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 […]
Read MoreThe Naples Daily News has posted photos from the grand opening of Holocaust Museum and Cohen Education Center. Click here to view the photo gallery.
Read MoreIt 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 […]
Read MoreBy 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 […]
Read MoreA 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 […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreBy 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 […]
Read MorePhotos: Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center of Southwest Florida gets a new home Click here to view the photo gallery.
Read MoreOn 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 […]
Read MoreBy 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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