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• CHGS to Host Symposium on the University During the Third Reich

  THE BETRAYAL OF THE HUMANITIES: THE UNIVERSITY DURING THE THIRD REICH
  Sunday, April 15 and Monday April 16, 2012

  The university is traditionally seen as a safeguard of the values of Western civilization. It stands as a beacon for such fundamental principles as critical thought, free inquiry and ethical research. Yet, history tells us that this was not always so. Under National Socialism in Germany (1933-1945), the universities and the academic disciplines themselves became in many cases all-too-eager accomplices in the perpetration of Nazi ideology. Not only did the normal administrative structure of the university become corrupted, but learning itself betrayed its own mission as prestigious disciplines propagated Nazi racial science and beliefs.

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• The International Human Rights Movement: A History

  Aryeh Neier
  February 28, 2012, 7:00 PM
  McNamara Alumni Center
  Maroon & Gold Room
  200 Oak Street SE, Minneapolis (East Bank)

  Aryeh Neier has spent more than a half-century promoting and protecting the human rights of others. Born in Nazi Germany and a refugee at the age of two, Neier knew about violence from his earliest days. A tireless advocate for improvements in human rights globally, Neier has conducted investigations of human rights abuses in more than forty countries. He has played a leading role in the establishment of the international criminal courts that have heralded a new era of international justice.

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• No Generation of Silence: American Jews and the Holocaust in the Post-War Era

  Hasia Diner, New York University
  Jewish Studies Community Lecture Series
  March 21, 2012 7:30 p.m.
  Temple Israel
  2324 Emerson Ave S, Minneapolis

  American Jews in the two decades after the end of World War II found many ways to make the tragedy that had engulfed their people in Europe at the hands of the German Nazis a part of their communal culture. The Holocaust loomed large for them. How did postwar American Jews experiment with language and ideas to keep alive the memories of those who had perished in Europe-- and use their memories to effect changes in the world of the late 1940s through the early 1960s?

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Community Events

• 2012 Holocaust & Jewish Resistance Teachers' Program

  A summer study program in Washington, DC, Poland, Germany and Israel
  for secondary school teachers.

  The Summer Seminar Program on Holocaust and Jewish Resistance was initiated by Vladka Meed in 1984. This year's program is scheduled for July 1-20, 2012. This seminar is for secondary school teachers who implement Holocaust studies in their classrooms. Our group visits historic sites and hears from survivors and prominent scholars.
  

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• Berlin Summer Academy: The Holocaust and Present-day Jewish Life in Germany

  July 15-22, 2012
  A summer study program in Berlin, Germany, for U.S. public secondary school teachers in cooperation with the Education Division of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
  

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• Yad Vashem International School for Holocaust Studies Eighth International Conference on Holocaust Education

  Telling the Story Teaching the Core: Holocaust Education for the 21st Century
  June 18-21, 2012
  

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