the educational programs now in place at the Air Force Museum. Prejudice and Memory is intended to answer a wide and growing demand from teachers and students in western Ohio for information on the Holocaust as an object lesson in race hatred and prejudice, and what happens when we fail to oppose them.

The main exhibit consists of a free- standing rectangular display about eight feet long and six feet high, with a set of Plexiglas panels containing photographs and text. The tops of the panels have jagged edges to represent the "broken glass" of Kristallnacht in 1938. Behind the panels (which are removable, in the hopes that we can afford to have alternate panels made at a future date) is a permanent backdrop, a life-size photograph of children looking through the barbed wire of a concentration camp. Also part of the exhibit are a number of artifacts donated by local survivors (a camp uniform, ghetto money, a violin with a fascinating history, flags, original photographs, etc). Prejudice and Memory is accompanied by information handouts (for students and the public) and curriculum guides (for teachers). There is also a comprehensive booklet, "The People of Prejudice and Memory," available in the museum gift shop. Also included is a remarkable series of photographs of the camps by Cy Lehrer.

The exhibit's grand opening was held at the Dayton Museum of Natural History (now the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery) from September 21 to November 23, 1997.

Faces of the Holocaust

"Faces of the Holocaust" is a unique series of fifteen videotapes created expressly as a classroom resource and curriculum supplement. The tapes or CDs may be used individually or in any combination, as each stands on its own. They are timed for classroom use, none more than 45 minutes. A teacher's manual is available on the DHRC website.

These are one-of-a-kind stories told by the persons who lived through some of the most traumatic times in history. Survivors of the Holocaust speak of their will to survive - from the brutal death camps to the forests of Poland, from the Ural Mountains in Russia to a bomb shelter in Berlin - these are eye-witness reports.

Seven American soldiers who were liberators of the concentration camps tell their individual stories of the horror they found at the war's end and how they tried to help the survivors of the camps. A Christian woman relates how she saved four Jewish women in her home in Holland during the war despite great danger to herself and her family. The series evolves to the present with interviews with a daughter of survivors and a young German exchange student.

Contests for Students

Each year the DHRC sponsors a writing contests for students in grades 5-12 in the greater Dayton area, as well as the Max May Memorial Holocaust Art Contest for students in the same age group. This contest is held under the auspices of the Holocaust Education Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton. It is sponsored by Renate Frydman and family in memory of Grandfather Max May. Framing of the art is sponsored by Allen Seymour in memory of his wife Carole.

Sinclair Community College

The DHRC also cooperates closely with the Holocaust Remembrance Committee of Sinclair Community College in Dayton. The external link below connects to that committee's website.

Reference

Dayton Holocaust Resource Center

External Links

DHRC website

Charles and Renate Frydman Educational Resource Center, Wright State University

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton

Sinclair Community College Holocaust Remembrance Committee