The Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and 

Human Rights ​Education of North Carolina ​

& 

​Holocaust Speakers Bureau 

"One Survivor Remembers" Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Elon University, Elon, NC
April 15, 2015

Holocaust Remembrance Day: "Learning from the Holocaust: Choosing to Act"
Fort Bragg, NC
April 28, 2015

"Memory and Survival of the Holocaust: Everyday Life in the Terezin Camp in Czechoslovakia"
Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
January 27, 2015

70th Anniversary Commemoration of the Liberation of Auschwitz
The Cedars, Chapel Hill, NC
January 26, 2015

Unveiling of Dachau Ashes Monument
Durham Hebrew Cemetery, Durham, NC
April 26, 2015
For more information on the monument, visit sculptor Mike Roag's webpage.
To read about how the ashes came to Durham, visit the links to newspaper articles listed on our In the News page.

NC Civic Education Consortium Teacher Workshop: “Beyond the Battlefield: Exploring the Role of Fear, Prejudice & Anti-Semitism During WWII.”
NC Museum of History, Raleigh, NC
August 6-7, 2015

Holocaust Educators Network North Carolina Summer Seminar for Educators
Raleigh, NC
June 26, 2015
Teacher Juanita Ray, who took this photograph, was inspired to write a poem about it (see sidebar).

Two girls--hand in hand. 
Their experiences spanning over 90 years.
One a Catholic, one a Jew.
One a teenager, one a great-grandmother.
Both with a sweet spirit
With eyes that glistened with
Humanity and love,
But also with fun and mischief.
  
This simple gesture...
This taking of a hand.
As Rebecca grinned and said,
"I can move a little faster if someone will give me a hand."
And the young girl answered,
"I've got you."
 
That gesture, that moment
That is what the truth is...
Two girls from very different worlds
Hand in hand,
Experiences spanning over 90 years.
Where once there was hatred
and division and the other...
Now there is a bond.
Their stories are forever linked
By a smile, by a hand, by a simple,
"I've got you.”
          --Juanita Ray

Esther Lederman speaks to students at East Chapel Hill High School

Chapel Hill, NC
September 9, 2015

Past Events 2015

Duke Coalition for Preserving Memory: Name Reading Ceremony
Duke University, Durham, NC
April 12, 2015

Reading of the Names
Lerner Day School, Durham, NC
April 16, 2015

"50 Children" Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Levin Jewish Community Center, Durham, NC
April 7, 2015