Tennessee Holocaust Commission Inc

Community Events - The Commission plans and hosts a variety of community events around the state and virtually. These include Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance) events, Survivor speakers, Library programming, and various educational webinars that are open to the public. These programs are either requested by an outside entity or created by staff and put on in locations and manners to provide Holocaust education to the community at large.

Education Outreach Programs - These programs serve teachers and students in public, private, home-school, and parochial settings throughout the state. These programs include annual conferences in the three grand divisions of the state. These conferences are designed to introduce teachers and students to in-depth study on research focused topics regarding the Holocaust. Conferences include sessions with survivors who were eyewitnesses to this crisis in history or their children as well as training from staff historian or other experts in the field. These programs typically are requested by an outside educational entity. During 2025, the program supported 25 educators on an educational 8 day tour of Poland that included visiting Auschwitz, Treblinka and both Warsaw and Krakow Ghettos.

Teacher Resources and Lending Library - This education program provides classrooms with multimedia tools, including books, first-person testimonies, videos, maps, lesson plans, student activities, and reference materials about the Holocaust to public school systems as well as private schools and colleges in Tennessee. Upon request from the schools, resources and materials are loaned and shipped to the schools at no expense to the schools.

Belz-Lipman Award - This is an annual award presented to teacher participants in each of the three grand divisions of the state for excellence in teaching about the Holocaust.