Helen and Sol Krawitz

Holocaust Memorial and Education Center

Helen and Sol Krawitz Holocaust Memorial & Education Center and Holocaust Resources

Our Center brings Holocaust education to the community in a variety of ways.

We provide workshops for teens and college age students.
We give scholarships for an important experience called the March of the Living.
We facilitate community programming.

In an effort to build a web of connection, past and present, within our survivor and descendant communities, we tell the stories of our local survivors. Our goal is to fight against Holocaust denial, antisemitism, hate and intolerance of all kinds. We cannot do this important work without your support.

Donate

Please donate and check the “Dedicate this donation” box and when specifying in honor or in memory of, include ONE (1) of the following in your description:

The Education Fund
The March of the Living Scholarship Fund
Discretionary or most needed

Upcoming Holocaust Related Programs

Visit our online Memorial Education Center to learn more about the Holocaust and Local Survivors

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From Generation to Generation

OUR EDUCATION CENTER
• Provides Extensive Information on Holocaust History.
• Establishes a Survivor Registry and Database for our Community
• Archives in the Registry Family Photos, Videos and Memorabilia
• Gives Voice in the Registry to the Survivors’ Descendants
• Provides Programs and Speakers
• Provides Student Scholarships For March of the Living

Join Us in Establishing our Holocaust Memorial & Education Center

MAJOR GIFTS & NAMING OPPORTUNITIES

Holocaust Memorial and Education Center $ 100,000
Holocaust Programming Endowment $ 50,000
March of the Living Endowment (4) $ 25,000
Education Centers (2) $ 25,000

DONATIONS IN MEMORY OR HONOR OF LOVED ONES OR OTHERS

Cornerstone: $18,000
Benefactor: $9,000
Partner: $7,200
Patron: $5,400
Sponsor: $3,600
Supporter $1,800

BECOME A FRIEND OF THE CENTER
All donations below $1,800.

Our Center in the News

On MyCentralNJ.com: Never again: Holocaust Memorial and Education Center opens at JCC in Bridgewater
On NJ.com: Jewish Community Center marks opening of Holocaust Memorial and Education Center

Frequently Asked Questions About Our Registry

I was not in any camp. Am I a Holocaust Survivor?

Our Registry honors as survivors and victims any person or persons who were displaced, persecuted or discriminated against due to the racial, religious, ethnic and political policies of the Nazi’s and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945.

In addition to inmates of concentration camps, ghettos and prisons, this definition includes people who were refugees, partisans and those in hiding.

I am a survivor living in New Jersey, but I don’t live in your county. Can I register?

Yes. Although we were focusing our efforts on registering survivors and their Descendants from our three counties (Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren), any survivor in New Jersey or Descendant may now register.

I am a 2nd Generation Descendant living in New Jersey. My survivor parents are deceased. May I tell their story?

Yes. That is what makes our Registry unique. We are Registering 2nd, 3rd and 4th Generation Descendants in our “Voices from the Descendants” Registry so that they may continue to tell their families’ survivor stories.

In this way, we are building our local survivor community. Use the same application form and follow the instructions on the back page.

I don’t like forms. Is the information on the form confidential?

Yes. All the personal information on the form is confidential. No personal facts are placed on our computers in the Center (like address, email, phone number, etc). You can mark as confidential any fact you do not want to disclose or leave it blank.

What about family story? Is that confidential?

Yes. We follow all confidentiality protocols of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

Our Survivor Registry is private; that is, it can only be accessed on site in our Center. It is not on the internet. We do not give out your information to any other source.

Is there any financial obligation with Registration?

No. All registries are free.

What happens after I fill out and Mail in the Application Form?

We will contact you by email or phone to set up a personal Interview listen to your story if you have never registered before, or to gather materials if you have told your story before and want to submit testimony.

I have never told my story before. I don’t like to fill out forms. Is there help?

Yes. Call 908-725-6994 and ask for Nancy Gorrell for help or questions or email info@ssbjcc.org.

I am a 2nd Generation survivor. I have family photographs. Can I donate them?

Yes. We welcome donations of family photographs, but we are not a museum, and therefore, do not have the space to archive or display originals.

But we do encourage you to donate electronic photographs or originals and we will copy and return them to you.

I am a 2nd Generation survivor. I have family artifacts, memorabilia and medals. Can I donate them?

Yes. But we are not a museum, and therefore, we do not have the space to archive, or display original artifacts.

We do encourage you to donate photographs of the artifacts, memorabilia and medals explaining their significance.