Bridges of Memory will bring together recent and long-established ethnic, national, and religious communities in the Twin Cities (Armenian, Jewish, Hmong, Khmer, and Somali among others) facilitating constructive conversations and allowing them to draw upon their respective capacities to address a history of mass violence, communal memory, and resilience.
Each spring, the Human Rights Program and the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies celebrates the tremendous work of University of Minnesota - Twin Cities undergraduate students in human rights by presenting the Inna Meiman Human Rights Award and the Sullivan Ballou Award.
The center organizes lectures, conferences and symposia that feature leading scholars, practitioners, and activists, who provide critical analysis and tools to understand and effectively address the causes, impacts, and legacies of the Holocaust, genocides, and incidents of mass violence.
Staff, faculty and students affiliated with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota grieve the passing of Fern Badzin.
The Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program "A Bridge to History" is accepting applications from faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students for 2019.
Join us for the Kristallnacht commemorative event, "Piercing the Silence: Holocaust Memories and Lessons in Concert" - reflections on witnessing from a second generation Holocaust survivor...
The election of Donald Trump could be described as both a symptom and cause of an uninhibited public discourse based on cultural/nationalist racism at best, biological racism at worst. In a...
Anselm House, the Department of African American and Africa Studies, and the University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies invite you to the 24th annual Holmer Lecture...
2018 marked the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of Israel and the creation of the UN Universal Declaration of Human...
