In 1984, a small group of Holocaust survivors joined together to develop a permanent memorial in Miami to the six million Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis. A year later, the Holocaust Memorial Committee was formally established as a private non-profit organization. The committee decided that Miami Beach was the perfect location for such a memorial, as South Florida has one of the highest populations of Holocaust survivors in the United States, with many of them residing within the city limits. Read more about the history on the memorial website.
Designated Learning Sites in Florida:
For the past eight years, Searching For Identity has been meeting with the children and and grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, known as the 2nd and 3rd Gen. Our writing and discussion workshops encourage these next generations to write about and share their experiences. To preserve this information, we capture these stories on film, through art and published works and also offer programs that reveal the generational effects of Holocaust survivorship.
Holocaust Education Week in Florida is held annually the second week in November which coincides with the anniversary of Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, a major turning point in the persecution of European Jews by the Nazi regime. The Commissioner’s Task Force on Holocaust Education identifies the following resources to assist K-12 educators in structuring Holocaust Education Week lessons.
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