New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education
The New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education is a government agency of the U.S. state of New Jersey. Its core mission is to promote Holocaust education throughout the state by surveying, designing, encouraging and promoting Holocaust and genocide education and awareness. It also provides programs and coordinates events to memorialize The Holocaust.and provides curriculum Guides on a variety of Topics The Commission presents "The Hela Young Award" each year "to honor a person in recognition of outstanding work in the community for the improvement of human relations among diverse peoples and for the improvement  of the human condition." The award is named for Hela Yungst, a former television entertainer and beauty pageant winner, and past president of the Commission. In 2016 Paul B.Winkler died. He had been the executive director of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education since 1975.