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Organization
The Organization
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It is managed by an Board of Directors and an Executive Committee, which are responsible for the organization's strategic orientations and policies.
In September 2008, the Centre adopted an ambitious three-year action plan. Priorities include:
- The protection of fragile objects in the Museum's permanent exhibition and the update of video equipment
- The recruitment of new guides and the development of a guide-training program
- The development of innovative pedagogical programs
- The promotion of the Hana's Suitcase educational project
- The creation and implementation of pre and post-Museum visit educational tools to be used in class
- The promotion of Holocaust education in schools.
The Executive Committee and the Board of Directors
Organizational Structure
Members of these governing bodies are elected for a two-year mandate.The Executive Committee oversees operations.
The Centre also benefits from:
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- A full-time Gedenkdiener (Austrian civil service) each year
- Expert counsel (university professors, lawyers, etc.)
- The help of 135 volunteers. The work of our volunteers, on an annual basis, is equivalent to about 7 full-time staff positions
- The work of committees, which are chaired by volunteers and supported by the staff: Museum, Remembrance, Finance, Docent, Education, and Holocaust Survivor Speaker committees.
Volunteers and the Centre's staff are guided by the values of the organization: compassion, integrity, cooperation and fairness.
Members of the Board of Directors
| Ronit Amsel | |
| Batia Bettman | |
| Ted Bolgar | |
| Susyn Borer* | President |
| Stephen Coplan | |
| Jack Dym* | Officer |
| Carl Frymel |
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| Samara Goldstein |
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| Thomas Hecht | |
| Lily Ivanier* | Honorary Vice-President |
| Morris Jacobsen* | Treasurer |
| Sylvia Kertesz |
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| Elliot Lifson |
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| Yehudi Lindeman |
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| Nancy Maklan | |
| Helen Malkin* | Secretary |
| Larry Nachshen* | First Vice-President |
| Judith Nemes Black* | Officer (Rememberance Committee) |
| Alice Raby* | Officer |
| Julia Reitman* | Immediate Past-President |
| Marcia Shuster |
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| Ethel Smith |
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| Akos Verboczy | |
| Leslie Vertes | |
| Alice Herscovitch* | Executive Director |
* Member of the Executive Committee