Posts by HHRC
HHRC Board Members Spiegel and Huynh in the BDN: Racism is a virus too
audaciously “Stereotypes about people of Asian descent date back centuries in the United States to when Chinese migrants first started to arrive in significant numbers in the 1800s. Racist cartoons of the time falsely depicted…
Read MoreJoin POLIN’s 2020 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising social-educational campaign
http://pebama.cz/1738-dtcz14096-hradec-králové-gay-seznamka.html We do encourage you to join us for the eight edition of our “Daffodils” social-educational campaign. We wish to commemorate the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on 19 April 1943, as we have done for the past eight years.
Read MoreHHRC History: Photo of 1984 Summer Seminar at Bowdoin College
Here’s a photo of the class and presenters from the 1984 Summer Seminar that led to the creation of the HHRC along with the cover from the workshop program.
Read MoreEli Wiesel: “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Read MoreMaine Teachers: The HHRC is here for you!
As we transform our offerings, we’d love to hear from you. What can we do to support you? What sorts of resources will be helpful? Most importantly, how are you doing? We are here if you need us this spring.
Read MoreGerda Haas, Holocaust Survivor and HHRC Founder
In April 1985, Governor Brennan hosted tea at the Blaine House in Augusta for a small group of Holocaust survivors and allies to commemorate Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust Day of…
Read MoreThe Holocaust: Presence of the Past
Photographs by Judy Ellis Glickman With my cameras in hand, I walk the endless railroad tracks… All that I see and photograph speaks to me of its past, as if…
Read MoreWere The House Still Standing: Maine Survivors and Liberators Remember the Holocaust
Were the House Still Standing is a project inspired by words… The installation incorporates an innovative approach to storytelling through image, text, sound, and space…enabling us to construct a documentary and visually poetic experience in which individual testimony, collective memory, and history merge within a three dimensional format.
Read MoreMichael’s Story
For the public opening of the Michael Klahr Center in May 2008, HHRC transformed the building’s entrance with an interactive mixed media installation called Michael’s Story. Vivid murals, archival photographs, and…
Read MoreFall 2019 Newsletter
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