Holocaust Resource Center Events
Upcoming Events
International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Quarantining Hate
Wednesday, Janurary 29, 2025 at 4:30pm EST via Zoom
Join the HRC, the Diversity Council, and the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ in this commemorative lecture by Kerrie Taber as she describes her project into her family's history and how she uses her research to show what can happen when society pushes back against hate.
Diversity Council General Assembly Meeting Featuring Author Lee Hawkins
February 4, 2025 at 4:30pm in the Miron Student Center, Room 228
Lee Hawkins is an American investigative journalist and author who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. His most recent work documents the lives of Black American descendants of slavery and Jim Crow survivors, exploring the intergenerational impact of racial violence and racism on their families. Participants will receive curriculum resources to help implement Lee’s work into the classroom. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
Hour of Need
Rescue in Denmark: Teaching about the Holocaust through Graphic Novels
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 4:30pm EST via Zoom
Please join the Holocaust Resource Center and New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education for a workshop, where participants will explore factors that led to widespread resistance in Denmark and learn how to bring Hour of Need: The Daring Escape of the Danish Jews during World War II into the classroom.
Teaching Holocaust Herstories: Mothers, Daughters, Fighters, Survivors
Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 4:30pm EST via Zoom
Please join the Holocaust Resource Center for our Women's History Month program featuring Dr. Lauren Granite from Centropa.
Learn about how women's sex, societal roles, and assumptions about gender shaped their experiences during the Holocaust, and how a gender analysis can help educators and students identify social inequalities.
Yom HaShoah Commemoration
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 5:00pm EST via Zoom
Please join the Holocaust Resource Center for our annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration. Co-presented by the Holocaust Council at Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ and Saint Elizabeth University's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education.
This year's program is a film screening of Monument followed by a talkback with the filmmaker, Michael Turner. Turner is a grandchild of Holocaust survivors.