Dr. Marlene Warshawski Yahalom

Director of Education

In 2007 the HHREC was pleased to welcome Dr. Marlene Warshawski Yahalom as our new Director of Education. Dr. Yahalom had most recently been the Director of Education for the American Society for Yad Vashem.

Dr. Yahalom will be providing vision and leadership for the Center's educational programs, products, and services and defining long-range educational goals, strategies and priorities. "The lessons of the Holocaust are a way to start appreciating the value of Human Rights," said Dr. Yahalom. "The Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center gives further credence to studying the Holocaust and bringing it to a higher level of awareness by incorporating Human Rights to its mission. I look forward to raising that awareness through creative educational programs about this increasingly important cause and topic."

Dr. Yahalom earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in Sociology. She wrote her thesis on "The Role of Archives in Remembering the Holocaust: a Study in Collective Memory." She also received her M.A. and her M.Phil. in Sociology from Columbia. She graduated from Queens College with a B.A. in Sociology, and is a child and grandchild of Holocaust survivors.

Dr. Yahalom also serves on the Education Advisory Board of the Rose and Sigmund Strochlitz Holocaust Resource Center, Jewish Federation of Southeastern Connecticut and on the Education Advisory Board of Project P.A.T.C.H. Constitutional Law Program of New York State. She has been an Adjunct Lecturer on Sociology at Vassar College, Touro College, and Essex County College.