Events

Making Global Connections

 Spring 2025 Programs

Holocaust Memory/Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration – In Person & Virtual
Annual Rabbi Isidoro Aizenberg Memorial Lecture
Raising the Stakes: Assessing the Impact of Rising Antisemitism on Holocaust Education
Thursday, April 24, 2025, at 6pm EDT
To attend on Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/yt5nn7nf
**To attend in person: https://khc-yh-april25.eventbrite.com

In commemoration of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, join us for a discussion about the implications for Holocaust education in the face of rising antisemitism, the impact of the October 7 terrorist attack, and the changing political landscape in the US and across the globe. Featuring Dr. Oren Stier, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Holocaust & Genocide Studies Program in the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. 

This event is organized by the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) is underwritten by the Yehoshua and Edna Aizenberg Holocaust Memorial Fund. It is co-sponsored by the Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center; the Reiff Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at Christopher Newport University; the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University; the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University; the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University; the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University; the Wagner College Holocaust Center; the Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College; the Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights at Rutgers University; and the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University.

**To attend in person: Registration ahead of time is required and visitors must show ID upon entering the campus at Queensborough Community College (QCC).

Special Partner Program – Virtual only
The Stories We Could Tell: Totalitarianism and Inhumanity in the Cambodian Genocide
Friday, April 25, 2025 at 3:00pm EDT
To attend on Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/wz2u8ypj

Drawing on his March 2016 role as an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia and many years of research in the country, Dr. Alex Hinton will explore the entanglement of totalitarianism and inhumanity in the Cambodian genocide – and how we can speak out against it. Hinton is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University. He is the award-winning author or editor of seventeen books, including, most recently, It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US (NYU, 2021), Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell, 2022), and Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side (Stanford, 2023).

This lecture is organized by the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University. It is co-sponsored by the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center; the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University; the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan University; the Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College; and the Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

POSTPONED: Human Rights and the Museum Series
From Częstochowa to Bayside: The Story of the KHC’s Torah Scroll
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled during the fall 2025 semester.