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One Soul: Holocaust Education Exhibit
Our One Soul: Holocaust Education Exhibit will work in many ways.

Our One Soul: Holocaust Education Exhibit will work in many ways.
The One Soul: Holocaust Education Exhibit is an ambitious long-term project that will reinvigorate the manner in which Holocaust studies are taught. The One Soul Initiative seeks to analyze the tragic events of the Holocaust as a catastrophic epoch in history from which positive life lessons can be learned. One Soul is based on the ideals that each person’s contribution and good work affect the whole and that positive actions today are essential to encourage an attitude towards humanity which could counter the horrors of the Holocaust. The Holocaustprovides multifaceted lessons and inspiration for social action and deeper awareness of the value of the individual within the community. Based on Jewish principles, One Soul will emphasize personal service and volunteering as an individual or with one’s community for the benefit of society.

...to educate and inspire viewers
with the ultimate goal of motivating
audiences to actions that promote
tolerance and human dignity.One Soul exhibits and accompanying toolboxes seek to educate and inspire viewers with the ultimate goal of motivating audiences to actions that promote tolerance and human dignity
in every arena of human activity – including war.

Currently, The Afikim Foundation is spearheading two national aspects of this Initiative:

• A collaboration with the United States Department of Defense and the Center for Military History in Washington, D.C. We are gratified by the participation and programmatic support of The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.
• A collaboration with Yad Vashem’s Educational Center in Jerusalem, Israel, to further the scope of our exhibits, toolboxes and curricula for general audiences in public and private school, community
  centers and houses of worship.

United States Department of Defense
In a partnership with the United States Department of Defense and the Center for Military History, The Afikim Foundation will foment exhibits about the Holocaust for placement in army base museums. The purpose of these exhibitions is to imbue members of the armed forces with a sense of pride and dignity about its past and present endeavors to protect individuals, families, communities, cultures, ethnicities and nations from the abuses of those who aim to violate their inalienable human rights.

The Afikim Foundation is working with the renowned design firm Chicken&Egg, along with an expert on military history from the Intrepid Museum in New York, to develop these exhibitions. Focusing on the liberation of the death camps at the culmination of World War II, the exhibit will explore the personal and collective experiences of the American liberators who unconsciously stumbled upon these camps and dramatically changed the lives of their inhabitants while also being touched by the survivors themselves.

The opening for this exhibition is slated to be held in July 2006 with the inaugural event perhapshosted at the Pentagon in Washington D.C. The exhibit will be replicated so that it will be shown at a minimum of 16 army base museums across the country.

General Public
The One Soul: Holocaust Education Exhibit will fill the growing schism that is arising between the dying generation of survivors and the new generation of youth that is struggling to comprehend the depths of evil that abounded in the Holocaust. While Holocaust education has certainly grown in importance, the method by which it is taught focuses on the death and destruction without teaching students (of any age) about the lessons that can be learned and how their emotional and intellectual responses can be channeled into constructive action and awareness. ... emotional and intellectual responses
can be channeled into constructive
action and awareness.

The exhibition will be a free standing model that will depict an overview of the concepts to be studied in depth through the tool-kit. It will be a visually inspirational structure and framework that will augment and serve as a reference point for the accompanying curricula. The exhibit may be designed as panels that will include maps, texts, photos and a video component. We are currently investigating a three dimensional modular system that can contain objects as well as mount texts and pictures. This system provides versatility for different settings and is easily maintained and reused in ensuing years.

The tool-kit accompanying the exhibition will be geared towards educating and inspiring students, families, individuals and communities to be aware of intolerance and ethnocentrism and their consequences. Participants will be encouraged to follow up on the message learned by working together to the benefit of their communities.

We are deeply appreciative of the ongoing support and encouragement of Rabbi Marvin Hier, Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Rabbi Hier and his associates have consistently made themselves available to us. Rabbi Hier’s sage counsel continues to inspire the development of many of the One Soul components.

This presentation will be available in the following locations:
Chemical Corps Museum (Ft. Leonard Wood, MO): Sep 06 – Dec 06
45th Infantry Division Museum (OK City, OK): Sep 06 – Feb 07
Patton Museum (Ft. Knox, KY): Sep 06 – indefinite
National Infantry Museum (Ft. Benning, GA): Oct 06 – indefinite
West Point Museum (West Point, NY): Nov 06 – Jan 07
Maryland National Guard Museum (Baltimore, MD): Jan 07 – Mar 07
1st Armored Division Museum (Baumholder, Germany): Jan 07 – indefinite
Army Heritage Center (Carlisle, PA): Jan 07 – Sep 07
Macomb Community College: (Clinton Township, MI): Feb 07 – Mar 07
(arranged through TACOM, Warren, MI)
4th Infantry Division Museum: (Ft. Hood, TX) Feb 07 – Mar 07
Texas National Guard (Austin, TX): Mar 07 – June 07
Don F. Pratt Museum (Ft. Campbell, KY): Apr 07 – Jul 07
Ft. Huachuca (Ft. Huachuca, AZ): Apr 07
Airborne and Special Ops Museum (Fayetteville, NV): May 07 – Oct 07
Ft. Bliss (El Paso, TX): May 07
Ft. Meade (Ft. Meade, MD): TBD

For more information on One Soul and how it can be brought to your community, click here or contact Aliza Weinstein at 212.791.7450 or Aliza@afikimfoundation.org.