Using the resources of our museum, our mission is to educate students and adults in the Philadelphia area and throughout the world, personalizing the Holocaust so that they learn the consequences of racism, ethnic cleansing, and intolerance.
Educator of the Year
By: Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center
Educator of the Year
By: Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center
Using the resources of our museum, our mission is to educate students and adults in the Philadelphia area and throughout the world, personalizing the Holocaust so that they learn the consequences of racism, ethnic cleansing, and intolerance.
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HAMEC's 10th Annual Educator of the Year Event
You are invited to join HAMEC on Sunday, May 15th at 3pm EDT as we celebrate the incredible work and achievements of Professor Jonathan Friedman. Dr. Friedman, the chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at West Chester University, is a longstanding an important figure in Holocaust Education in the Delaware Valley, and we are proud to honor him with our annual Educator of the Year Award.
Jonathan Friedman is currently Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and professor of history at West Chester University. He is the author of 10 books, most recently a monograph Haunted Laughter: Representations of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust in Comedic Film and Television (Rowman and Littlefield, Lexington Books, 2022). A graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, Dr. Friedman has served as a historian at both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due to current public health policies in Philadelphia, HAMEC will be requiring masks at this in-person event when guests are not seated and eating.
About HAMEC
The Jewish Identity Center's Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center, America's first Holocaust Museum, is 60 years young. Yaakov Riz, the museum's founder, was a Holocaust survivor who lost 83 members of his family in Adolf Hitler's concentration camps. Riz vowed that if he survived he would dedicate his life to establishing a museum that would memorialize the millions of Jews and Non-Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis.
HAMEC's educational programs and survivor testimony presentations reach tens of thousands of students each year. The museum's programming spans from the Delaware Valley to the whole United States to around the world.
During the last 59 years, more than 200,000 students and adult have participated in museum programs.
For the past year, the reach of our virtual programming has spread even further. In the midst of a worldwide pandemic, we were still able to provide programming for over 20,000 students worldwide during this past school year, including students in South Africa, Nigeria, Poland, and Wales.
