UNI Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education

01/20/2023

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01/20/2023

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06/19/2020

https://www.jta.org/2020/06/18/global/at-a-german-train-station-a-unique-memorial-is-dedicated-to-jews-deported-to-their-death?utm_source=JTA_Maropost&utm_campaign=JTA_DB&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-20538-25216

Some 2,000 Jews were sent to Theresienstadt from the Wurzburg depot during the Holocaust.

04/16/2020

Each year since 2007, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education (CHGE) at the University of Northern Iowa, in collaboration with other organizations in Cedar Falls and Waterloo, has organized a Holocaust remembrance ceremony. Due to current restrictions on public gatherings during the Covid-19 pandemic, we plan to mark the 2020 Days of Remembrance (Sunday, April 19 through Sunday, April 26) in a different way.

This year is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the liberation of the camps and the defeat of N**i Germany and its allies. Our intention was to focus our ceremony (schedule for the evening of Thursday, April 23) on these two events. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has opened up new perspectives on what “community” means to us and how we preserve it when it is threatened; on our responsibilities toward the members of our local, national and global community; and on our individual and collective resilience and courage in meeting the challenges that threaten us. If it has been possible for this year’s gathering to take place, reflections on the pandemic, our responses to it and the perspectives it offers on the Holocaust would certainly have been part of the program.

We have created a Days of Remembrance 2020 Group on our page (facebook.com/unichge). Access to this Group, including permission to post items, is open to the public (subject, of course, to Facebook monitoring and moderation). We are posting and will continue to post items that would have been part of (or related to) the ceremony we had planned for this year, but we invite contributions from anyone, on any relevant topic and representing any constructive perspective, who wishes to participate in commemorating this year’s Days of Remembrance.

We invite you to post anything you may wish to share: a personal reflection, a quotation, a short reading (with or without commentary), an image, a prerecorded audio or video clip—any format, including previous Facebook posts, that can be posted on Facebook. Members of the clergy are invited to share sermons or other communications they have had with their congregations. Posts can be made anytime beginning tomorrow and through the end of day on Sunday, April 26. Go to our page (facebook.com/unichge), which has been reconfigured so that you can click on the Days of Remembrance 2020 Group immediately below the CHGE logo.

Please let your friends, acquaintances and colleagues know about this effort and encourage them to contribute to this community effort to honor the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, to pay tribute to those who fought N**i Germany and its allies, and to recognize the selfless efforts of medical corps, relief workers and others who worked to alleviate pain and suffering.

Thank you for your interest. Let me know if you have questions or suggestions. Most of all, stay well and stay connected.

Stephen J. Gaies
Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education
University of Northern Iowa

The CHGE aims to educate about the Holocaust and other genocides.

10/22/2019

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04/22/2019

New exhibit created by the UNI Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education, now at the Grout Museum of History & Science, Waterloo, through August 17.

04/22/2019

Tomorrow evening (April 23): 13th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony in the Cedar Valley, featuring child Holocaust survivor Harold Kasimow. This event is free and open to the public.

06/19/2018

This is what it means to "remember":

ROME (JTA)— Italy’s Jewish community condemned a call by the country’s hardline interior minister to take a census of Italy’s Roma, or Gypsy, population. The Union of Italian Jewish Communities, or UCEI, said in a statement issued Tuesday that the call by Matteo Salvini to create a “regist...

04/16/2018

Some information about Warren Rosenblum, our 2018 Norman Cohn Family Holocaust Remembrance and Education Lecture speaker on April 17:

Warren Rosenblum is Professor of History and Chair of the History, Politics, and International Relations Department at Webster University. He is the author of Beyond the Prison Gates: Punishment and Welfare in Germany, 1850-1933, which won the Baker-Burton Prize of the Southern Historical Association. He has also published essays on the history of disability, eugenics and euthanasia, and antisemitism in modern Europe. He is currently finishing a book about an anti-Semitic justice scandal in the Weimar Republic and is working on a major study of the treatment of the “feeble-minded” in modern Europe. Rosenblum serves on the Executive Committee of the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center in St. Louis and is a fellow of the Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at Webster. He was a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies in 2010-2011 and at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Fall 2017. He has been a visiting professor at SUNY-Binghamton, Bowdoin College, and Deep Springs College in California.

04/14/2018

https://www.jta.org/2018/04/12/news-opinion/united-states/22-us-millennials-havent-heard-not-sure-heard-holocaust-study-finds

(JTA) — Over a fifth of millennials in the United States have not heard of or are unsure if they have heard of the Holocaust, a study found. The survey, which was commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (also known as the Claims Conference), found that many America...