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LEGISLATION

Legislation recommending genocide education:

Bill number: Substitute Bill No. 5443
Title: An Act Concerning Humane Education
Put into effect: October 1, 2006
Co-sponsored by: Rep. Diana S. Urban, 43rd Dist. and Sen. Edith G. Prague, 19th Dist.
Legislation:
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: Section 1. Subsection (d) of section 10-16b of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2006): (d) The State Board of Education shall make available curriculum materials and such other materials as may assist local and regional boards of education in developing instructional programs pursuant to this section. The State Board of Education, within available appropriations and utilizing available resource materials, shall assist and encourage local and regional boards of education to include: (1) Holocaust education and awareness.”

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Bill Number: SB-126 (Public Act 95-101)
Year: 1995
Title: An Act Concerning Holocaust Education
Co-sponsors: Senator Kevin Sullivan, 5th Dist. and Rep. Howard Scipio, 93rd Dist
Legislation:
“The state board of education, within available appropriations and utilizing available resource materials, shall assist and encourage local and regional boards of education to include Holocaust Education and Awareness as part of the program of instruction offered pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.”

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ACADEMIC STANDARDS

The Connecticut Framework K-12 Curricular Goals and Standards- Language Arts (1998):

Content Standard 1: Reading and Responding:
- interact with others in creating, interpreting and evaluating written, oral and visual
texts.
Grade 9-12: Students will apply collaborative skills to elaborate on concepts being addressed and to describe processes used in achieving results.
Example: Students meet with their research team to share their findings on the causes of the Holocaust and to describe the process they went through to reach their conclusions.

Content Standard 4: Exploring and Responding to Texts
- explore and respond to contemporary literature:
Grade 5-8: Students will read, view and listen to current works appropriate for their age level, then discuss the issues raised.
Example: Students keep and exchange journals in which, in preparation for reading The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank, they respond to articles written for the 50th anniversary of the Holocaust.

These standards are optional in Connecticut.
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STATE RESOURCES

The Strochlitz Foundation
475 Broad Street
New London, CT 06320
Phone: 860.443.8989
Contact: Romana Strochlitz Primus
E-mail: Rprimus@alumni.brown.edu

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
P.O. Box 208240 - Sterling Memorial Library
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Contact: Joanne Weiner Rudof
Phone: 203.432.1879
E-mail: fortunoff.archive@yale.edu
URL: http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies

The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies is a collection of over 4,300 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust. Part of Yale University’s department of Manuscripts and Archives, the archive is located at Sterling Memorial Library.

Holocaust Child Survivors of Connecticut
20 Tubbs Spring Court
Weston, CT 06883
Phone: 203.226.3092
Contact: Agnes Vertes
E-mail: amvertes@optonline.net

We are the Jewish Children who survived Hitler’s killing machines. Our group is indispensable in helping us deal with our loss and our pain. We also come together to celebrate our Existence and our Survival. We are involved in teaching about the Holocaust to schools and interested groups. It is our firm conviction that our story must be told so that it will never be repeated.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Connecticut State Department of Education
165 Capitol Avenue
P.O. Box 2219
Hartford, CT 06145
Phone: 860.713.6543
URL: http://www.state.ct.us/sde/index.html