Fostering Humanity Through Education

Welcome to the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education, where we use the lessons of the Holocaust as a beacon of learning, teaching us not just about the horrors of the Holocaust, but also about the power of courage and kindness, and the need for empathy, acceptance, and understanding in our daily lives. Working independently, and in small groups with our staff educators, visitors are encouraged to explore and learn from our Museum’s exhibits and recorded testimonies. Our workshops encourage our visitors to share their thoughts, and reflections about what they have learned and what it means to them. Our hope is that in learning from the past, we can begin to build a better future.

Museum Program Offerings

  • In the midst of the Holocaust, in the worst of times, there were individuals who risked everything to protect others. These individuals are now reverently referred to as “The Righteous Among the Nations.” They sheltered, hid, and saved others from certain death. They did so, at great peril to themselves and their families. This lesson incorporates an audio dramatization (entitled “The Hiding”) along with authentic scenarios, that will explore moral courage, and ask you the question, what would you do?

    60 Minute Workshop/60 Minute Museum Experience

  • This intensive workshop takes a deeper look into morality, and the moral compass of the Righteous Among the Nations and introduces the seeds that produce hate and propaganda.

    In the midst of the Holocaust, in the worst of times, there were individuals who risked everything to protect others. These individuals are now reverently referred to as “The Righteous Among the Nations.” They sheltered, hid, and saved others from certain death. They did so, at great peril to themselves and their families. This lesson incorporates an audio dramatization (entitled “The Hiding”) along with authentic scenarios, that will explore moral courage, and ask you the question, what would you do?

    75 Minute Workshop/75 Minute Museum Experience including Holocaust Survivor recorded testimony

  • Meet and Greet with a Holocaust survivor or WWII Veteran Liberator. A unique opportunity to hear first-hand testimony from a Survivor or Liberator as they share their experience of unfathomable horrors and their stories of perseverance, courage and resilience. Survivor’s or Liberator’s story will be sent prior to visit.

    60 Minute Meet and Greet with Q and A

  • Embracing our neighbors, Embracing our differences. Presents seven powerful skills to combat antisemitism and hate in our daily lives.

    60 Minute Workshop

  • Use the seeds of kindness to promote acceptance and embrace diversity in your home. school/workplace, and community. This workshop is recommended for grades 4-6.

    60 Minute Workshop

  • A unique and interactive presentation with civil rights icon Virginia Norfleet from Haverstraw African American Connection in conjunction with Moral Courage 101 and the Museum Experience.

    Half Day Program

  • Our Professional Development workshops are designed to help address hate and intolerance in classrooms, as well as in our communities. They are designed to foster moral courage, perseverance, resilience using the lessons of the Holocaust. This experiential learning workshop, models strategies and methodology that can be utilized in the classroom.

    Two hour minimum

  • Developed by our in house Holocaust education specialists, this workshop is modeled after our educator professional development programs. It is designed to give student leaders an understanding of the concept of moral courage as learned through the lessons of the Holocaust, and how those lessons can be applied to their own lives. Additionally, it will provide an opportunity for students to achieve the New York State Seal of Civic Readiness.

    Two hour minimum

  • Resilience – Highlighting the actions of children, families and communities during the Holocaust, this exhibit asks us to examine WHAT IS RESILIENCE? Examining the Holocaust through this lens changes the way we think about history and connects with our lives today.

Working independently, and in small groups with our staff educators, visitors are encouraged to explore and learn from our Museum’s exhibits and recorded testimonies. For the most enhanced visit, we recommend up to 75 students per visit for a combined program of Museum Experience and a workshop.

What Our Visitors Have to Say

  • "I have never had so many students thank me, almost with tears in their eyes. Something was stirred in their hearts, and as Alan Moskin says, 'left a mark on their souls,' but in a good way."

    Educator at Lake Lehman High School

  • "I just wanted to say how much we all enjoyed going to the Holocaust Museum. Although such a difficult topic, I found it to be so informative and extremely beneficial for the children to experience. It was such a well-done event. My family really left with a sense of awe."

    Parent of a student from Jewish Federation Youth Group of Orange County

  • "Today really made me feel more hope. Seeing these people risk their lives for people they didn't know. That gives me so much hope that the good in the world will always overpower the bad."

    Student at Suffern H.S. Deaf Awareness Club