The story and lessons of the Holocaust are taught in every Florida public school at every level.  The Center was commissioned by the Florida Department of Education to develop and distribute thousands of copies of the State of Florida Resource Manual on Holocaust Education for grades K-3, 4-6, and 9-12, in both hard copy and CD-ROM formats.  Today the Holocaust education has become an "Imperative to Remember" for the state of Florida.

Elie Wiesel Letter

Teaching about the Holocaust is an extremely powerful tool in educating children about prejudice, racism, and stereotyping. The State of Florida embraced this idea in 1994 when Governor Lawton Chiles signed legislation creating the Florida Holocaust Education Mandate which involves the teaching of Holocaust education to every Florida student from grades K-12.

The statute reads as follows:

FLORIDA STATUTE 1003.42
The history of the Holocaust (1933-1945), the systematic, planned annihilation of European Jews and other groups by Nazi Germany, a watershed event in the history of humanity, to be taught in a manner that leads to an investigation of human behavior, an understanding of the ramification of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping, and an examination of what it means to be a responsible and respectful person, for the purposes of encouraging tolerance of diversity in a pluralistic society and for nurturing and protecting democratic values and institutions.

1194 Florida Legislature - Senate bill No .660