Rachel Oestreicher Bernheim Awarded the Royal Polar Star

A clipping from Nordstjernan - America’s oldest weekly Swedish newspaper, founded in 1872. Read on to download the PDF file...

 New Newsletter!

Read the latest news about the HEROES program from The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States in our news letter... read on to download the PDF file.

 An Interview with Kathleen Dunlevy Morin

An Interview with Kathleen Dunlevy Morin: Distinguished Award Winner from Teachers College, Columbia University - Monday, March 13, 2006 - At a gala awards dinner at Columbia University on November 14, 2005, Arthur E. Levine, President of Teachers College, presented Dr. Kathleen Dunlevy Morin with the College's 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award citing her development, spanning several decades, of "insightful, creative, effective curricula" on a wide range of topics, for a diversity of populations, organizations, and educational venues.

 Common Knowledge: TEACHING ABOUT HEROES

CORE Knowledge adds HEROES to its resource list, as featured in THE NEWSLETTER OF THE CORE KNOWLEDGE(r) FOUNDATION, Volumn 18, Number 2, May 2005.

 Behind Bars, Lessons From Wallenberg

Inmates at a New Jersey prison are learning how circumstances turn ordinary people into heroes.

 A Memorial Tribute To Thomas Veres

Thomas Veres was twenty years old when he met Raoul Wallenberg in the Swedish legation in Budapest. Tom’s father, Paul Veres, was the top society photographer in Hungary, and young Tom was a photographer, too. Wallenberg, with his ability to use everyone’s best talents, immediately assigned Tom to be his “personal photographer.”

 N.J. correctional administrators inspire workforce, inmates

At the New Jersey Department of Corrections, educators, corrections officers and administrators have been asked to focus on one process when dealing with inmates: Habilitation.

 Commissioner Brown’s Speech

Commissioner Brown’s Speech Before The New Jersey Character Education Training March 19, 2003

 Wallenberg Committee Offers Learning Experience to NJDOC Educators

The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States provided two one-day training sessions of its character education program for staff members at the New Jersey Department of Corrections.

 Taking a Closer Look at Heroes

TC alumna Kathleen Morin was working as a consultant to several not-for-profit organizations in 1990 when she was enlisted to help develop and launch a new classroom education program for The Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States. "The theme was 'heroes,'" says Morin. But who was Raoul Wallenberg? "I had no idea," she recalls. "I'd never heard of him."

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