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Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County

Glen Cove, NY, US • 20 - 49 Employees
Non-Profit

The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County is the pre-eminent Holocaust resource on Long Island, with a contemporary museum, and is one of the largest and most comprehensive education program providers in the region. Under construction and scheduled to open in late 2014, the Claire Friedlander Education Institute will accommodate four fully equipped classrooms with state-of–the-art audio-visual aids and cutting edge technical equipment for specialized video-conferencing programs and a wide variety of workshops for for specialized Holocaust video-conferencing programs and a wide variety of workshops for youth and adults. With the Louis Posner Memorial Library, the Center offers over 7,000 volumes of Holocaust, genocide, multicultural, anti-bias and anti-bullying material for youth and adults, from Kindergarten through post-graduate researchers. It is the largest such collection on Long Island. The Children's Memorial Garden, the only garden of its kind in New York State, was created as a living tribute to the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, and the countless thousands of other children who were casualties of World War II. Additional information is available online at www.holocaust-nassau.org.