The new USC Shoah Foundation IWitness site offers educational resources, witness testimonies and practical tools to build resilience to antisemitism and learn about its contemporary manifestations, origins, evolution and history, including the history of the Holocaust.
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This book features insights from Holocaust education at QCC, as well as four approaches to designing innovative pedagogies for college students. Click here for the library guide.
Explore online teaching guides, databases, classroom materials, and survivor testimonial archives from leading Holocaust institutions.
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Click here for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s recommendations for teaching and learning about the Holocaust.
Explore resources about anti-racism education and the history of the civil rights movement, including teaching guides, books, and films, written by leading African American museums, human rights organizations, scholars, and activists.
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The 2021-22 colloquium explores the gradual and subtle processes of liberty and loss, the processes that constitute transformation from the state of incarceration to one of liberation or freedom, and the civic and pedagogical implications resulting from such an inquiry. Click here to watch the recorded events.
The 2020-21 colloquium focused on global constructions of concentration camp systems and the challenges that they present while highlighting acts of resistance. Click here to watch the events.
The 2019-20 colloquium focused on myriad forms of opposition and resistance to right-wing authoritarian movements and regimes around the world, including artistic activity and public protest. Click here to watch the events.
The 2018-19 colloquium and related exhibition and library guide introduced audiences to histories of indigenous people on this continent and the concept of “Survivance.” Click here to watch the events.
The 2017-18 colloquium and accompanying library guide used a social psychological lens to evaluate the way that dominant institutions and situational factors impacted the behaviors (or passivity) of individual bystanders and larger communities. Click here to watch the events.
The 2016-17 colloquium and accompanying library guide explored the genocides that create refugee populations, as well as the challenges facing refugee populations as they seek to find asylum in countries and communities that are often resistant to accepting them. Click here to watch the events.
The 2015-16 colloquium and library guide focused on how gender structures and mediates experiences of mass violence and genocide as well as how attention to gender can help to predict, prevent, and reconcile mass violence and genocide. Click here to watch the events.
The 2014-15 colloquium and library guide incorporated students’ research and responses to genocide (and organized hate) through work with scholars, Holocaust survivors, workshops, an exhibit, and recital. Click here to watch the events.
Along with Holocaust survivors who gave personal testimony, the 2013-14 colloquium and accompanying library guide provided an interdisciplinary perspective to help students understand the past and make connections to the world that they know. Click here to watch the events.
In honor of International Roma Day on April 8, 2021, the Harriman Institute and the Roma Peoples Project at Columbia University and the Kupferberg Holocaust Center brought together top Roma scholars in the academy, advocates, and practitioners who are working to advance the human rights and dignity of Roma people throughout the Balkans.
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Countering Holocaust Distortion
Over the last few years there has been a shocking increase in efforts to minimize the impact of the Holocaust and downplay the crimes of the Nazi regime and its collaborators in both public and political discourse. This trend, in which Holocaust distortion is becoming more prominent, erodes our understanding of the historical truth of the Holocaust and allows for antisemitism to inch towards the mainstream. Click here for a 12 minute video and panel discussion featuring experts talking about what Holocaust distortion is and what you can do about it.