Welcome to the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine Website
We are here to answer your questions about the HHRC. This site is designed to be your ultimate resource on the work we do here at the HHRC. We open you enjoy it, and that you will stop in some time to our center in Maine, and will take advantage of all the services we have to offer.
About the HHRC
Our human rights center began with a seminar. This seminar was about education, specifically about teaching about the Nazi Holocaust in Maine Public Schools. Attendees at the seminar were engaged, and it inspired them to think about the fragility of democracy. These attendees decided to carry on this noble work. Under the guidance and leadership of a Holocaust survivor and book author about the Holocaust, Gerda Haas, they began the HHRC and resolved to carry on the work.
Officially beginning in 1985, the vision of the HHRC has been to educate others about the tragedy of the Holocaust, and to promote human rights, and celebrate differences and diversity. Its mission is to to teach about the Holocaust and about the great tragedies than can happen when basic human rights are taken away.
Programs and Projects
It programs, the HHRC is working to reduce prejudice, teach students to think critically, and most important, to empower students in the Maine schools to take active roles in the promoting of a humane and tolerant society.
The HHRC provides service to the whole state of Maine, which includes programs for both children and adults. Every school, from kindergarten to high school and public or private will be able to request and receive free resource guides developed by our organization.Seminars, lectures, and workshops are given all throughout the state of Maine. Most events are held in Augusta and Portland, where we have the biggest membership base, but we travel all over to spread our message.
We have undergone many projects to help further human rights in the state of Maine. We have agreements with the state’s Department of Education, the local libraries, and the university system to help to develop and promote curriculum materials that relate to the Holocaust, and the human rights issues involved in the tragedy.
Seminars
We hold annual seminars for teachers. These seminars are designed to be intensive and interdisciplinary five day residential seminars.
The first seminar, Session 1, is a five day long seminar that includes sessions designed to provide a historical perspective and comprehensive understanding of the Holocaust. We believe that the Holocaust holds implications for the twenty-first century, and our seminars explore this idea.
This course is primarily designed for teachers who are new at teaching the Holocaust in their curriculum, as well as those teachers who want to add a more historical perspective to their curriculums.
Programs in this seminar will include lectures by distinguished Holocaust scholars, presentations by survivors as well as authors, and workshops lead by teachers who have extensive experience in Holocaust education. In addition to lectures, presentations, and workshops, documentaries and films will be screened.
Because our organization came from discussions as a seminar, during our seminars there is a special emphasis on discussions and panel talks. These conversations focus on sharing ideas, strategies, and curriculum resources to use in the classroom.
These workshops are offered using resource guides based on literature, and focused on diversity, human rights, and the Holocaust. To keep up with current events, there is also a unit on American Terrorism. This unit is meant to help students and teachers to help students deal with the tragedy of the attacks, and to help teachers learn how to teach them without blame.
The second seminar, Session 2, is focused on integration of the arts in the teaching of the Holocaust. This seminar is held at the same time as session 1.
This seminar was first created by the HHRC to help deepen teachers’ curriculum and to extend the study of the Holocaust into mediums such as art, literature, film and documentary, music, history, and personal accounts.
Within this advanced seminar, attendees will go to lectures and presentations lead by Holocaust scholars, Holocaust survivors, and fellow educators and teachers.
Participants in this seminar will review books, films and documentaries. They will also discuss many different concepts, methods, and resources to help integrate the arts into Holocaust units of school curriculums.
This seminar will also give educators and teachers a chance to discuss the logic, content, methods, and curriculum provided in the resource guides first developed by the HHRC. We value our participants input as we strive to create a Holocaust curriculum that can best enlighten both students and teachers.
These seminars cost $350, which covers room and board. There are also scholarships available which are awarded based on need.
We hope you can attend a seminar, or an event at our home base in Maine. We look forward to meeting you.
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