Lessons Learned by Maxine Cohen

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Lessons Learned

On Aug. 1, 2010, Maxine Cohen retired as Director of the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio. Maxine served as the museum’s director for just over a decade, but few people know that the program as we know it today was sparked by a phone call 35 years ago. That call would start Maxine and a small group of volunteers on a pioneering journey, creating arguably the first Holocaust education program in the country.

We asked Maxine about the program’s early years, its evolution and its important impact on our broader community.

From the Jewish Journal of San Antonio, August 2010

by Maxine Cohen

Humble Beginnings

My involvement with the education part of the our program began in 1975 when an administrator from the Northeast Independent School District called the Jewish Federation to ask us to supply a educational unit to the schools. Three of us, Paula Kaufman, Phyllis Braverman and I, began to make presentations in the schools that year. The program grew and became very popular with teachers in almost every school district in the area. At the time, school textbooks covered very little about the Holocaust so we were really pioneering an educational module, probably among the first in the country. Later, we involved survivors in our presentations. The Community Relations Council administered the program but it was essentially a volunteer program.

I was not on the Federation staff until 1986 when I became the Director of the Community Relations Council. The Holocaust educational program continued to operate with a staff of volunteers who visited the schools. In the late 1980s, a group of local Holocaust survivors asked the Federation to create a memorial to honor the families they lost. It was established in the old Federation office. In 2000, I retired as director of the CRC and became the director of the Memorial Museum which, as you know, is part of the new campus. A new program was established. We did not discontinue going out to schools, but we put greater emphasis on their coming to the museum. Docents were trained to provide guided tours and a few survivors continue(d) to meet with students both in the museum and in the schools. Over the years, the number of students we reached increased (between 8- and 10-thousand annually) and we began to serve schools in outlying communities.

Making a Difference

I have two passions. One is the continuity of the Jewish community. The second is the hope that somehow we human beings can learn from history. The people who planned and committed the Holocaust were not monsters. They were normal people who, out of hope for a better life, willingly supported a radical leader whose ideology was based on hate and power. They did not start out intending to murder Jews, but they were so blinded by political passion and ambition, murder became acceptable. They lost their humanity and the result was genocide.

When we teach students about the Holocaust, we try to empower them to think about the choices they make, about the leaders they follow and about the way they treat others. We encourage them to think about the kind of world they want to live in and the role that they will play in creating it.

All of the work of the Museum is dependent on the dedication of a small group of volunteers and Holocaust survivors. They are the ones who year after year reach students and help them understand the importance of learning from the past. The success of the museum is due in very large part to their efforts.

Our Future

The Holocaust has universal implications. It is a timely warning in a world that seems to be growing more and more divided and hostile. The demand for Holocaust education is increasing because teachers and school administrators see it as the instrument needed to help students become thoughtful, responsible citizens.

Currently, the museum is too small to accommodate the number of students who are served. It must be expanded to meet new needs. We need more space, better technology and a new and broader approach, all of which is in my opinion attainable in the near future.

I am leaving my position in great hands. The new director, Sharon Mullen, has the qualifications necessary to guide the museum into the future.

I am grateful for the opportunity that I have had to serve the Jewish community, to work with students and their teachers and mostly to be involved in work that has given meaning and purpose to my life.

This article and photo appear courtesy of the Jewish Journal of San Antonio. Thanks to the Journal and editor Leslie Komet Ausburn.