SKS Holocaust Education Foundation Grant Application is sponsored by Selden K. Smith Holocaust Education Foundation. The SKS Holocaust Education Foundation provides grant funding for Holocaust educational projects and teacher training within South Carolina.

Selden K. Smith Holocaust Education Foundation Title of a longer featured hef post Multiple lines of text that form the lede, informing new readers quickly and efficiently about what’s most interesting in this post’s contents. On November 19, 2021, South Carolina lost another Holocaust survivor, Abe Stern, age 92, of Sumter, SC.

Abe was born April 16, 1929 in Lodz, Poland. His family was forced into the Ghetto there and as the war progressed, he was in various concentration camps under horrific conditions as a slave laborer. In 1946 he was able to immigrate to the US and in 1948 he joined the Air Force and was stationed at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter.

There Abe met and married Rhea Edelsburg. Mr. Stern was the only Holocaust survivor to make Sumter home after the war. His Holocaust experience is presented at the Sumter County Museum Jewish History Center at Temple Sinai.

Mr. Stern was devoted to his family and community and his presence will be greatly missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. Please learn more about Abe Stern's story of survival and his life in Sumter at these links.

Columbia Holocaust Education Commission Abe Stern Exhibit The Selden K. Smith Holocaust Education Foundation is again participating in Your contribution can make a difference! The SKS Foundation provides grant funding statewide for projects related to teaching the Holocaust.

This work is vital in today's society, especially with hate crimes on the rise. Projects that SKS support include teacher training, classroom resources, field trips, speakers, traveling exhibits, Holocaust Remembered newspaper supplements and community events. If you're thinking of giving this year, please think of us and help the Foundation promote tolerance and justice throughout the state.

Midlands Gives donations can be made anytime April 1st - May 5th To donate online please visit: https://www. midlandsgives. org/holocausteducationfoundation Donations can also be mailed to: You can also use the following QR Code to donate Midlands Gives is an online community fundraising event for non-profits.

For more information visit https://midlandsgives. org Everyone can be a philanthropist! Your continued support and generosity is greatly appreciated!

Thank You to all our donors during our annual Midlands Gives campaign April 1-May 6, 2025. Your contributions enable us to provide grants for school and community Holocaust educational projects and teacher trainings in South Carolina. Because of your support, the Foundation is able to award funding for: classroom supplies, student field trips, speakers, traveling exhibits, teacher workshops and study programs, community events and more.

Your generosity is greatly appreciated! Thank You for sharing our vision and joining our mission! If you missed our campaign, you can still donate via this link ( https://www.

midlandsgives. org/holocausteducationfoundation ) or on our "Donate" tab Living Holocaust Memorial Garden Students from the Holocaust & Genocide Studies course at West Ashley High School planted 250 daffodil bulbs in their daffodil memorial garden this past October. The memorial garden is part of the Daffodil Project, which aims to build a worldwide Living Holocaust Memorial by planting 1.

5 million daffodils in memory of the children who perished in the Holocaust and in support of children suffering in humanitarian crises in the world today. This year's class will prep, plant, and tend to the garden. When the daffodils bloom in the spring, the class will have a local guest speaker from the Charleston Jewish Federation help commemorate the garden.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum Field Trip In March 2024 the St Joseph's Catholic School in Greenville took a field trip to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC. Below you can find some of the students reflections from the trip as well as a couple of photos from their visit. CLICK HERE to read the student's reflections.

The Selden K. Smith Holocaust Collection Richland Library welcomes items from the personal Holocaust collection of Dr. Selden K. Smith.

Housed primarily at Richland Library Main, the collection features over 250 items including biographies, histories, religious texts, and even cookbooks. Click here for more information The Selden K. Smith Holocaust Education Foundation would like to thank all our donors for their generosity and continued support during our 2023 Midlands Gives Fundraiser.

Your dollars support classroom resources, field trips, speakers, exhibits, teacher training, community events, and more. By teaching the lessons of the Holocaust, we strive to make our community and our world a more just, compassionate and tolerant society. We truly appreciate your sharing our vision and joining in our mission.

If you missed our campaign, you can still donate via this link ( https://www. midlandsgives. org/holocausteducationfoundation ) or on our "donate tab" SKS Holocaust Education Foundation Grant Application The SKS Holocaust Education Foundation provides grant funding for Holocaust educational projects and teacher training within South Carolina.

Grants are awarded to teachers, schools, universities and organizations. Projects funded include classroom books, student field trips, teacher training and workshops, Holocaust speakers, films, exhibits and other related Holocaust educational programs To apply for a grant, please fill out the grant form provided HERE .

SCCH Educators of Excellence The South Carolina Council on the Holocaust seeks to honor outstanding K-12 educators in the state for their dedication to Holocaust and human rights education. Teachers who are recognized with this award display a passion for educating students in the meaningful lessons of the Holocaust that positively impacts students well beyond their time in the classroom.

Eligibility and the nomination instructions can be found by visiting the South Carolina Council on the Bluma Goldberg and Marie Gross The Columbia, South Carolina community mourns the loss of two Holocaust survivors, Bluma Goldberg and Marie Gross, who left us on January 21, 2021. Both of these incredible women will be greatly missed by their family, friends and community.

As time continues to pass, so do people's memories and understanding of the Holocaust. This Foundation will continue to honor their memory by keeping the events of the Holocaust and its meaningful lessons alive in the classrooms and communities of South Carolina.

We are dedicated to educate the youth in our state about these events and to teach them to become citizens who raise awareness and opposition to hate and discrimination of all kinds. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Goldberg and Gross families. Please learn more about their stories of strength, courage, and love by reading their obituaries and archived history with the provided links.

May their lives be an inspiration to others. As chair of the Foundation, I personally am proud to have married into Bluma Goldberg's family. My mother-in-law, Cela Miller, was her sister.

Together they survived the hatred inflicted upon them for just being Jewish. Bluma was our family matriarch for many years and our last physical link to our family's Holocaust history. A beautiful woman who bestowed upon her family much love.

Along with their husbands, Felix and David, both couples immigrated to Columbia in 1949 sponsored by the local Jewish community. The couples became close friends with Dr. Selden Smith and he encouraged them to share their story with students, teachers and the community. Their video testimonies can be viewed by clicking the survivor/liberator link on this website.

Dr. Marie Gross moved to Columbia in 2004 to be close to family. Her story of surviving under false identification is amazing. A very accomplished woman who after the war earned both a dental and medical degree.

I fondly remember Mrs. Gross's smiling face at senior socials she enjoyed attending. Am honored to have Surviving With False Identities Selden K Smith Holocaust Education Foundation is listed on AmazonSmile. You can also click HERE to directly access AmazonSmile.

Our community mourns the passing of Dr. Selden Smith It is with much sadness and a heavy heart that I share the news of the passing of Dr. Selden K. Smith on February 12, 2018 at the age of 88. Dr. Smith devoted much of his life to justice, tolerance and combatting hatred.

He was truly the "father" of Holocaust Education in South Carolina. His tireless efforts to teach the lessons of the Holocaust have been an inspiration to many and his mentorship and guidance has influenced others to follow in his footsteps. Read how Selden Smith tansformed Holocaust education in the Midlands