The Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies is pleased to offer curricular development grants for University of Minnesota system faculty for the 2021-22 academic year.

In his acclaimed memoir Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi recounts a recurring dream he and other inmates had in the Nazi death camp: that he returned home to his family and told them about the horrors he lived through, but nobody listened. Levi writes, “The person standing in front of me doesn’t stay to hear, turns around and goes away.”

The United States conducted more than hundred nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific....

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Explore databases and resources relevant to research in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. This guide is an in-depth listing of Holocaust and Genocide Studies resources available to students, faculty, and staff at the University of Minnesota (UMN). Some resources are also available to users not affiliated with UMN.

Prof. Shandler is Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. He has written several books on Holocaust remembrance and on Yiddish culture, including While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust, Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture, and Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors’ Stories and New Media Practices. His next book, Yiddish:Biography of a Language, will be published by Oxford University Press this fall.

Join us for a series of community dialogues and virtual educator workshops to learn about genocides from the experiences and perspectives of local survivors and survivor communities.

At the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, we are both deeply saddened and profoundly angered by the brutal, horrific murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police. In the face of the continued murder of Black people in Minnesota, across the country, and in many places around the world, we reaffirm our commitments to racial justice and equity.

Taylor Johnson, MFA graduate student in the Department of Art, minoring in Museum Studies will work as RA