Miami, Florida
"The Holocaust in Southern Europe"

Funded by:

• National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S. Government)
• Anti-Defamation League
• American Jewish Committee
• American Jewish Congress/Southeast Region
• Consulate General of Italy
• The National Italian American Foundation

Along with a tour of the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach, a conference was held at the Doral Ocean Beach Resort. In addition to accounts by historian, Dr. Paul Bookbinder of the University of Massachusetts, survivor Sabina Heliczer introduced her book On the Run Italia. Community leaders including the American Jewish Congress and Dade County Public Schools' Holocaust educator spoke of the necessity of adding the history of Italy during the Holocaust and moral lessons to the school curriculum. The Mayor of Bal Harbour issued a Proclamation to Dr. Maria Lombardo on behalf of NIAF's and the National Endowment's work on this subject.