Holocaust & Genocide Education
We support educators through workshops and institutes and by offering a myriad of resources for teaching age-appropriate lessons about the Holocaust and genocide
EDUCATOR OPPORTUNITIES:
Educator Professonial Development Workshop:
Teaching About Genocide
Date: July 29 - August 2, 2019
Click Here for More Information.
Educator Professonial Development Workshop:
Teaching About Genocide
Date: July 29 - August 2, 2019
Click Here for More Information.
EDUCATOR OPPORTUNITY:
Genocide Education Outreach (GEO) Program
Community outreach project connecting educational
institutions with graduate students for guest lectures
or workshops on a topic matching community need.
Contact: call 612-624-6527 or email chgs@umn.edu
Genocide Education Outreach (GEO) Program
Community outreach project connecting educational
institutions with graduate students for guest lectures
or workshops on a topic matching community need.
Contact: call 612-624-6527 or email chgs@umn.edu
Education Resources
- CHGS image collections and public library collection (see open hours here)
- CHGS education resources in the UMN Digital Conservancy
- CHGS educator library hours: Spring 2019, Tuesdays 4:30-7:30pm (email chgs@umn.edu to schedule)
- Minnesota Holocaust Survivor Testimony
- Teachnig Genocide through Art and addressing Denial
- Our growing list of resource guides
- Resources from The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Definitions:
We define the Holocaust as the destruction of six million European Jews by the Nazis
and their collaborators between 1933-1945.
We draw on two definitions of genocide:
1. As established by the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide: Genocides are "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in
part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group."
2. As defined by historical sociologist Helen Fein: "Genocide is a series of purposeful
actions by a perpetrator(s) to destroy a collectivity through mass or selective murders
of group members and suppressing the biological and social reproduction of the collectivity."
We define the Holocaust as the destruction of six million European Jews by the Nazis
and their collaborators between 1933-1945.
We draw on two definitions of genocide:
1. As established by the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide: Genocides are "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in
part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group."
2. As defined by historical sociologist Helen Fein: "Genocide is a series of purposeful
actions by a perpetrator(s) to destroy a collectivity through mass or selective murders
of group members and suppressing the biological and social reproduction of the collectivity."