Mission

Activities & Resources

CHGS maintains an active calendar of events and outreach efforts. During a typical year the center is likely to be involved with the following activities.

Conducting workshops on the Holocaust and genocides for K-12 teachers
Hosting visiting scholars, writers and others who speak at public events on campus
Providing intellectual and material resources for other universities in Minnesota and neighboring states
Coordinating activities with other organizations, on and off campus, involving displaced local communities who have genocidal situations in their history, such as Native Americans, Cambodians, Sudanese, Rwandans, and Bosnians.
Consulting on the creation of related documentary programming, such as the Emmy-nominated "Armenian Genocide: 90 Years Later," co-produced with TPT public television
Presenting Holocaust and genocide-related art exhibitions, such as the ceramic work of survivor Daisy Brand at the Northern Clay Center in January 2006, and the paintings of survivor Fritz Hirschberger at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery in August 2006
Maintaining a vast library on the Holocaust that includes books, original sources, videotapes, and lists of Holocaust survivors and children of survivors, all of which are available to visiting researchers

Services for teachers

An important aspect of our work is helping K-12 teachers in Minnesota incorporate lessons about the Holocaust, world genocides and human rights issues into their curricula. We do this through workshops, providing speakers, sending out our traveling education trunks, and more. See Educational Resources for more on CHGS services to teachers.

Address: 760 Social Sciences, 267 19th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-624-0256
Fax: 612-626-9169
Email: chgs@umn.edu

The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer
Last modified on October 22, 2009