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Good things are in store for Florida Atlantic University.
It recently received the largest gift in the university’s history — $20 million. The gift from Kurt and Marilyn Wallach will create the Kurt and Marilyn Wallach Institute for Holocaust and Jewish Studies housed in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters.
The donation will be used in part for a building (or addition) on the Boca Raton campus that will be the hub for Holocaust, human rights and Jewish studies education programs. “We speak for those who cannot speak,” Kurt Wallach, a World War II veteran and Holocaust survivor, said in a press release. “We hope that through the education we can provide that lives will be saved and history will not be repeated.”
Also, the College of Arts and Letters recently announced a multi-million dollar gift from Arthur Gutterman to name the Arthur and Emalie Gutterman Family Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education on FAU’s Boca Raton campus.
The center prepares K-12 educators and support staff in Southeast Florida to implement Holocaust teaching. “I am happy to do my part to help continue the vital work of FAU’s Center that benefits teachers and students today, and now, for generations to come,” Gutterman explained in a press release.
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