History of the Holocaust

Th e Florida Holocaust Museum’s Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust began in 1994 after the State of Florida mandate on Holocaust education was passed in Senate Bill 660 as Florida Statute 233.061. Teaching about the Holocaust in grades K-12 is a part of required instruction.

Pardoll Family Lecture Series

Mark Hanis
Founder and Executive Director
Genocide Intervention Network
Grandchild of four Holocaust survivors

Human Rights and Genocide Studies

Summer Institute on the Holocaust. This is a five-day seminar that challenges the learner to investigate episodes of man’s inhumanity to one another through a study of other genocides that have occurred around the globe. This seminar may investigate Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, as well as examine human rights violations exemplifi ed by the United States, the Japanese Internment, South Africa and others. Th ere are evening sessions.