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Ursula Szczepinska is the Director of Education & Research at The Florida Holocaust Museum. Prior to joining The FHM 20 years ago, she worked at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and at the State Museum at Majdanek on site of the former Nazi concentration and death camp in Lublin, Poland. At both organizations, she worked with unpublished testimony, conducted research, and designed primary source-based resources. As the head of The FHM’s Education and Research Department, Ursula is responsible for teacher, student, and community education. Ursula teaches classes for educators and students K-12 and university level. She conducts archival and historical research for Holocaust survivors as well as for exhibitions and other projects at The FHM. Through research, she has helped survivors discover the fate of their loved ones during the Holocaust. She leads the “Shoah Victims’ Names Recovery Project” at The FHM in cooperation with Yad Vashem – she has collected and submitted over 700 Pages of Testimony from local survivors with data about victims who perished in the Holocaust. She received the 2011 “Outstanding Achievement Award” from the Florida Association of Museums for her contributions to Yad Vashem’s Shoah Victims’ Names Recovery Project. Ursula is the author of study guides and other educational resources. She interviews Holocaust survivors for The FHM’s archives and for the interactive Dimensions in Testimony project. Ursula presented at conferences organized by the Association of Holocaust Organizations, Florida Association of Museums, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Florida Council for the Social Studies, and others. In partnership with the Anti-Defamation League and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, she piloted in Florida the “Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust” program for police agencies across the state and has been teaching it since 2014.