Programming

Leadership Institute With Teens (LIFT) Grades 9-12: Click Below for 2025-2026 School Year Application

Participants learn the important lessons genocides and human rights issues. This program will build a safe space for students to explore dark parts of history while developing the skills to articulate their opinions on pressing social issues.

Adult Education Program

A large group of adults and a few children are seated in a conference room. They are arranged around several round tables, listening attentively to someone who is out of frame.

Our Adult Education Program offers lectures, film screenings, and community discussions led by scholars, survivors, and guest speakers. These free public programs explore the Holocaust, genocide, antisemitism, and human rights while connecting past lessons to today’s challenges.

Registration for the 2025–2026 series is now open. Join us for a year of meaningful learning, reflection, and dialogue.

Art & Writing Contest Grades 6-12: Beyond Silence: Stories that Endure

Our annual Art and Writing Contest encourages middle and high school students to engage creatively with lessons from the Holocaust.

Baxt Lecture Series: December 7, Professor James E. Young

The annual Baxt Lecture Series was created in 2013 to provide comprehensive Holocaust education to the greater Rhode Island community. Previous topics have included FDR & the Jews, History of Antisemitism, Berlin after the Holocaust & more.

Harold A. Winstead (HAW) Youth Interactive Program Holocaust Education for Middle and High School Students

Kristallnacht: Lecture

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A lecture flyer for an event titled "Kristallnacht Lecture." The top half of the flyer features a black and white historical photograph of two men looking at a shattered storefront of a Jewish-owned shop in Berlin, Germany, during Kristallnacht in November 1938. The title is superimposed over the image. The bottom left of the flyer has a block of text inviting people to join Dr. Michael Bryant, a professor at Bryant University, as he examines how Hitler used both law and violence to shape Nazi anti-Jewish policy, which culminated in the Kristallnacht pogrom. A QR code is shown with a note that says "RSVP Requested." The bottom right of the flyer lists the event details: Sunday, November 9, 2025, at 7:00 pm at the Dwares JCC in Providence, RI. Below that, the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center is listed as the host. The very bottom of the flyer includes the center's website, email, and phone number.