Holocaust Center is continuing the work Tess Wise started
Dear Editor:
After reading articles in the recent edition of Heritage and past issues, as well as national press coverage of the Uprooting Prejudice exhibit at HMREC, I couldn’t help but realize that many of the people commenting and criticizing HMREC for hosting the exhibit, were not aware that from the very beginning of its existence, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center supported programming on two tracks in order to fulfill its mission. On one track, they successfully brought Holocaust education to the local schools, trained teachers and made the general public aware of the history and horror of the systematic targeting, torture and murder of millions of Jews in Europe. To this day they continue to fulfill that function of their mission through their programs. On the second track, they use the lessons gleaned from the Holocaust to try to prevent it from ever happening again to Jews or any other minority or ethnic group, by working to not only combat antisemitism, but also racism, ethnic cleansing, genocide, hate speech and more.