Deanne Comer

Deanne Scherlis Comer received a B.S. in Education from Temple University and has pursued graduate work in Humanistic Education. She served as an assistant coordinator for the First International Conference on Teaching the Holocaust held in Philadelphia in the early 1970s and as a trainer for the World of Difference Program of the Anti-Defamation League.

She served as President of the Eleanor Roosevelt Chapter of the American Jewish Congress, as vice-chair of the Youth Symposium on the Holocaust and as a board member of the Interfaith Council on the Holocaust. She taught for twenty five years in the Abington (PA) School District where she chaired the Holocaust Education Curriculum Committee. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Holocaust Education Council, has lectured extensively on teaching the lessons of the Holocaust  and has received numerous awards for her innovative work. Within Pennsylvania these include the state’s Holocaust Education Council Janusz Korczak Award for Teaching Excellence, House of Representatives and Senatorial Citations, and the Inter-Group Harmony Award from the Human Relations Council of Montgomery County. She is the writer/director of the four part DVD series: Voices of Holocaust History which was a selected entry for the 2008 New York and Los Angeles International Independent Film and Documentary Festival.

She served as co-chair of membership for JSPAN and as chair of the Ethnic Conflict Policy Center.