HOLOCAUST CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE PROGRAM
In order to have an impact on Holocaust education on a national scale, the JFR established the Holocaust Centers of Excellence Program in the spring of 2000. Through the program, the JFR has formed partnerships with selected Holocaust centers across the country, and in so doing, has invested in the disparate communities in which the centers are located. There are currently seventeen participating centers. They are listed below. Pictured here are several of the center directors at the 2008 annual meeting of the Association of Holocaust Organizations.

In 2009, the JFR invited two centers to join the program. They are the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine in Auguesta, Maine.

The Holocaust Centers of Excellence Program is a partnership between the JFR and the participating Holocaust center. In agreeing to participate in the program, each center receives two initial scholarships for the Summer Institute for Teachers and commits to nominating two educators each year thereafter. Additionally, each center agrees to sponsor Holocaust teacher education programs that draw on JFR materials and training models. The centers make a commitment to teach the Holocaust in as comprehensive a manner as possible and to include the subject of rescue. Teachers who attend JFR programs - known as Alfred Lerner Fellows - form a cadre of educators for each local center as well as for the JFR.

For a list of JFR Holocaust Centers of Excellence, please click here.