Recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Honoring the survivors and concentration camp liberators who call South Carolina home.

Scott Auspelmyer is the Executive Director of the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust.  He is a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teaching Fellow who also has 19 years of experience teaching high school social studies in South Carolina and was previously recognized as the National Council for the Social Studies Secondary Educator of the Year. He has presented at numerous state and national conferences and regularly conducts professional development training in Holocaust education for teachers in South Carolina and beyond.

 The South Carolina Council on the Holocaust (SCCH) was established in 1989 through a state legislative mandate. It operates in collaborative partnership with the state legislature and the SC Department of Education to promote awareness about the Holocaust and to honor the survivors and concentration camp liberators who call South Carolina home. The mission of the SCCH is to educate South Carolina teachers, students, and communities about the Holocaust through teaching, outreach, resources, and commemoration.