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Gutterman Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Honors Educators

Images: Hannah Levitt, Lisa Brown, Linda Medvin, Executive Director, Lisa Schuurmams, Arthur Gutterman

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̽����Ƶ’s Arthur and Emalie Gutterman Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education (CHHRE) recently hosted its annual Educator Awards Dinner at the Boca Raton Marriott at Boca Center. The dinner celebrated the exceptional work of K-12 teachers supported by the Gutterman Family CHHRE and honored the 2024 Gutterman Family Outstanding Holocaust Educators. The highly competitive award is funded by Arthur Gutterman, a benefactor whose generous contributions help sustain the Gutterman Family’s CHHRE’s community and professional learning programs.

This year’s award recipients from Broward County Public Schools were��Hannah Levitt, of McFatter Technical High School; and Lisa Schuurmans, an instructional specialist – Secondary Learning; and from the Palm Beach County School District,��Lisa Brown, of Lake Worth High School.

“We have the privilege of honoring three extraordinary educators who have made a significant impact in their schools and communities through their Holocaust education efforts,” said FAU President Adam Hasner. “We thank this year’s award recipients for their courage, leadership and dedication to ensuring that the lessons of the Holocaust remain alive, relevant and transformative.”

This was the 16th year of the award, which recognizes educators who have demonstrated a positive impact on their schools and the wider community within the field of Holocaust, genocide and human rights education. It honors individuals who actively, by their example and through teaching these difficult subjects, strengthen South Florida students’ world-citizenship and capacity to uphold the dignity of all people.

“Research has demonstrated that students who learn about the Holocaust in school demonstrate higher critical thinking skills, a greater sense of social responsibility, as well as civic engagement,” said Michael Horswell, Ph.D., dean of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. “Florida Atlantic is on a journey to become the nation’s leader in creating and assuring peace, justice and human rights for all. Holocaust education, with its concomitant fight against antisemitism and other forms of hate, will always be central to that mission.”

The CHHRE is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote respect for all people through the study of Holocaust, genocide and human rights, and is an integral unit of FAU’s Peace, Justice and Human Rights Initiative. The Center relies exclusively on private donations to provide professional learning programs and classroom resources for teachers and students, and community programs to support the mandated FL.ST 1003.42: Required Instruction of the Holocaust. Programs include professional learning for educators, Holocaust Summer Institute, and an annual trip to the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., as well as programs open to the community. The Gutterman Family CHHRE serves K-12 educators in public, private, charter, parochial and Jewish Day Schools throughout Broward, Palm Beach, St. Lucie, and Martin counties.

For more information, contact Linda Medvin at 561-297-2929 or�� lmedvin@fau.edu, or visit��

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