We support educators through workshops and institutes and by offering a myriad of resources for teaching age-appropriate lessons about the Holocaust and genocide.

Definition

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." 

Resources

• CHGS Genocide Education Outreach (GEO) Program
• CHGS Educational Materials (lesson plans, etc.) on the UMN Digital Conservancy
• 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