The South
Carolina Council on the Holocaust was established to develop an educational program to prevent
future atrocities similar to the systematic program of genocide of six million Jews and others by
the Nazis. This program is designed to honor the survivors of the
Holocaust and their descendants
and the South Carolinians and their descendants who participated in the
liberation of the concentration camps. The Council plans annual observances of the Holocaust
and maintains a Holocaust Virtual Library as a
digital information resource.
Eastern European Travel/Study Tour on the Holocaust
This Travel/Study Tour is open to the general public with financial assistance offered to SC public school teachers. The Council’s mission is to encourage and support Holocaust education. Sun 30 June – Mon 8 July, 2013 9 Day Travel Program
April 8 – May 10, 2013
Richland County Public Library
1431 Assembly Street, Columbia, SC
An exhibition of great beauty and importance is coming to South Carolina in March and April 2013. It’s called Hélène Berr: A Stolen Life. Hélène Berr was a student of English at the Sorbonne, in Paris, when the Nazis invaded France. In 1942, at age 21, she began writing a journal describing a world that ostracized her for being a Jew. She wrote in her journal every day until March 1944 when she was deported to Auschwitz. Like her contemporary, Anne Frank, Berr died in Bergen-Belsen in 1945, days before the camp was liberated. Berr’s journal surfaced five years ago and instantly became a “classic” in France both for its exquisite language and the rare view of how French Jews perceived persecution during the German occupation.
Hélène Berr: A Stolen Life gives breath anew to the budding young scholar whose life was cut short in the Holocaust. Through texts and photographs, the exhibition, organized by Memorial de le Shoah, vividly portrays the life story of this accidental author and her stunning journal. This exhibition, curated by Karen Taïeb and Sophie Nagiscarde, was designed, created, and circulated by the Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris, France) and made possible through the generous support of the SNCF.
South Carolina
The South
Carolina Council on the Holocaust was established to develop an educational program to prevent
future atrocities similar to the systematic program of genocide of six million Jews and others by
the Nazis. This program is designed to honor the survivors of the
Holocaust and their descendants
and the South Carolinians and their descendants who participated in the
liberation of the concentration camps. The Council
plans annual observances of the Holocaust
and maintains a Holocaust Virtual Library as a
digital information resource. 
An exhibition of great beauty and importance is coming to South Carolina in March and April 2013. It’s called Hélène Berr: A Stolen Life. Hélène Berr was a student of English at the Sorbonne, in Paris, when the Nazis invaded France. In 1942, at age 21, she began writing a journal describing a world that ostracized her for being a Jew. She wrote in her journal every day until March 1944 when she was deported to Auschwitz. Like her contemporary, Anne Frank, Berr died in Bergen-Belsen in 1945, days before the camp was liberated. Berr’s journal surfaced five years ago and instantly became a “classic” in France both for its exquisite language and the rare view of how French Jews perceived persecution during the German occupation.