Genocide

Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide Stories of Resilience: Learning from Survivors of the Holocaust and the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda

By Ellen Resnek / Friday, September 20, 2024 / Comments Off on Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide Stories of Resilience: Learning from Survivors of the Holocaust and the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda

“Stories of Resilience: Learning from Survivors of the Holocaust and the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda”. Dr. Brown will focus on testimony excerpts of survivors who describe life after their traumatic […]

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Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide with Tali Nates

By Ellen Resnek / Wednesday, September 18, 2024 / Comments Off on Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide with Tali Nates

Join us on this transformative journey; let this series serve as your source of empowerment, inspiring our community to find their own light within the encompassing shadows. Testimonies of Light: […]

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Poland Personally 2025

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, August 20, 2024 / Comments Off on Poland Personally 2025
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Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide with Tali Nates and Asya Darbinyan

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, August 13, 2024 / Comments Off on Lessons in Resilience from the Holocaust and Genocide with Tali Nates and Asya Darbinyan

Join us on this transformative journey; let this series serve as your source of empowerment, inspiring our community to find their own light within the encompassing shadows. Asya Darbinyan: Executive […]

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Echoes of Silence and Sound at Grunewald Station Memorial by Adam Reinherz

By Ellen Resnek / Sunday, August 4, 2024 / Comments Off on Echoes of Silence and Sound at Grunewald Station Memorial by Adam Reinherz

Traversing crushed gravel generates noise. So does walking on a platform. Eyeing departure dates, destinations — Lodz, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz — and tallies doesn’t, but wind gusts and intermittent storms do, […]

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Reflecting on History: The Urgency of Combating Modern Antisemitism by Shira Hershenfeld

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, July 30, 2024 / Comments Off on Reflecting on History: The Urgency of Combating Modern Antisemitism by Shira Hershenfeld

Today we visited the memorial at the former site of Dachau Concentration Camp and the Munich Documentation Center for National Socialism. What strikes me the most is how so many […]

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Understanding Genocide: History, Causes, and Responses with Dr. Michael Berenbaum

By Ellen Resnek / Monday, July 22, 2024 / Comments Off on Understanding Genocide: History, Causes, and Responses with Dr. Michael Berenbaum

“Understanding Genocide: History, Causes, and Responses” is an in-depth seminar series led by Dr. Michael Berenbaum, a distinguished scholar in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. This series aims to provide a […]

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Understanding Genocide: History, Causes, and Responses with Dr. Michael Berenbaum

By Ellen Resnek / Monday, July 22, 2024 / Comments Off on Understanding Genocide: History, Causes, and Responses with Dr. Michael Berenbaum

“Understanding Genocide: History, Causes, and Responses” is an in-depth seminar series led by Dr. Michael Berenbaum, a distinguished scholar in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. This series aims to provide a […]

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A Surreal Journey to Auschwitz: Reflecting on Humanity’s Darkest Chapter by Josh Sektnan

By Sarah Grand / Friday, July 5, 2024 / Comments Off on A Surreal Journey to Auschwitz: Reflecting on Humanity’s Darkest Chapter by Josh Sektnan

Visiting Auschwitz was a surreal and profoundly moving experience. As the largest Nazi German concentration camp and, since 1942, also a mass extermination center for Jews, Auschwitz stands as a […]

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Describing the Indescribable: Reflections on Language and Historical Memory by Cynthia McGrae

By Sarah Grand / Wednesday, July 3, 2024 / Comments Off on Describing the Indescribable: Reflections on Language and Historical Memory by Cynthia McGrae

As an English teacher and a First Amendment professor, I spend a lot of time thinking about words.  In my role as a high school English teacher, I am constantly […]

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