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Friday, January 24, 2025

Holocaust Remembrance & Education at the Bildner Center

 

 

 

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27

 

This annual day of commemoration was designated by the United Nations in 2005. It marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, both honoring the victims of Nazism and supporting educational efforts to prevent future genocides.

 

The Herbert and Leonard Littman Families Holocaust Resource Center (HRC) at the Bildner Center has been a leader in Holocaust education for more than twenty years. The Center offers free professional development for public school teachers in Holocaust history and pedagogy, which impacts thousands of students in New Jersey and beyond. Learn more here.

 


 

Upcoming Mini-Course for Middle & High School Teachers

Israel and the Holocaust

Mondays, February 3, 10, & 24

 

Prof. Avinoam Patt, New York University, explores the uneasy relationship between two of the most significant events in modern Jewish history, the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel. The pedagogical portion of the program will be led by Colleen Tambuscio.

 

This free course includes lecture, dinner, pedagogical discussion, and a copy of Prof. Patt's book. Nine hours of continuing education credits earned.

 

Learn more and register here.

Mark the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

 

United States Holocaust

Memorial Museum 

Haunted by Auschwitz 80 Years Later

Monday, January 27, Noon

Watch via live-stream here.

 


 

Films Recommended by the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival (RUJFF):

The Last Days

Irena's Vow (RUJFF, 2023)

1945 (RUJFF, 2017) 

Films available on Prime Video and Netflix.

 


 

 

 

This volume is the product of a symposium at Rutgers in 2018, which included a concert. Listen to the music here.

Prof. Nancy Sinkoff and Colleague Prof. Halina Goldberg (Indiana University Bloomington) Win Book Award! 

Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery (Rutgers University Press, 2023), edited by Nancy Sinkoff and Halina Goldberg, has won the Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best-Edited Multi-Authored Scholarly Volume from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.

Read more here about this groundbreaking book on the diversity and vitality of urban Jewish identity and culture in Polish lands from the second half of the nineteenth century to the start of World War II.

Please consider a gift to support Holocaust education at Rutgers.

 

Holocaust education is mandated in the curriculum of all New Jersey public schools. The Bildner Center's free professional development programs for middle and high school teachers offer a toolbox of resources to help them teach this difficult topic. In light of the international rise in antisemitism, our work is more critical than ever before.

 

Thank you!