Holocaust Center of Northern California

The Holocaust Center of Northern California ( HCNC ) is a major regional Holocaust Center in San Francisco.

History

The National Socialist Workers' Party, opened in April 1977 a bookstore in San Francisco. According to newspaper reports, this facility was destroyed by 50 survivors of the concentration camps of Hitler. On this occasion, united Holocaust survivors and exiles of the Third Reich and founded, together with the Jewish Community Relations Council, the Committee of Remembrance. 1979 created the Committee the " Holocaust Library and Research Center ," a permanent institution for events, education and documentation relating to the Holocaust. 1986, it was renamed " Holocaust Center of Northern California".

Since 1 March 2001 Leslie Kane is the director of the institute. She worked initially as a lawyer and in marketing. For personal reasons, she moved in spite of a reduction in salary for HCNC. Among its board trying to learn about the Holocaust and discrimination issues in HCNC both children and adults.

The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service for several years working with the Holocaust Center and has so far made ​​three so-called Gedenkdienst available to the organization.

Tasks

The Holocaust Center of Northern California is dedicated to using education, documentation, research and recording of oral statements made by witnesses to the memory of the Holocaust. The Center makes the similarities of the Holocaust and discrimination and persecution of minorities in today's attention. This is intended to increase the awareness of people about the causes and consequences of racism, anti-Semitism and intolerance.