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Remembering a tragedy: Survivors tour the new Southwest Florida Holocaust museum

By Joan Hogan / November 13, 2019 / Comments Off on Remembering a tragedy: Survivors tour the new Southwest Florida Holocaust museum

Thaddeus Mast, Naples Daily News The famed photo of a smiling Anne Frank greets visitors to the newly opened Holocaust Museum and Cohen Education Center of Southwest Florida. A cursory look shows that thousands of photos create a collage of the young Holocaust victim. Pictures from local survivors and liberators are tucked away in the […]

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Naples Daily News Photo Gallery of Grand Opening

By Joan Hogan / November 12, 2019 / Comments Off on Naples Daily News Photo Gallery of Grand Opening

The Naples Daily News has posted photos from the grand opening of Holocaust Museum and Cohen Education Center. Click here to view the photo gallery.

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Holocaust Museum in North Naples holds ceremony for new location

By Joan Hogan / November 12, 2019 / Comments Off on Holocaust Museum in North Naples holds ceremony for new location

It was a day of remembrance for community members, as the new location that will keep the history of the Holocaust in Southwest Florida was officially exhibited. The Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center in North Naples held a ceremony for its new location at 975 Imperial Golf Course Blvd., Suite 108 in North Naples […]

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Sharing the important lessons of the Holocaust

By Joan Hogan / November 1, 2019 / Comments Off on Sharing the important lessons of the Holocaust

By D. K. Christi, Spotlight News Magazine A grand opening on November 10 will celebrate the new facilities designed by Corban Architecture at the recently opened Holocaust Museum and Cohen Education Center at 975 Imperial Golf Course Blvd. in Naples. A unique experience starts at the entrance with a larger-than- life Anne Frank photomosaic that […]

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Naples Ukrainians Recall Holodomor

By Joan Hogan / October 19, 2019 / Comments Off on Naples Ukrainians Recall Holodomor

A generation vanishes: Naples Ukrainians illuminate the history of their genocide Harriet Howard Heithaus, Naples Daily News Natalie Santarsiero has no photos of her mother as a child in her native Ukraine. No pictures of the fertile farmland her grandfather once plowed. No solemn, wide-eyed family portraits next to a frame house. No sepia images […]

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Naples’ Holocaust Museum reopens in new facility

By Joan Hogan / October 10, 2019 / Comments Off on Naples’ Holocaust Museum reopens in new facility

The Holocaust Museum & Janet G. and Harvey D. Cohen Education Center recently announced its reopening following its summer move to a new location, 975 Imperial Golf Course Blvd., Suite 108, Naples. Its previous site closed in June to allow staff and volunteers time to pack and relocate the museum’s collection of more than 1,000 […]

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Museum of the unimaginable in a place you wouldn’t imagine

By Joan Hogan / August 30, 2019 / Comments Off on Museum of the unimaginable in a place you wouldn’t imagine

By NEIL SILVER You might question my idea of “fun” when I’m on holiday, but nothing beats taking my kids to visit a Holocaust museum wherever I am in the world. It’s been easy to enrich my children’s education in big cities such as New York, Washington and San Francisco, so I was very pleasantly […]

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Southwest Florida’s Holocaust museum to open soon in its first true home

By Joan Hogan / August 4, 2019 / Comments Off on Southwest Florida’s Holocaust museum to open soon in its first true home

Photos: Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center of Southwest Florida gets a new home Click here to view the photo gallery.

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day event at the Museum

By Joan Hogan / February 5, 2019 / Comments Off on International Holocaust Remembrance Day event at the Museum

On January 27, the Museum hosted a lecture and musical performance to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Museum Docent Ellaine Rosen presented “Witness to Goodness” presentation Holocaust heroes, which was followed by a moving performance by Jack Solomon on the restored Violins of Hope Project Klezmer violin on special loan to the Museum. The Museum […]

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Violins of Hope project brings reminder of Holocaust to Southwest Florida

By Joan Hogan / January 11, 2019 / Comments Off on Violins of Hope project brings reminder of Holocaust to Southwest Florida

By Sean Martinelli NAPLES, Fla. – Violins recovered from concentration camps during the Holocaust are on display for the public at the Naples Holocaust Museum and Education Center. The instruments are part of the “Violins of Hope” project and were played during the museum’s December luncheon. “Music brought hope,” the project’s founder Avshi Weinstein said. […]

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