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Racial injustice exhibit opens at Orange County Holocaust Center Exhibits hopes to shine spotlight on faces of change A new exhibit opened on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day. It looks back at the faces of change in our country and features dozens of photographs taken in the days after George Floyd's death. ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida has opened a temporary exhibit up called "Uprooting Prejudice, Faces of Change." Portraits and quotes show the impact of racial injustice in our country. "I think it’s important," high school student Ethan...

VIEWPOINT - Does the new Holocaust Museum for Hope and Humanity stay true to its primary mission?   January 1, 2021 In the past month, no less than three opinion editorials were generated as a result of an article written by Christine DeSouza for the Dec. 4 edition of the Heritage Florida Jewish News. Her article was to highlight a particular exhibit by John Noltner, titled “Uprooting Prejudice: Faces of Change.” However, what DeSouza uncovered was the depth of conflicting feelings toward the appropriateness of the exhibit’s display within the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education ...

ORLANDO (RNS) — Comparing the magnitude of Shoah, the World War II extermination of European Jewry, to any other mass killings is always emotionally and intellectually fraught. The question is, are the lessons of the Holocaust unique to the Jewish people, or universal for humanity? Even the Roma, homosexuals and people with disabilities, who also died in the Nazi concentration camps, although in lesser numbers, are often relegated to a historical asterisk. Consider other grotesque mass killings in past centuries: Native Americans in the Western Hemisphere, Armenians, Ukrainians, Cambodians...

Viewpoint: Anti-Semites inside our Holocaust Center   December 18, 2020 The Uprooting Prejudice exhibit, at the Maitland Holocaust Center of Florida, is in part promoting the Black Lives Matter movement, which is irrefutably anti-Semitic and responsible for targeting synagogues and destroying Jewish-owned businesses during the George Floyd inspired riots. This exhibit, occupying the hallowed halls of our Holocaust Memorial Center has resulted in well-deserved negative national attention. The Aug. 28, 2020, Jerusalem Post reported, “On Wednesday night, the 93-year-old Los Angeles synagogue�...

12/15/2020 After an Online ‘Onslaught’ over Exhibit on Racial Justice, a Florida Holocaust Museum Vows Not to Back Down Breaking News In late November, the Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida sparked outrage when it opened its current exhibition, “Uprooting Prejudice: Faces of Change.” The bilingual exhibit, which runs through Jan. 31, consists of 45 large-format, black-and-white photo portraits. Chicago photographer John Noltner, a native of Minnesota, was inspired to take the shots in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing at and around the si...