(Glen Cove, NY) – In conjunction with the Nassau and Suffolk County Police Departments, the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) awarded two $2,500 Friedlander Upstander Award education scholarships at the Annual Tolerance Benefit and Auction on May, 1, 2013. Representatives of the Claire Friedlander Family Foundation and the HMTC presented the awards to Caitlin Calico and Katelyn Maher.
(L to R) Steven Markowitz, HMTC Chairman; Irene Klein, Claire Friedlander Family Foundation Vice President; Katelyn Maher, 2013 Suffolk County Friedlander Upstander Award Recipient; Caitlin Calico, 2013 Nassau County Friedlander Upstander Award Recipient; Peter Klein, Claire Friedlander Family Foundation President; Adam Gottleib, Claire Friedlander Family Foundation Secretary
“The centerpiece of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center is to teach youth how the lessons of the Holocaust can be applied today and to their own lives,” according to Steven Markowitz, HMTC Chairman. “The Friedlander Upstander Awards reinforces our underlying message that each of us can make a difference in our community. The 2013 recipients exemplify this principal through their daily actions.”
Selected for their actions on behalf of other students as agents of change and tolerance, the Friedlander Upstander Awards are generously sponsored by the Claire Friedlander Family Foundation. “The Claire Friedlander Family Foundation is proud to support, with the professional guidance of our partner, the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center, young Upstanders who make the often difficult decision to extinguish the flames of intolerance wherever they may burn,” said Peter Klein, Claire Friedlander Family Foundation President.
Additional information about the 2013 Friedlander Upstander Award winners can be located at: www.holocaust-nassau.org/education/students
About the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County
The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County is the pre-eminent Holocaust resource on Long Island, with a contemporary museum and is one of the largest and most comprehensive education program providers in the region. Since 2007, nearly 210,000 students, educators, employers and law enforcement personnel have participated in the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center’s education programs.
Under construction and scheduled to open in late 2013, the Claire Friedlander Education Institute will accommodate four classrooms with state-of-the-art audio-visual aids and cutting edge technical equipment for specialized Holocaust video-conferencing programs and a wide variety of workshops for youth and adults.
With the Louis Posner Memorial Library, the Center offers over 7,000 volumes of Holocaust, genocide, multicultural, anti-bias and anti-bullying material for youth and adults, from Kindergarten through post-graduate researchers. It is the largest such collection on Long Island. Additional information is available online at: www.holocaust-nassau.org
