The Jeff Leibovitz Special Collection Fund
The goals of the Jeff Leibovitz Special Collection of Holocaust Education Materials Fund are to:
Provide print and audio-visual materials suitable for K-8 classrooms through the WIU Elementary Education Curriculum Collection and River Bend Library System;
Provide materials to assist schools in developing K-8 curriculum in the area of Holocaust studies;
Assist in sponsoring professional development workshops and seminars in Holocaust studies;
Help carry out the Illinois Legislative mandate that a unit of instruction about the Holocaust be included in every public school curriculum; and
Help establish a repository for the oral and written records of Holocaust survivors and liberators.
We invite you to share in our efforts to honor Jeff Leibovitz, a young man whose untimely death prevented him from finishing his successful student teaching experience, by educating future generations about the Holocaust. As the years pass and the number of living Holocaust survivors dwindles, it becomes even more important to pass on the lessons of that period in history. We hope you will join us in ensuring that we remember never to forget.