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Pictured: Barbara Goldsten at WFSU
Listen: Week of November 29, 2018
Transcript
What inspires you from WFSU Public Media? Here's this week's Voices That Inspire. I'm Barbara Goldstein, and I'm the Executive Director at the Holocaust Education Resource Council. We're doing strong outreach to the schools in the district with helping the middle and high schools have a better understanding of respecting everybody and helping the school move forward and doing really important projects to learn about courage and compassion and being better citizens in the world today in their schools and in the community. About 10 years ago, a teacher at Lincoln High School and I were talking and she was teaching the book Night by L.A.Y. Zell and talked her how passionate she was and but she said there's nobody that helped us. This is really important. I started helping her. And my parents, a Holocaust survivor, so I had a personal connection and reached out to many other people and we just slowly got a good support system and we moved forward with creating our education programs and we've been now moving this on to 10 years. Today is so complicated in the world and I think the people are so overwhelmed. Let's look at who we are and what we should be doing and be better at it and that's what my goal is. And especially with the students in the schools that they really have become better understanding people, just learning about who we are and they were all the same. We all want to be treated nice and equally and through some understanding that the students have become better about that. Last year we did a program at Charles High School for a whole week. Those students have been changed since that day when they met the Holocaust survivor, they learned about it and they realized that this really happened. We're very proud that we have a partnership developed at Tallahassee Community College and we're creating a resource and education center for Holocaust and Human Rights and that's our next big phase to move into the year and I'm very excited about that. I'm Barbara Goldstein, I'm the Executive Director at the Holocaust Education Resource Council. You're listening to voices that inspire.
Barbara Goldstein - Becoming Better at Understanding
Barbara Goldstein is the executive director for the Holocaust Education Resource Council. Barbara and the council work to bring programs to middle and high schools that aid students in learning about the Holocaust along with building an understanding of respecting one another and being better citizens in the world we live in today.