The Holocaust Documentation and Education Center & Museum

Holocaust Rail Car Is Now in South Florida

Photo courtesy of the City of Hollywood

The Holocaust Documentation and Education Center and the City of Hollywood unveiled the authentic rail car from Poland in February, 2007.

For rail car details and photographs, click button on right.

A Legacy of Remembrance

A Legacy of Remembrance

The Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, Inc. in North Miami Beach, Florida, which was established in 1979 as a nonsectarian, nonprofit organization, has 25 years later acquired a 14,000 square foot facility to house the first South Florida Holocaust Museum.

World Renown Artist - ROMERO BRITTO Commissioned to create the Center's Butterfly of Memory and Hope

World Renown Artist - ROMERO BRITTO Commissioned to create the Center's

Butterfly of Memory and Hope

The Butterfly Pin and the Butterfly Cufflinks are unique and beautifully crafted, 14K gold jewelry designed by renown Pop artist Romero Britto exclusively for the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center.

Holocaust Survivors Home Healthcare
and
Reparation/Restitution

Dear Survivors and Family Members:

If you have any issues regarding home health care or reparation and restitution, please click here.

We have contact information on various agencies who may be able to help you.

RAFFLE!

2007-2008 winners announced!

First Prize: Alaskan Cruise for 2

Click here to see who won!

Click here for a map to our organization!

	Join & Become a Member We invite you to join us in our efforts to build a Legacy of Remembrance. All membership donations and pledges directly fund the Center's educational activities. For more information on how you can help support our mission, please read further.

	Volunteers Needed We are in need of individuals who can devote their valuable time to help support our goal of A Living Memorial Through Education. At this time, we especially need videographers!

	Call for Artifacts Do you have Holocaust artifacts? We need artifacts from pre-Holocaust life, Holocaust and post-Holocaust life for the new South Florida Holocaust Museum. If you possess any memorabilia and would like to contribute to the Museum, please don’t throw it out. Contact us, so that we can help others remember.

	Student Awareness Days Don't miss the opportunity to participate in these prejudice reduction programs as a Survivor or by becoming a facilitator. We look forward to having you involved.

Library News
Meet the Author Series Join us at our Center at 2031 Harrison Street, Hollywood, Florida for presentations by the following authors (click on link for more information): Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 2:30 p.m.: Steven V. Gure: Life: A True Story [No August author scheduled] [No September author scheduled] Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 2:30 p.m.: Danny Taran: The 4000 Year Journey in Search of Peace Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 2:30 p.m.: Allen Brayer: Hiding in Death's Shadow: How I Survived the Holocaust Sunday, December 14, 2008 at 2:30 p.m.: Kurt Moses: Home at Last Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 2:30 p.m.: Dr. Myron Winick: Final Stamp: Story of the Jewish Doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 2:30 p.m.: Celia Henick Feldman Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 2:30 p.m.: Richard Weilheimer: Be Happy, Be Free, Dance!: A Holocaust Survivor's Message to His Grandchildren Seating is limited, so please RSVP to Regina at (954) 929-5690 or email regina@hdec.org. Library Call for Books, Films, and Volunteers The Center is currently accepting book and films donations for our new Reference and Research Library. We would especially appreciate memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, films on DVD, historical atlases, historical maps, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and recent scholarly monographs pertaining to the Holocaust. We would be delighted to accept books written in English, German, Polish, Hebrew, Yiddish, Spanish, and French. For more information on donating works to our Library, or on performing volunteer Library work, please contact us at (954) 929-5690.