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Holocaust Education and Community Resources

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me.”
Rev. Martin Niemöller 
German Lutheran pastor

Henia Ring Schiff
Inside the Henia Ring Schiff Holocaust Resource Collection are materials – the books, the maps, the documents – that tell the story of the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.

The collection is housed at the Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library in Oklahoma City and was established as a result of the collaborative efforts of the Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City, the Oklahoma City Community Foundation and the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Library System.

Henia Ring entered the first of three Nazi concentration camps at age 16. But it is the life she chose to live after her release in 1945 that inspired her husband, Max Schiff, to create a Holocaust Resource Collection in her honor and her memory.  The Henia Ring Schiff Holocaust Resource Collection was dedicated on Thursday, October 28, 2004 and is open for all students, educators, public and private, to become informed so that this evil will never happen again.

Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, features photos of some of the 6 million Jewish victims.

 
“Out of our memory … of the Holocaust we must forge an unshakeable oath with all civilized people that never again will the world stand silent, never again will the world … fail to act in time to prevent this terrible crime of genocide … we must harness the outrage of our own memories to stamp out oppression wherever it exists. We must understand that human rights and human dignity are invisible.” 
Jimmy Carter
39th President of the United States
September 27, 1979

 

The Valley of Lost Communities at Yad Vashem commemorates the Jewish communities decimated by the Nazis in the Holocaust.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION , PLEASE CONTACT:
Melinda Parks, Holocaust Education and Community Resources
Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City
(405) 848-3132    office@jfedokc.org 

 

Holocaust Links

The sites listed below can be helpful in researching the Holocaust. The appropriateness of the material is dependent upon the individuals using or viewing the information. All material should be previewed before using in the classroom to determine the suitability for the intended audience.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City endorses the guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust outlined by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This information can be found at A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust link below.