New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education

New Jersey Commission
on Holocaust Education

Agency overview
Formed	1991
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." 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"

External links

• Official website
• Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Education Center at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, NJ
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