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.
RECENT EDUCATOR WORKSHOP:
Gender and Genocide: Uncovering Absent Narratives in Mass Violence and Human Rights Education
Date: June 25-28, 2018
Time: 9:00-4:30
Place: University of Minnesota West Bank
Cost: $100
CEUs: 30
Education Resources
- Genocide Education Outreach (GEO) Program
- CHGS image collections and public library collection (see open hours here)
- Teaching resources in the UMN Digital Conservancy
- Our growing list of subject-specific pages (not an exhaustive list of genocides):
Armenia
Cambodia
Holocaust
Native American
Rwanda - Minnesota Holocaust Survivor Testimony
- Teaching through Art
- 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."